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Google Open Source @opensource.google · 24/09/2026

This Week in Open Source #17 🌐 💸 @seldo.com on $1B+ OSS spend & royalties ⚖️ @acm.org on $8.8T OSS value ⚡ @lfenergy.bsky.social 2–5x grid ROI 🛡️ AI security post-mortems 🌕 @nasa.gov.web.brid.gy & IBM lunar AI 🗓️ 8 fall events (@linuxfoundation.org @cncf.bsky.social) 🔗 goo.gle/twios-17

Slide 01/04 of a Google Open Source carousel: "THIS WEEK IN OPEN SOURCE #17 // SEPT 24, 2026: Sustaining an $8.8T Ecosystem: Registry Royalties, Grid ROI, & Hardened AI Supply Chains." Subtitle: "5 essential open source reads + 8 fall community conferences across supply-chain economics, AI post-mortems, and open science." Features a portrait of author Daryl Ducharme (Developer Relations Engineer, Google OSPO), summary bullets on 5 curated reads ($8.8T value, $1B+ spend, 2–5x grid ROI, 30+ lunar layers) and 8 fall conferences, plus a spotlight banner: "FEATURED TALK // MCP DEV SUMMIT TORONTO (OCT 6, 2026): Tag-Team Transmission: Navigating A2A and MCP for Optimum Orchestration."

Slide 02/04: "OSS ECONOMICS & INFRASTRUCTURE ROI: Where the Money Goes vs. Where the Value Lives." Three metric cards: (1) READ 01 // LAURIE VOSS (SELDO.COM): "$1B+ Spend vs. $0 to Maintainers — Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to." Enterprises spend >$1B/yr on supply-chain mirrors and security scanners; Voss proposes commercial package registries pay automatic dependency-tree royalties. (2) READ 02 // ACM TECHNOLOGY POLICY COUNCIL: "$8.8 Trillion Global Demand Value — AI Is Reshaping OSS & Straining Sustainability." Funding must sustain human governance and consensus-building that AI cannot replace. (3) READ 03 // LF ENERGY FRAMEWORK: "2x – 5x Greater Net Grid Value — Proving Open Source ROI for Regulated Utilities."

Slide 03/04: "AI POST-MORTEMS, LUNAR DATA & EVENTS: Hardened Supply Chains & Fall 2026 Community Radar." Top cards: (1) READ 04 // TIME (Y. BENGIO): "AI Security Post-Mortems" — treating autonomous agent breaches (Hugging Face & repo social-engineering) as engineering post-mortems to harden open supply chains. (2) READ 05 // NASA & IBM RESEARCH: "30+ Lunar Data Layers" — open-source Lunar Foundation Model and harmonized ML-ready dataset unifying 30+ instrument layers. Bottom terminal ("fall_2026_conferences.sh — 8 Upcoming Community Events"): Oct 05–06 MCP Dev Summit Toronto (Daryl Ducharme: A2A + MCP Oct 6), Oct 07–09 OSS Europe (Prague), Oct 11–14 Community Over Code (Glasgow), Oct 19–20 All Things Open (Raleigh), Oct 28–29 GitHub Universe (SF), Nov 04–05 OSFF NYC, Nov 09–12 KubeCon NA (Salt Lake City), Nov 13–14 SFSCON (Bolzano).

Slide 04/04: "COMMUNITY & ECOSYSTEM // @OPENSOURCE.GOOGLE: Built With the Global Open Source Community." Box 1 ("FEATURED AUTHORS, FOUNDATIONS & CONFERENCES") lists Bluesky handles: Laurie Voss (@seldo.com), ACM (@acm.org), @linuxfoundation.org, @lfenergy.org, @apache.org, @cncf.io, @nasa.gov, IBM Research, @allthingsopen.org, @sfscon.it, and MCP Dev Summit. Box 2 ("FALL 2026 COMMUNITY CONFERENCES & ROADMAP") lists Oct 5–9 (MCP Dev Summit Toronto & OSS EU), Oct 11–20 (Community Over Code & All Things Open), Oct 28–Nov 5 (GitHub Universe & OSFF NYC), and Nov 9–14 (KubeCon NA & SFSCON). CTA banner: "Read All 5 Deep Dives & 8 Fall Event Links — ↑ Link in post above: https://goo.gle/twios-17."

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