OSI Board of Directors

The Board of Directors of OSI consists of the following people (in alphabetical order of last name, except the OSI president is listed first):

Simon Phipps - President

Now the principal of open source management consulting firm Meshed Insights, computer industry veteran Simon Phipps has engaged at a strategic level in the world's leading technology companies. He has worked in roles such as field engineer, programmer and systems analyst, as well as run a software publishing company. He worked with OSI standards in the 80s, on collaborative conferencing software in the 90s, and helped introduce both Java and XML at IBM. He takes an active interest in Free and Open Source software, serving at OpenSolaris, OpenJDK and OpenSPARC as well as at the Open Source Initiative, and is a widely read thought-leader. In mid-2000 he joined Sun Microsystems where he helped pioneer Sun's employee blogging, social media and community engagement programmes. In 2005 he was appointed Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems, co-ordinating Sun's extensive participation in Free and Open Source software until he left in 2010. In that role he oversaw the conversion to Free software of the Java platform, Solaris UNIX, the SPARC architecture and the rest of Sun's portfolio, all under open source licenses. He holds a degree in electronic engineering and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and Chartered Engineer. His personal home page and blog is http://www.webmink.com

Deborah Bryant

Deborah Bryant brings to the OSI board a perspective from a decade of work focused on the adoption and use of open source software and open development models in the public sector spanning private and public industry and academia, following a decade in start-ups and management the high tech industry. She created the public sector program at Oregon State University's Open Source Lab (OSUOSL), founded and produced the annual Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) from 2005-2011. Her experience in government includes five years in state government includes a stint the IT Consultant to the Oregon Legislature, later as Oregon's Deputy State CIO and she also served a four year term in public office as an elected official in rural costal Oregon. She's passionate about open and transparent government and the use of open source as an essential tool to support those goals, and likes to say she uses her knowledge of bureaucracy for good, and not evil. Deborah serves on numerous boards and councils with public trust agendas and an emphasis on open source as enabling technology. You can follow her on Twitter @debbryant.

Karl Fogel - Treasurer

Karl Fogel is an open source software developer, author, and advocate. In 1995, he and Jim Blandy co-founded Cyclic Software, which provided commercial support for Concurrent Versions System (CVS). He is the author of "Open Source Development With CVS" (Coriolis OpenPress, 1999) and "Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project" (O'Reilly Media, 2006), the latter based partly on his experiences in the Subversion project from 2000-2006. He has worked at CollabNet, Google, Canonical, O'Reilly Media, and Code for America / Civic Commons, all as an open source collaboration specialist, and is now a founding partner at Open Tech Strategies, LLC, where he helps organizations launch and engage with open source projects. His personal home page is red-bean.com/kfogel.

Harshad Gune

Harshad Gune teaches computer science at the Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research (SICSR) in Pune, India. His primary experience with Open Source is as as educator. He has organized an annual FOSS conference, GNUnify since 2003 and helped promote FOSS technologies in India as well as support the FOSS community to grow stronger. The conference has grown to unite the FOSS community in India. As an active member of the Pune Linux Users Group (PLUG), Harshad has worked with others to educate students with FOSS software on computers, and has helped the industry learn more about the power of Linux through participation in IT trade shows and holding workshops.

Jim Jagielski

Jim Jagielski has been hacking and contributing to Open Source since long before it was even called that. Jim is best known for his deep, long-term involvement in open source and with the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Within the ASF, which he co-founded, Jim is an active, core developer in numerous projects, including Apache Tomcat, Apache APR, and Apache HTTPd, in which he is the longest active committer within that project. He also serves on the board of directors of the ASF, a position he has held since its inception. At the ASF he has served as EVP/Secretary for 8 years, Chairman for 3 years and presently serves as President. He is also on the board of directors with the Outercurve Foundation. Over his career, Jim has served as CTO for Zend Technologies and Covalent Technologies and as Chief Open Source Officer, Principal Software Engineer for VMware/SpringSource and is currently Sr Consulting Software Engineer for Red Hat working under the office of the CTO. He founded jaguNET Access Services, a web solutions company and he also was a manager and engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. He has spoken and presented at numerous conferences and seminars, and is a sought after resource by reporters and analysts regarding Apache and open source in general. He is also a noted author, having written numerous articles, including a monthly section in several magazines. Previously, he was also editor of the Apache section on Slashdot. He still foundly remembered in some circles as the editor of the A/UX FAQ.

Dr. Martin Michlmayr - Secretary

Dr. Martin Michlmayr has been involved in various open source software projects for well over 10 years. He used to be the Volunteer Coordinator for the GNUstep Project, acted as Publicity Director for Linux International and served as the leader of the Debian project. In the two years as the leader of Debian, Martin represented the project and performed important organizational and coordination tasks within the project. Martin works for HP as an Open Source Community Expert and acts as the community manager of FOSSBazaar. Martin holds Master degrees in Philosophy, Psychology and Software Engineering, and earned a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Mike Milinkovich

Mike Milinkovich has been involved in the software industry for over almost thirty years, doing everything from software engineering, to product management to IP licensing. His primary experience in open source has been as the Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation since 2004. In that role he is responsible for supporting both the Eclipse open source community and its commercial ecosystem. Prior to joining Eclipse, Mike was a vice president in Oracle's development group. Other stops along the way include WebGain, The Object People, IBM, Object Technology International and Nortel. Mike earned his Masters of Science degree in Information and Systems Sciences and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Carleton University. He lives in Ottawa, Canada.

Bruno Souza

Bruno Souza is a Java Developer and Open Source Evangelist at Summa Technologies, and a Cloud Expert at ToolsCloud. Nurturing developer communities is a personal passion, and Bruno worked actively with Java, NetBeans, Open Solaris, OFBiz, and many other open source communities. As founder and coordinator of SouJava (The Java Users Society), one of the world's largest Java User Groups, Bruno leaded the expansion of the Java movement in Brazil.

Luis Villa

Luis Villa is a lawyer who has worked and volunteered in Open Source development since he was in college. Luis studied law at Columbia, where he graduated with honors, was Editor-in-Chief of the Science and Technology Law Review, and was awarded a prize for excellence in intellectual property studies. Before law school, Luis worked in software, including several years working on the GNOME Linux desktop at Ximian, later acquired by Novell. He also spent a year at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center as 'geek in residence', working on a variety of projects, including StopBadware.org and the h2o educational web software project. Luis's undergraduate education was at Duke University, where he majored in political science and computer science, and got his first experience as an open source maintainer by hacking on the legOS operating system for Lego Mindstorms.

Dr. Tony Wasserman

Anthony I. (Tony) Wasserman is a Professor in the Software Management MS program at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, and the Executive Director of its Center for Open Source Investigation (COSI), focused on evaluation and adoption of open source software. In 1980, as a Professor at UC San Francisco, he released the software for his User Software Engineering research project under a BSD open source license. Subsequently, as CEO of Interactive Development Environments (IDE), he incorporated some of that software in IDE's Software through Pictures multiuser modeling environment, released in 1984, making it among the very first commercial products to include open source software. After IDE, Tony was VP of Engineering for a dot-com, and later became VP of Bluestone Software, where his open source Total-e-Mobile toolkit allowed mobile devices to connect to JavaEE web applications. Tony is very active in the international open source research community, and served as General Chair of the 2009 Int'l.Conf. on Open Source Systems. He is on the Board of Advisors of Open Source for America, and was co-founder of the Business Readiness Rating project. Tony is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE. Tony has traveled to more than 50 countries and posts many of his travel photos on his Flickr page. His Twitter handle is twasserman.

You can send mail to the OSI board at osi at opensource.org.

OSI Legal Counsel

Mark Radcliffe - General Counsel

Mark Radcliffe is a partner with DLA Piper and he is resident in the firm's Silicon Valley office. He focuses on representing clients in intellectual property and finance matters. He has extensive experience helping companies identify, protect and exploit their IP, and he has worked with U.S.-based clients and large international companies. In 1997, the National Law Journal named Mr. Radcliffe one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in the United States. In 1998, Harvard Law School designated him a "Distinguished Alumni." Mr. Radcliffe was named in the International Whos Who of e-Commerce Lawyers (2nd Edition). He has spoken at major conferences and industry presentations, including OSBC and OSCON, about open source and other intellectual property issues. He earned a B.S. in Chemistry, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1981.

OSI Web Support Team

The OSI web support team includes members of the infrastructure committee. Special thanks Brian Behlendorf who has generously provided hosting services for OSI's website.

OSI Founders

Eric S. Raymond - Founder & President Emeritus (PGP key)

Eric designed the language and marketing tactics around which the OSI was formed. He and Bruce Perens co-founded the organization. Eric lives in Malvern, Pennsylvania, USA.

Bruce Perens - Co-Founder & Emeritus Board Member

Bruce Perens is a computer programmer and advocate in the open source community. He co-founded the OSI with Eric S. Raymond and architect of the Open Source Definition.

Other OSI Emeritus Members