OSI Emeritus Members

OSI's Emeritus Members are a group of distinguished people who have served the OSI in the past and continue to support the global open source community. Listed in order of departure from the board, except that the President Emeritus is listed first.

Emeritus Members of the OSI Board

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

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.

Ian Murdock

Tim Sailer

Chip Salzenberg

Brian Behlendorf

L. Peter Deutsch

Guido van Rossum

Chris DiBona

Joichi Ito

Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana

Matt Asay

Raj Mathur

Bruno Souza

Ken Coar (PGP key)

Rishab Aiyer Ghosh

Nnenna Nwakanma

Danese Cooper

Russell Nelson

Michael Tiemann

Andrew Oliver

Mike Godwin

Alolita Sharma

Fabio Kon

Emeritus Board Observers

Zak Greant

Bdale Garbee

Dr. Ernest Prabhakar

Emeritus Legal Counsel

Larry Rosen

Larry served for many years as general counsel and secretary. He educated us on many issues of trademark, copyright, patent, and contract law.

Laura Majerus

Laura Majerus worked at Fenwick & West when she was counsel for OSI. She is now an in-house lawyer at Google.