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.
Emeritus Members of the OSI Board
- Eric S. Raymond - Co-founder (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
- 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.
- Asay, Matt
- Behlendorf, Brian
- Bryant, Deborah
- Coar, Ken (PGP key)
- Cooper, Danese
- DiBona, Chris
- Deutsch, Peter L.
- Fogel, Karl
- Fontana, Richard
- Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer
- Godwin, Mike
- Gune, Harshad
- Hall, Christine
- Hawthorn, Leslie
- Ito, Joichi
- Jagielski, Jim
- Kon, Fabio
- Mathur, Raj
- Michlmayr, Martin
- Milinkovich, Mike
- Murdock, Ian
- Nelson, Russell
- Nwakanma, Nnenna
- Oliver, Andrew
- Phipps, Simon
- Sailer, Tim
- Salzenberg, Chip
- Sharma, Alolita
- Smith, Carol
- Souza, Bruno
- Tagliamonte, Paul
- Tiemann, Michael
- van Rossum, Guido
- Vignoli, Italo
- Villa, Luis
- Wasserman, Tony
- Weerawarana, Sanjiva
- Zacchiroli, Stefano
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.