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Join Us In New York City
In conjunction with the New York City open source community, the OSI Board of Directors will be hosting a meet-up to discuss “Careers in Open Source”. If you’re an OSI member, we hope you can join us.
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Powering Potential Expands to Peru
The Open Source Initiative’s first African Affiliate, Powering Potential Inc. (PPI), is pleased to announce a pilot program expansion in Peru of their award-winning solar-powered Raspberry Pi computer labs already enhancing education throughout rural Tanzania, Africa. PPI’s pilot project is placing a computing lab at the San Francisco Rio Itaya School, located in the Amazon…
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ClearlyDefined, one year after
It’s been just over a year since the Open Source Initiative approved the proposal for ClearlyDefined to be a project under its organization. So far the project has successfully built a robust software system in collaboration with lots of folks from the community. We wanted to tell you more about what we’ve built so far…
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March 2019 License-Review Summary
In March, the License-Review mailing list saw the retraction of the SSPL from review, and discussed a set of GPLv3 Additional Terms. The License-Discuss list (summarized at ) was far more active. Among other things, it discussed Van Lindberg’s upcoming Cryptographic Autonomy License, and saw extensive discussion about the license review process: whether the conduct…
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March 2019 License-Discuss Summary
In March, the License-Discuss mailing list discussed: * the Cryptographic Autonomy License * its interactions with the GDPR * how public performance applies to software * the License-Review process * views on tone and conduct on the list * the list’s role in the license review process * problems with email, and alternative tools *…
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Run-off Election Results
After a tie in the 2019 OSI Board of Directors election between Christine Hall, and Mariatta Wijaya, a run-off election was required. The run-off election ran from March 18th, through March 25th, 2019, resulting in a victory for Christine Hall, by a slim margin of only two votes. Christine Hall, 96 Mariatta Wijaya, 94 Christine’s…
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@osi Just posted my answer to the OSI Governance Survey.In short: the OSI Board is required to have clear and…