Submitted by Michael Tiemann on Thu, 2007-12-20 07:17
Most of you know me as President of the Open Source Initiative, but I am also Chair of the Fundraising Committee. Over the years we have raised monies large and small from companies large and small, public and private, and we have had great participation from individual donors as well. In fact, this year was probably a record in terms of the total number of different people supporting the OSI--which is cause alone to celebrate.
However, as a 501(c)3 organization with no endowment on which to draw interest from, fundraising is something that we must always do in order to fund our operations and expenses. In 2007 we:
- Lauched our new website (approx 200K hits per month)
- Posted a new Terms of Service
- Seated a new Board
- Discussed and approved several licenses
- Discussed and rejected/deferred a few licenses
- Served our mission of education and advocacy via publication of blogs and articles on the website
- Served our mission of education and advocacy by attending and presenting at a number of Open Source conferences around the world
- Established new policies for license discuss
- Unblocked a large backlog of minutes