2018 Membership Drive…

The OSI will launch our fourth annual Individual Membership Drive, coinciding with our 20th anniversary, Feb 3rd, 2018 and running through March 16th, 2018. Our membership drive goal is to sign up 2,398 members in celebration of our founding on 2/3/98 — “2,398 for 2/3/98” — see what we did there? 🙂 The membership drive will also run in parallel with our annual Board elections, with nominations opening on Feb 1st.

Please join as a new member today!

The Open Source Initiative® (OSI)

• California 501(c)3 non-profit, raising awareness and adoption of open source software (OSS) through advocacy, education and building bridges between communities.
• The pragmatic community organization that understands how developers, businesses, governments, and open source interact.
• Steward of the Open Source Definition, globally recognized body for approving OSS licenses.
• Protects and promotes open source software, development and communities.
• Champions software freedom in society through education, collaboration, and infrastructure.
• Prevents abuse of the ideals and ethos inherent to the open source movement.

See our about and history pages for more information.

Individual Membership

Membership provides several benefits to individuals, the OSI, and open source software. Only OSI Individual Members can vote for OSI Board Directors: they can even run for Director seats themselves. Individual Members are invited to join or create OSI sponsored Working Groups and Incubator Projects in various areas of open source advocacy and adoption. Individual Members are eligible for grants to attend conferences and meetings related to open source software on behalf of the OSI.

You can find out more about the benefits of becoming a Member of the Open Source Initiative and how to join, at: opensource.org/members

If we reach our goal of 2,398 new members, we’ll not only raise $95,920 to help us with our operations and community-based initiatives, we’ll also build an even stronger constituency to support our efforts to raise awareness about and adoption of not only the projects of our Affiliate members, but open source software, communities and development internationally.

Please support open source by joining today