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I am a candidate for the “Affiliate” seat in the 2025 #OpenSource Initiative (OSI) Board of Directors election.
I am running on a Shared Platform for OSI Reform with @richardfontana
You can read that shared platform here: https://codeberg.org/OSI-Reform-Platform/platform#readme
I will post news and updates about the campaign here and on this blog post (that will be updated regularly until the voting closes):
https://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2025/02/28/osi-board-election.html
@bkuhn @richardfontana Regarding item 2 of the proposal: I participated in the 'Consistency WG' which was chartered with reviewing the 130+ existing OSI-approved licenses to find attributes that were potentially non-OSD-compliant, or caused problems in other areas.
We spent quite a lot of our volunteer time doing this, including creating a document of recommendations to the board (which went so far as to propose creation of a 'v2' of the "license list" which formally recognized that many previously-approved licenses should not have been), but even as a member of that WG I have no idea what happened after that. It appears from my vantage point that our efforts were wasted.
Kevin, thanks for sharing this. I had heard vaguely about that but very glad to have this info. The good news is that the work need not start from scratch, it sounds like!