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Congrats to Michael Tiemann

DrErnie — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:06:13 +0000

I wanted to give a quick shout out to our President, who was just listed as one of eWeek's Top Ten Open-Source Business Influencers. Wish they could've gotten a better picture, though...

Announcement: Major Restructuring of OSI Mailing Lists

DrErnie — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:41:23 +0000

Dear OSI Community,

As part of our ongoing effort to improve transparency and encourage participation, the Open Source Initiative is announcing a major restructuring of our public mailing lists, effective immediately. Moving forward, OSI's public discussions of Open Source issues will be concentrated on three major mailing lists:

New Mailing Lists and Charters

DrErnie — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:26:26 +0000

Hi everyone,

As promised, we've dramatically expanded and rechartered the OSI mailing lists. In particular, we have split license review and general OSI issue discussions out from "license-discuss" list, to allow the latter to focus on maintaining the new Licensing FAQ.

We continue to work on several other process and website improvements. Stay tuned!
-- Ernie P.
OSI Board Observer

New Code of Conduct

DrErnie — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:24:32 +0000

Since there has been some confusion as of late, I've posted an updated Code of Conduct. Hopefully this (along with planned charter revisions) will improve our overall mailing list climate.