Bryant osi talk summit dc

The Evolution Starts Now

Deb Bryant Board Director

Open Source Initiative

Presented to the

Open Source Community Summit

May 10, 2013

OSI’s Starting Point

•OSI founded 1998 by key figures in free and open source software

•Steward of the Open Source Definition

•Making open source licenses simpler for developers and businesses

www.opensource.org

Context

• Ten Board Members

• Infrastructure = 4 board + 3 volunteers

• No staff

• funding approx. $25k per annum through 2012

Day to Day

Kindly manage...

• global help desk for disenfranchised software downloaders (answering all email even if misdirected)

• requests to participate in surveys/studies/class papers exceed capacity

Day to Day

Responsive to OSI Public Facing List:

• Requests for resources, contacts, project info, speakers

• Public input for content amendments

• Trademark and Legal alerts

• General List Moderation

Month to Month

• Board legal & fiscal

• Represent OSI community interests

• Membership outreach

Missed Opportunities

• Documentation & other valuable educational content are in short supply on site

Over 10 million unique visits to opensource.org less than 15% return

The OSI Mission: More than Licenses

"to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community.”

Best achieved through broader participation and membership engagement

• OSI to date has been a Board-only entity

• Moving to a member-led governance

• Members will:– decide how OSI should operate– build education initiatives

• – use OSI as a policy venue– co-ordinate locally and globally over initiatives

• Board will:– Facilitate these actions with the lightest touch – Represent Members and be elected by them – Prevent regulatory capture and strategy drift

Evolution

OSI Membership Programs Give Voice to a World of Stakeholders

• Affiliate Members

Non Profit Organizations with a shared interest and support for free software

• Individual Members

Free Software enthusiasts who want to show their support Free Software

• Corporate Members

A future program to allow commercial interest a balanced opportunity to support free software (winter 2012)

New

OSI Membership Programs Give Voice to a World of Stakeholders

• Affiliate Members

Non Profit Organizations with a shared interest and support for free software

• Individual Members

Free Software enthusiasts who want to show their support Free Software

• Corporate Donors

2013: Companies Step Up & Contribute>

Corporate feedback; support without

governance role

Individual Membership

opensource.org/join

licensed to drive & resource priorities

Board of Directors

Individual Member Election

July 2013

OSI board of directors May 8, 2013

Google Offices, Washington, D.C.

OSI Affiliates

More EducationMay 9

Open Source License Clinic

Library of Congress

Executive PanelIDA, CENDI, OSI, Red Hat,

Eclipse Foundation

Education Gap• Study

scanned 28% of github repository

• Only 14.9% identified license in top level directory

• 28% buried license data in “readme” file

• “GPL - but for non-commercial use only"

Source: Aaron Williamson,

comments 4.18.3013

Why Not?

Send Reinforcements

• Will hire first employee by July of 2013

• General manager with a first priority to our membership needs

Demystifying Licensing

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

potential project parters

BrazilGermany!Italy!India!Japan!Malaysia!Spain!Sweden!Venezuela

Government-Funded Centers

also known as “Competency Centers” Why not US?

Thanks!

Deb Bryant Open Source Initiative

Open Source Community Summit

May 10, 2013

More information?

Deborah Bryant [email protected]

opensource.org

Mark Prutsalis ofSahana Foundation at

First International Crisis CongressWashington, D.C. USA

• Additional Resources & references

• OSI web site http://opensource.org

• GitHub License Study:

• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/18/github_licensing_study/

• License choosers:

• http://www.tldrlegal.com/

• http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/apps/licdiff/

Unconference!session pitches

Open Source Community Summit

May 10, 2013