Open Source Initiative

The organization was founded in late February 1998 by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, part of a group inspired by the Netscape Communications Corporation publishing the source code for its flagship Netscape Communicator product.

He co-founded the Open Source Initiative (OSI) with Eric S. Raymond.

It promotes the usage of Open Source Software.

The Open Source Initiative was founded in February 1998 to encourage use of the new term and evangelize open-source principles.

Raymond was president from its founding until February 2005, followed briefly by Russ Nelson and then Michael Tiemann.

He was a founding board member of the Open Source Initiative and briefly served as its president in 2005.

The group adopted the Open Source Definition for open-source software, based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines.

The Open Source Definition is a document published by the Open Source Initiative, to determine whether a software license can be labeled with the open-source certification mark.

Raymond was president from its founding until February 2005, followed briefly by Russ Nelson and then Michael Tiemann.

Michael Tiemann is vice president of open source affairs at Red Hat, Inc., and former President of the Open Source Initiative.

The organization was founded in late February 1998 by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, part of a group inspired by the Netscape Communications Corporation publishing the source code for its flagship Netscape Communicator product.

He co-founded the Open Source Initiative in 1998, taking on the self-appointed role of ambassador of open source to the press, business and public.

Both the modern free software movement and the Open Source Initiative were born from a common history of Unix, Internet free software, and the hacker culture, but their basic goals and philosophy differ.

Like many social movements, the free software movement has ongoing internal conflict between the many FOSS organizations (FSF, OSI, Debian, Mozilla Foundation, Apache Foundation etc.) and their personalities.

In May 2012, the new board elected Simon Phipps as president and in May 2015 Allison Randal was elected as president when Phipps stepped down in preparation for the 2016 end of his Board term.

Phipps was President of the Open Source Initiative until 2015 when he stepped down in preparation for the end of his Board term in 2016, and was re-elected in 2017 and re-appointed President by the Board in September 2017.

In May 2012, the new board elected Simon Phipps as president and in May 2015 Allison Randal was elected as president when Phipps stepped down in preparation for the 2016 end of his Board term.

She is currently a director of the Open Source Initiative and was its president between 2015 and 2017, taking over from and handing back to Simon Phipps.

In March 2011, he was elected to the Open Source Initiative board.

She was a board member at Open Source Initiative.

Both the modern free software movement and the Open Source Initiative were born from a common history of Unix, Internet free software, and the hacker culture, but their basic goals and philosophy differ.

People primarily known for their contributions to the consciousness of the programmer subculture of hackers include Richard Stallman, the founder of the free software movement and the GNU project, president of the Free Software Foundation and author of the famous Emacs text editor as well as the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), and Eric S. Raymond, one of the founders of the Open Source Initiative and writer of the famous text The Cathedral and the Bazaar and many other essays, maintainer of the Jargon File (which was previously maintained by Guy L. Steele, Jr.).

Karl Fogel is an author, software developer, Executive Director of copyright activist non-profit Question Copyright, and former board member of the Open Source Initiative where he served as the Board Treasurer.

Fabio Kon is a former board member of the Open Source Initiative and Full Professor of the Department of Computer Science of the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

A former Open Source Initiative board member, he is Founding International and Managing Editor of peer-reviewed journal First Monday, and Programme Leader of Free/Libre and Open Source Software at UNU-MERIT.

Andrew C. Oliver is a former board member of the Open Source Initiative, the founder of the Apache POI project, and former member of the Apache Software Foundation.

He served on the board of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) from March 2005 until April 2007.

He is a member of the board of directors of the Open Source Initiative, a Professor of Software Management Practice at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, and the Executive Director of the CMU Center for Open Source Investigation.

He is currently a member-elected director of the Open Source Initiative.

She is a former member of the board of the Open Source Initiative.

He is a visiting professor and lecturer at the University of Moratuwa and a board alumnus of the Open Source Initiative.

Later in February 1998, Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond founded an organization called Open Source Initiative (OSI) "as an educational, advocacy, and stewardship organization at a cusp moment in the history of that culture."

In 2011, Jagielski was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Open Source Initiative.

He was a director of the Open Source Initiative from 2014 to 2017 and is currently a member of Free Software Foundation's High Priority Projects committee.