Vision

Mission

Protect and promote open source software, development and communities, championing software freedom in society through education, collaboration, and infrastructure, stewarding the Open Source Definition (OSD), and preventing abuse of the ideals and ethos inherent to the open source movement.

Top Goals for the Year

• Improve license review process:
  • Establish project/program manager role
  • Document how the process works
• Establish sustainable capacity for managing infrastructure and critical resources.
• Improve efficiency/automation so we can scale
  • Replace several general mailing lists with an AskBot instance
  • Explore options to automate communications in 2017-2018 communications plan
  • Experiment with discount codes, sharing OSI membership to members of Affiliates

May

June

July

August

September

• Make go/nogo call on whether to hold face-to-face meeting in November (Board)

October

November

• Face-to-face Board Meeting
• Discuss plan for 20th anniversary celebration (Board)
• Form Elections Committee for 2018 (Board)
• Kick off end-of-year fundraising drive (Communications, Fundraising)

December

• Review voting system and ensure no changes are needed (Infrastructure, Elections Committee)
• Finalize list of individual and affiliate seats open in 2018 (Elections Committee)
• End-of-year fundraising drive (Communications, Fundraising)

January

• Announce schedule of upcoming elections and seats available
  • Announce gap assessment of organizational capacity
  • Push candidate profile template to slate
• Kick off membership drive, in advance of election (Membership)

February

• Open and complete election nomination period
• Decision on Advocacy Director

March

• Open and complete election voting period (Elections Committee, Communications)

April

• Elected board members take seats April 1, 2018
• Orient new board members (Board, Patrick)