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9	9	**Why I'm running for election**
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11		-It's been a great privilege to serve on the OSI board over the past year. During that time I've served as the chair of the Membership Committee, as well as managing the Individual Membership Portfolio. As part of that, I've been working with Patrick Masson to establish a member login area on opensource.org, where members can track their membership status, available discounts (such as conference fee discounts on OSCON and LinuxCon), and update address or payment information. I also started and have been the board sponor of [[a new working group>>doc:Working Groups & Incubator Projects.entities-wg.WebHome]] looking into the IRS's apparent shift in attitude toward FLOSS non-profits. One year seems like barely enough time to get started on these initiatives and other work needed by the OSI, so I would like to volunteer for another 2 year term.
	11	+It's been a great privilege to serve on the OSI board over the past year. During that time I've served as the chair of the Membership Committee, as well as managing the Individual Membership Portfolio. As part of that, I've been working with Patrick Masson to establish a member login area on opensource.org, where members can track their membership status, available discounts (such as conference fee discounts on OSCON and LinuxCon), and update address or payment information. I also started and have been the board sponor of [[a new working group>>doc:Working-Groups-Incubator-Projects.entities-wg.WebHome]] looking into the IRS's apparent shift in attitude toward FLOSS non-profits. One year seems like barely enough time to get started on these initiatives and other work needed by the OSI, so I would like to volunteer for another 2 year term.
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13	13	I believe that licensing will continue to be absolutely essential to the future of open source. I agree with the concerns over license proliferation that started in the mid-2000's (I was one of the active amplifiers of the meme), and I'm pleased that the flood of new licenses we feared has been prevented, focusing people down on a few "standard" choices. But at the same time, I fully expect the next 30 years of international law to be every bit as interesting as the past 30 years, which means that open source licensing must continue to evolve with the times. I've been thrilled to see efforts like Richard Fontana's copyleft-next, that re-examine our base assumptions and actively look to the future. It's not something that needs radical change, just a steady, thoughtful eye to the future.
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