Wiki source code of Luke Faraone, 2019
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| 1 | [[image:ShPg6KHQ_400x400.jpg||alt="Photograph of Luke Faraone from 2014. On a blue background, shows the subject wearing a dark-blue hooded sweater." style="float: right;" width="200"]] | ||
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| 3 | = About me = | ||
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| 5 | [[Twitter>>url:https://twitter.com/lfaraone]] | [[GitHub>>url:http://github.com/lfaraone]] | [[Debian packages>>url:https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=lfaraone]] | ||
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| 7 | I'm **Luke Faraone** (they/them), a software engineer and [[Debian ftpmaster>>url:https://ftp-master.debian.org]]. | ||
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| 9 | I've passionately advocated for free and open source software for over 10 years. I first meaningfully engaged with the free software community in 2007 at the encouragement of my then-[[secondary-school computer science teacher>>url:http://elkner.net/]], starting out by helping with QA for the [[One Laptop per Child project>>url:http://laptop.org]]. Shortly thereafter, I worked to maintain the spin-off [[Sugar Labs>>url:http://sugarlabs.org]]' project infrastructure, and became a Debian and [[Ubuntu developer>>url:https://launchpad.net/~~lfaraone]]. | ||
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| 11 | My day job is in computer security, but I also [[help manage my company's open source programmes>>url:https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2017/12/evolution-open-source-dropbox/]], and was one of the founding members of the [[TODO Group>>url:https://todogroup.org]], a Linux Foundation project to help companies be better free software users and contributors. | ||
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| 13 | As a Debian FTP team member since 2012, I'm intimately familiar with the details of license review, and at the same time also sensitive to the [[impact>>url:https://debconf16.debconf.org/talks/38/]] that DFSG-freeness or OSI approval can have. | ||
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| 15 | = My position = | ||
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| 17 | ==== Licensing ==== | ||
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| 19 | Free and open-source software has exploded in popularity in the last few years by any metric: users, contributors, projects. Along with this, we've seen a number of actors try to leverage the goodwill toward "open source" and twist it in a way that serves their commercial interests at the expense of user freedom. | ||
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| 21 | "Not-quite-OSD" licenses are not new. What's different is the concerted attempt to position such licenses as "basically open source", [[trade on the word association of various free culture terms>>url:https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license]], or even seek their direct certification as OSI licenses. Let me be clear: [[licenses with expansive, overly-burdensome requirements>>url:https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license]] that extend beyond the scope of the original work are not free & open-source licenses. As a member of the board, I'd push for OSI to **publicly take a stand** against this attempted watering down of the OSD. | ||
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| 25 | I also want to help support the OSI grow its membership — we have approximately 500 members, which is **less than 30%** of [[Debian contributors alone>>url:https://nm.debian.org/public/stats]]. Accordingly, I support gratis (or severely discounted) individual membership for members of affiliate organisations. Contributors to such organisations are the lifeblood of free and open-source software, and the OSI needs to hear their voice. We also need to better publicise our [[existing gratis memberships>>url:https://opensource.org/members#fees]] available to students and those to whom the cost is a hardship. | ||
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| 27 | I want free and open source software communities to be a welcoming environment to everyone. I support thoughtfully-designed and well-enforced codes of conduct that ensure people can participate in our communities without being subject to discrimination on the basis of race, gender (including trans-* and non-binary), sexual orientation, national origin, or religion. To that end, I would **propose revisions to the **[[**OSI mailing list Code of Conduct**>>url:https://opensource.org/codeofconduct]] so that it applies to all OSI spaces, and revise it to more closely match modern, well-tested codes of conduct, such as a variant of the [[Geek Feminism anti-harassment policy>>url:http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Community_anti-harassment/Policy]]. | ||
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| 29 | = Other stuff = | ||
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| 31 | I'm an administrator and former [[Arbitration Committee>>url:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee]] member on the English Wikipedia, see [[my userpage there>>url:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LFaraone]]. I founded a service-oriented computer club, [[SRCT>>url:https://srct.gmu.edu]], at George Mason University, and organised several OpenHatch Open Source Days both there and at [[MIT>>url:http://openhatch.mit.edu]]. |