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35	35	I'm running for an individual seat. The candidates are all great people and I wish we had room for them all on the board instead of just //two seats!// We //do //have room for everyone in OSI, so I hope they won't be dissuaded by a loss. So, this isn't about running //against //those people. Let's have a policy discussion.
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37		-**Duane O'Brien** thinks that //[[Corporate Sponsors should be Corporate //Donors//>>url:https://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Main/OSI+Board+of+Directors/Board+Member+Elections/OBrien2018]],// and puts up a good rationale. I agree. Unfortunately, Corporate Sponsors have been the death of some other Open Source organizations. Well, those organizations are still around, but they're as good as dead - more like zombies out to eat your brains than they are working for the good of Open Source.
	37	+**Duane O'Brien** thinks that //[[Corporate Sponsors should be Corporate //Donors//>>url:https://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Main/OSI+Board+of+Directors/Board+Member+Elections/OBrien2018]],// and puts up a good rationale. **Josh Simmons** [[talks about "corporate funded foundations that sometimes distort the true spirit of open source">>url:https://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Main/OSI+Board+of+Directors/Board+Member+Elections/Simmons2018]]. I agree, and am glad that candidates, and OSI, are brave enough to engage the corporations //on our terms, not theirs//. Unfortunately, Corporate Sponsors have been the death of some other Open Source organizations. Well, those organizations are still around, but they're as good as dead - more like zombies out to eat your brains than they are working for the good of Open Source.
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39	39	**Molly de Blanc** (sitting board member, not a candidate this year) is [[looking for greater ethnic diversity>>url:https://opensource.org/node/919||rel="__blank"]]. I agree, and I am unfortunately another old white guy and can't help it. I can claim to be a religious minority in the U.S. (ethnically Jewish, Secular Humanist).
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43	43	This year and last have been years of Woman Power for me. I am privileged to be partner of the inspiring Valerie Gilbert-Perens (currently of UC Berkeley's Haas Business School) since the summer of '91, and with her, parent of Stanley. Stanley is now 17 and a state-certified search-and-rescue volunteer and firefighting student, working the Napa fire and Berkeley ambulance calls, on track to graduate high school with his EMT certificate. Valerie gets lots of the credit for bringing up that great kid. Most of my customers for //Legal Engineering// are woman corporate attorneys, and there is the amazing [[All Woman Defense Team>>url:https://perens.com/2017/11/04/about-the-lawsuit/]] (except for one lonely first-year associate) helping me with my lawsuit. A lot of my work over the past few months on //Open Research Institute// has been to develop an organization to support a woman who develops space communication systems, and when she's not doing that she plays in an orchestra, and is a mom too! All of these women are amazing, and no man can claim these women are //less //than him in any way.
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	45	+[[**Josh Simmons**>>url:https://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Main/OSI+Board+of+Directors/Board+Member+Elections/Simmons2018]] is currently OSI's CFO and I hope he's planning on staying even if he doesn't win a board seat. Boards can designate CFOs.
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45	45	I'm trying to find more to talk about with the other candidates, but there's not much there yet. Just vanilla things like they want to increase membership and funding. OK, that's obviously good for most organizations, but what are we going to //do //with it? I'd encourage those folks to go back to their pages and write more about //policy.// Please. There //is //a lot of policy that we should be working upon.
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47	47	== Open Cars ==