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5	5	== Who I Am ==
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7		-I am one of the founders of the Open Source Initiative and was an initial board member 20 years ago. I was the creator of the //Open Source Definition, //the rules for Open Source licensing which OSI still uses. I published my first Open Source program,// //the //Electric Fence //malloc debugger, to the USENET newsgroup comp.sources.sun from Pixar in the late 1980's. So, I've been participating in Open Source for about 30 years now - half my life.
	7	+I am one of the founders of the Open Source Initiative and was an initial board member 20 years ago. I was the creator of the //[[Open Source Definition>>url:https://opensource.org/osd]], //the rules for Open Source licensing which OSI still uses. I published my first Open Source program,// //the//[[ //Electric Fence//>>url:https://elinux.org/Electric_Fence||rel="__blank"]] //malloc debugger, to the USENET newsgroup comp.sources.sun from [[Pixar>>url:https://www.pixar.com/]] in the late 1980's. So, I've been participating in Open Source for about 30 years now - half my life.
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9		-I continue to tour the world promoting Open Source software, keynoting many conferences. At home, I'm working on Open Source for Space as president of Open Research Institute, Inc. (ORI), a non-profit organization which supports international collaboration on Open Source projects for technology that would otherwise be considered "munitions" by the U.S. Government under ITAR and EAR. ORI will apply to become an affiliate of OSI once we're certified as a 501(c)3 non-profit. To support my family, I run a small business, //Legal Engineering,// which helps law firms and their customers to understand Open Source and to resolve license compliance issues.
	9	+I continue to tour the world promoting Open Source software, keynoting many conferences. At home, I'm working on Open Source for Space as president of [[Open Research Institute>>url:https://openresearch.institute/]], Inc. (ORI), a non-profit organization which supports international collaboration on Open Source projects for technology that would otherwise be considered "munitions" by the U.S. Government under ITAR and EAR. ORI will apply to become an affiliate of OSI once we're certified as a 501(c)3 non-profit. To support my family, I run a small business, //Legal Engineering,// which helps law firms and their customers to understand Open Source and to resolve license compliance issues.
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11		-I was the second Debian project leader and successfully split the development of the "core" of Debian among many different developers worldwide instead of a single developer. At the time, nobody knew that you could do that and have the system actually //run //when it all came together. We succeeded in getting the Debian system on two Space Shuttle flights, and built not just Debian but the foundation of all of its derivatives today: Ubuntu, Mint, etc.
	11	+I was the second [[Debian>>url:https://www.debian.org/]] project leader and successfully split the development of the "core" of Debian among many different developers worldwide instead of a single developer. At the time, nobody knew that you could do that and have the system actually //run //when it all came together. We succeeded in getting the Debian system on two Space Shuttle flights, and built not just Debian but the foundation of all of its derivatives today: Ubuntu, Mint, etc.
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13		-I created //Busybox, //a set of tiny command-line utilities for the first compact embedded Linux system, as part of the Debian installer. Today, it's in your phone, drone, and wireless access point.
	13	+I created //[[//Busybox//>>url:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox]], //a set of tiny command-line utilities for the //first //compact embedded Linux system, as part of the Debian installer. Today, it's in your phone, drone, and wireless access point.
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15		-I published 24 books on Open Source software as series editor of the //Bruce Perens' Open Source Series //of books with Prentice Hall PTR publishers. This was the first book series under an Open Publication License, before Creative Commons existed.
	15	+I published 24 books on Open Source software as series editor of the //[[Bruce Perens' Open Source Series>>url:http://www.informit.com/promotions/perens-series-page-135563]] //of books with Prentice Hall PTR publishers. This was the first book series under an Open Publication License, before Creative Commons existed.
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17		-I am active as a member of OSI's license review committee, and helping OSI handle some gnarly political issues that threaten Open Source.
	17	+I am active as a member of OSI's license review committee, and helping OSI handle some gnarly political issues that threaten Open Source. I've had to do a lot of explaining this year about why Open Source is the way that it is, that OSI should be able to do for itself - for instance seriously explaining to companies, lawyers, and standards committees why Open Source doesn't have patent royalties, and why the license rules are the way they are. Things that are logical, but not obvious. Mostly to people outside of OSI, but even OSI, after several generations of leadership, has forgotten some history and doesn't always have the words that they need.
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19		-I've had to do a lot of explaining this year about why Open Source is the way that it is, that OSI should be able to do for itself - for instance seriously explaining to companies, lawyers, and standards committees why Open Source doesn't have patent royalties, and why the license rules are the way they are. Things that are logical, but not obvious. Mostly to people outside of OSI, but even OSI, after several generations of leadership, doesn't always have the words that they need.
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21	21	== Why I'm Running ==
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23	23	I've been very effective without holding any representative position. I'm going to go on doing this stuff whether you elect me or not. But I can do more, and more effectively, on some serious issues if you help me by making me an OSI director again. Let's break my agenda into two pieces: