OSI Needs You

A brief explanation of OSI's new Individual Membership category, delivered at OSCON 2012 in the Thursday keynote session.

1. OSI Needs You! Simon Phipps President, The Open Source Initiative
2. OSI Past • Founded 1998 • Steward of the Open Source Definition • Arbiter of Open Source licenses • Looking after the community's firmware...
3. OSI Future “educate educate about and advocate advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community.” (that's from opensource.org/mission)
4. EDUCATE? ADVOCATE? BUILD BRIDGES? That will need PEOPLE!
5. OSI Today! • Please JOIN NOW! opensource.org/join • Help us evolve – be part of the solution.