<div class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>A *huge* thanks to Zak for his tireless efforts in setting up -- and populating -- a new OSI issue tracking system. </div><div><br>
</div><div><a href="https://osi.osuosl.org/wiki" target="_blank">https://osi.osuosl.org/wiki</a></div><div><br></div><div>We are actively looking at how to better integrate this into our ongoing processes, in order to improve our responsiveness to community concerns. As part of that, we realize we need a larger team help manage the flow of tickets, and also improve the currently informal "lore" around OSI and License Discuss.
</div><div><br></div><div>Therefore, we are announcing the creation of a new "osi-editors" mailing list. This list would be responsible for:</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>* ensuring license review discussions are properly captured in the trac database
</div><div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>* managing the flow of general trac tickets<br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>* maintaining a FAQ on OSI Licensing issues<br></div><div>and also:</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>* reviewing requests for new editors to join the list<br></div><div><br></div><div>The idea is that the osi-editors list would be composed of long-term license-discuss members who have demonstrated their commitment to the community. While the Board retains the final authority to approve or decline licenses, the OSI Editors give the community a stronger voice in shaping the debate (and can help hold the Board accountable for following the process)!
</div><div><br></div><div>As an initial pool of candidates, here are several individuals who have been consistently helpful and active over the last couple years -- and represent a diverse range of viewpoints!</div><div>
<br></div><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:Courier;font-size:11px;white-space:pre-wrap">- Brian Behlendorf
- John Cowan
- Rod Dixon
- Chris DiBona
- Mike Milkinovich
- Rick Moen
- Simon Phipps
- Allison Randall
- Larry Rosen
- Chuck Swiger
- Ben Tilly
- Andrew Wilson
</span></div><div><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-size:11px;white-space:pre-wrap">- Zak Greant</span></font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-size:11px;white-space:pre-wrap">
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<div>We encourage all of you (as members of license-discuss) to vote (+1 / -1) on these candidates, as well as suggest your own. Please keep votes on this subject line (thread), and start a new thread for any side discussions.
</div><div><br></div><div>If you *are* one of these candidates, please let us know whether you are (un)willing to serve in this capacity.</div><div><br></div><div>We will monitor the responses (using Trac :-), and plan to announce the results on December 1st.
</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>Ernest Prabhakar</div><div>OSI Board Observer</div></span></span></font></div></div></div></div>