[License-review] Fwd: [Non-DoD Source] Resolution on NOSA 2.0

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) (cem.f.karan.civ at mail.mil):

> Actually, I have a slightly different idea; Bryan or Rob, would you be
> willing to post the complete text on GitHub somewhere?  One of the
> parallel conversations that has been happening is the use of new tools
> to comment on and evaluate licenses; NOSA 2.0 could be the guinea pig
> for the idea of using GitHub to do that.  If nothing else, we can
> maintain a log of all the issues and comments in one place, so that
> when we all forget what we were arguing over 5 years ago, we can look
> up the issues quickly and see if anything has changed since.

Just a note in passing:  If participation in OSI public outreach begins
to require login accounts at -- and thus contractual agreements with -- 
external firms such as GitHub, Inc., OSI will lose some participants.

I long ago started saying 'no' when some community institutions started 
expecting members to sign up for outsourced Internet services just to
talk to the community institutions, e.g., when my fellow Board of
Directors members at BayLISA, my local professional sysadmin guild, 
persisted in expecting everyone including Directors and meeting
attendees to coordinate with them via Meetup because the Board majority
had become too lazy to operate their own Web site and Mailman lists, I 
quietly served out the last of my approximately six terms of office and
dropped out of both the Board and the group.[1]

OSI management should please note that people who decline to participate
in similar arrangements, because they're disinclined to sign up for yet
another third-party outsourcing agreement, probably won't tell OSI that.
They'll just be invisibly and quietly absent.

[1] More at http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/meetup.html

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