Announcing the new directors of OSI board

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Originally published at: Announcing the new directors of OSI board – Open Source Initiative

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) board of directors validated the results of the polls, confirmed Carlo Piana as director and welcomed Ruth Suehle, recommended by Affiliates, and McCoy Smith recommended by Individual supporters, as new directors.

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Congratulations to all the winning candidates!

I noticed that a candidate has been removed, but there has been no official notice from OSI yet (or perhaps I missed it?). At the same time, I found an unofficial update from others in this forum. I feel that the public image doesn’t look good in this situation. I believe such a notice should be announced together with the official result announcement or before the results are released.

Here are my suggestions:

  1. Could OSI provide an official notice or statement on the website or forum regarding this update?

  2. If the candidate was removed after voting started, could OSI provide the original voting results, including all candidates?

Sammy Fung
Representative of OSHK (OSI Afflicate Member)

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I think you may have missed this in the post (or maybe OSI added it after the fact?):

Three candidates have been excluded from the final tally: Two were ineligible as they did not sign the current board agreement; one returned the signed agreement after the deadline passed.

It’s unfortunate that OSI had to deal with such adversarial people in this election—and OSI didn’t make it easier on themselves with mistakes like misstating the number of seats. I would’ve liked to have seen more proactive communication, otoh engaging with difficult people sometimes only makes matters work. Good luck to @jberkus and the rest on the election retro. Much to discuss and learn from!

Congratulations to all the winning candidates!

Indeed! Congratulations @Kappa @suehle @McCoy_Smith! Thank you for your service, and thank you @pchestek @aeva for serving these past years! :clap:

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@chadwhitacre Please no name-calling; everyone who ran for a seat is a member of OSI or an Affiliate, and wants the best for OSI even if we don’t all agree on what the best is.

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There’s the proactive communication I was looking for. :wink: Edited to remove “trolls.” :man_bowing: