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   Bradley M. Kuhn (bkuhn@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 10:46:15 JST Bradley M. Kuhn

   • Open Source Initiative :osi:

   #OpenSource Initiative (@osi) Board of Directors Elections plagued w/ irregularities:
   1. Miscommunicating nomination deadline
   2. Misrepresenting to nominators which seats were available
   3. Listing incumbent first in the voter's guide (i.e., not randomly ordering candidates in the list)
   4. Telling Affiliate Nominees they need not be Members, then later requiring Membership to participate in voters' forum
   5. Failing to list all nominating orgs for Affiliate candidates
   See https://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2025/03/03/osi-board-elections-problems.html

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     Bradley M. Kuhn (bkuhn@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 10:46:46 JST Bradley M. Kuhn

     in reply to

     After serious irregularities in Board “elections”, I ask #OpenSource Initiative to either:
     * reopen nominations briefly & delay voting deadline
     * just end the charade of non-binding “elections” & admit #OSI is governed by a (perfectly respectable) self-perpetuating Board
     https://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2025/03/03/osi-board-elections-problems.html
     There's no shame in nonprofit w/ self-perpetuating Board & that's what OSI is. “Elections” give appearance of democracy where none exists. Lack of transparency on that is root cause of these problems