Brett Sheffield (he/him)
The #OSI 's one job is to protect and promote #OpenSource and the Open Source Definition (OSD). Undermining that definition with the weakened #OSAID has alienated much of the Open Source community, myself included.
I had hoped that might be turned around, but this year's reform candidates were likely the last chance to see that happen.
Watching the OSI promoting corporate sponsors was concerning, but this year's blatant election manipulation is the final straw.
Brett Sheffield (he/him)
Today, having seen the #OSI election "results", in which several valid and accepted candidates were removed from the listings, and the full voting results suppressed, we have replaced references to the Open Source Definition with the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) on which they are based.
It saddens me to do this. I have been a long time supporter of OSI, and gone in to bat many times when companies have tried to pass themselves off as Open Source without an OSI approved license.
Brett Sheffield (he/him)
When OSI ran their campaign asking projects to add an "OSI approved" logo to their software, @librecast complied enthusiastically.
When the new administration made a mess of the website and broke links to a lot of content (many of which are still broken, and referenced in Wikipedia), including the "OSI approved" logo, we updated all our repos (again) to fix this.
Last week we removed the logos after watching the first part of this election.
Brett Sheffield (he/him)
They say to never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.
Unfortunately this year's @osi board elections go way beyond that point.
The current Executive Director is leading #OSI in a direction the community don't want to follow with #OSAID. By changing the rules as you go along in this year's election to exclude candidates who want to reform the OSI you have destroyed any remaining trust.
You shat the bed. It's time to change the sheets.
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