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   Dan ⁂ (frytg@beoriginal.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 10:00:24 JST Dan ⁂

   can someone give me the TL;DR what this whole #OSI fuss is about? 🤨

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     Richard Fontana (richardfontana@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 10:00:20 JST Richard Fontana

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     @FRYTG OSI subsequently published detailed Scottish STV election results but excluded these three candidates from the election calculation and has thus far refused to publish complete anonymized election data including any votes received by the excluded candidates. It is possible, and perhaps likely, that at least one of the two reform candidates had the highest number of raw votes for their specific election. (4/4)

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     Richard Fontana (richardfontana@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 10:00:21 JST Richard Fontana

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     @FRYTG The two candidates who supported the reform platform each submitted a slightly revised version of the board agreement before the deadline (their revisions related to the 19 words their platform raised concerns about). A third candidate apparently did not learn about the request in time to submit the agreement. (3/n)

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     Richard Fontana (richardfontana@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 10:00:22 JST Richard Fontana

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     @FRYTG OSI held elections among its Affiliate Members and Individual Members for vacancies on its board. One Affiliate representative candidate and one
     Individual Member candidate (disclosure: me) ran on a 4-plank "reform" platform, one plank of which called for OSI to repeal the controversial Open Source AI Definition (the subject of major focus by OSI over the past year or two) and another plank of which called for replacement of 19 words in the 2-page standard board member agreement. (1/n)

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     Richard Fontana (richardfontana@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 10:00:22 JST Richard Fontana

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     @FRYTG It was understood by candidates prior to the vote that any person invited to join the board (presumably after being declared the winner of their election) would have to sign the board member agreement. Right after the vote concluded, and before announcing any election results, the OSI unexpectedly requested that all candidates sign the board member agreement within 47 hours. (2/n)

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