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Candidacy for 2025 Open Source Initiative Elections

Friday 28 February 2025 by Bradley M. Kuhn

I accepted nomination as a candidate for an “Affiliate seat” in the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Board of Directors elections. I was nominated by the following four OSI Affiliates:

• The Matrix Foundation
• The Perl and Raku Foundation
• Software Freedom Conservancy (my employer)
• snowdrift.coop

To my knowledge, I am the only Affiliate candidate, in the history of these OSI Board of Directors “advisory” elections, to be nominated by four Affiliates.

I am also endorsed by another Affiliate, the Debian Project.

You can see my official candidate page on OSI's website. This blog post will be updated throughout the campaign to link to other posts, materials, and announcement related to my candidacy throughout the campaign.

Updates During the Campaign

• At OSI's request (which was surprising and reversed earlier guidance on the matter from the OSI), I Signed an OSI Board Agreement in Anticipation of 2025 Election Results
• There were many irregularities in the 2025 OSI Board Elections.

I ran on the “OSI Reform Platform” with Richard Fontana.

I created a Fediverse account specifically to interact with constituents and the public, so please also follow that on floss.social/@bkuhn.

Posted on Friday 28 February 2025 at 06:00 by Bradley M. Kuhn.

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