Talk:Open Source Initiative

OpenSource logo
does anyone know when is the logo inargurated? Xah Lee 09:16, 2005 May 8 (UTC)

See my comments today related to making OSI external link more prominent at: [Talk:Open_source] that relate to this page. Fholson 13:02, 6 October 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fholson (talk • contribs)

Fair use rationale for Image:Opensource.svg
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BetacommandBot 07:35, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Regarding Osi-certified.jpg
Image:Osi-certified.jpg will be deleted in seven days on the 26th if no one writes a real fair use rationale. -- Thinboy00 talk/contribs @80, i.e. 00:55, 22 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Nothing links to this image. Speedy deletion is appropriate.  And, given that it is a trademark, it's not clear that you can even say its name on Wikipedia, much less link to it, much less host the image, unless you want those nasty Open Source Initiative people to sue you.  Wikipedia isn't allowed to use trademarks truthfully -- THAT WOULD BE ILLEGAL!  RussNelson (talk) 07:09, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Alumni?
What's an "OSI board alumni"? --Damiens .rf 19:24, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * And how does including a list of past board members add value to this article, ? Toddst1 (talk) 20:06, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
 * The list demonstrates a great deal of notability in previous Directors (as well as highlighting how non-notable the current Board is), as well as giving a convenient matrix of links to information about them that is not available elsewhere. In addition to these facts, my personal policy is not to needlessly discard the work of others even if I doubt that it would be useful to create it if it did not already exist. What is your motivation for deleting this useful information that's been laboriously gathered? ClareTheSharer (talk) 21:26, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

cororate suspension question
Uh, I'm a noob. and please forgive my not doing edits quite the right way. I added one sentence about OSI's corporate suspension to the history section. The suspension is easily verified by visiting the CA secretary of state site: kepler.sos.ca.gov and typing in "open source initiative" as the search term. I couldn't find a "permalink" so what is the right way to cite that site? Thank you in advance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.236.81.17 (talk) 01:06, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

This link is broken --76.226.68.97 (talk) 15:46, 22 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Googling "open source initiative suspended" turns up lots - David Gerard (talk) 11:42, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
 * The accounts that were found to have been mislaid were actually from some time prior; the current Board merely had the job of correcting an inherited problem by finding and submitting them. Webmink (talk) 21:09, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Creators "leaving" the org?
Full disclosure: ESR was banned from the mailing list for harassing me.

I'm not sure why creators leaving the org or being banned from the mailing list is here. It's not accurate as neither of them were really involved beforehand. It definitely shouldn't be 25% of the history section.

While I'm happy to provide additional context to assist other editors in improvement, I believe I personally have a conflict of interest, particularly as it relates to ESR being banned from the list, so I don't want to edit that part of the article. Hammy (talk) 02:28, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Edit request
Please replace the content of the page with User:Buidhe paid/Open Source Initiative.

Reason: Currently, the article is mainly based on the OSI website. My version cuts out the primary sourced cruft and instead adds all the independent sourcing + analysis I was able to find. Buidhe paid (talk) 02:33, 19 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Done ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 04:28, 29 May 2024 (UTC)