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  • The Open Source Initiative Announces Linux Professional Institute Affiliate Membership

    Leading vendor-independent Linux certification organization extends commitment to furthering the adoption of Linux and Open Source.

    July 22, 2015 - PALO ALTO, Calif. -- The Open Source Initiative® (OSI), recognized globally for promoting and protecting open source software and development communities, announced today the affiliate membership of The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), a non-profit organization dedicated to vendor-neutral Linux certification and workforce development for Linux, open source and IT professionals. The OSI Affiliate Member Program, available at no-cost, allows non-profit and not-for-profit organizations—unequivocally independent groups with a clear commitment to open source—to join and support the OSI's mission to raise awareness and adoption of open source software and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community.

    "We're thrilled that the Open Source Initiative has accepted the Linux Professional Institute as an affiliate member. For the last 15+ years at LPI, we've been committed to helping open source professionals develop their skills in Linux to help advance their careers and seize new opportunities," said Jim Lacey, CEO, Linux Professional Institute, "Together with OSI, we can further our shared mission, to help grow awareness of and further the adoption of open source technologies around the world."

    Affiliate members participate directly in the direction and development of the OSI through Board of Director elections as well as incubator projects and working groups that support the open source movement. OSI membership provides a forum where some of the world's most successful open source software leaders, projects and communities engage through member-driven initiatives to, not only raise awareness and adoption of open source software, but also extend and improve their own open source efforts through co-creation, collaboration and community.

    "I'm struck by the absolute alignment in both the LPI's mission, 'to enhance, develop and further lifelong professional careers in Linux and open source technologies' and the OSI's mandate 'to raise awareness and adoption of open source," offered OSI General Manager, Patrick Masson. "LPI has a long and respected history of not only promoting open source but also, through world-class professional development and training, extending the individual skills and ensuring the health of those communities that build and maintain open source software."

    Since its founding, LPI has focused on providing the best vendor-independent Linux certifications to allow candidates to prove they have core Linux skills enabling them to work across Linux distributions in a wide range of enterprise environments. To date, the organization has delivered over 450,000 certification exams around the world with the help of its international affiliate network—representatives from across the globe that guide certification candidates, policy, and provide open source support in local languages.

    For more information about the OSI Affiliate Member Program and how your organization can join, see: http://opensource.org/affiliates

    About Linux Professional Institute
    The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is dedicated to providing a global framework, industry leadership and other services to enhance, develop and further lifelong professional careers in Linux and Open Source technologies. LPI's leading vendor-independent Linux certification program is supported by a global affiliate network that has helped deliver over 450,000 certification exams worldwide. Established as a non-profit in 1999, LPI is supported by the IT and educational communities, enterprise customers, and government entities. To learn more about LPI visit: https://www.lpi.org

    About The Open Source Initiative
    Founded in 1998, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) protects and promotes open source by providing a foundation for community success. It champions open source in society through education, infrastructure and collaboration. The OSI is a California public benefit corporation, with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. For more information about the OSI, please visit: http://opensource.org.

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  • The Open Source Initiative Welcomes Mifos Initiative

    Project focused on eliminating poverty shares vision of open source development for the good of the global community.

    July 19, 2015 - PALO ALTO, Calif. -- The Open Source Initiative® (OSI) this week welcomed The Mifos Initiative as the latest Affiliate Member to join the global non-profit focused on promoting and protecting open source software, development and communities.

    The Mifos Initiative aims to create a world where each of the 2.5 billion poor and unbanked has access to the financial resources needed to create a better life for themselves and their family. The Mifos Initiative’s sole mission is to speed the elimination of poverty by coordinating a global community that builds, supports, and uses Mifos X, a free and open source platform that enables financial service providers to more effectively and efficiently deliver responsible financial services to the world’s 2.5 billion poor and unbanked.

    “The Mifos Initative’s humanitarian applications for open source code are an exciting expression of the value of open source software” said Leslie Hawthorn, OSI Director. “We are delighted to welcome them as Affiliate Members, along with other recently joining humanitarian focused affiliate members such as the OpenMRS project.”

    The Mifos Initiative believes in the Three Pillars of Sustainability: Environment, Society, and Economy, where education, health, and financial security form the base of these pillars. “Open source is the right tool to empower the people and create sustainability across the world and we are eager to support the OSI by its mission to maintain open source for the good of the community,” said Markus Geiß, Chief Architect at Mifos.

    The OSI Affiliate Member Program, available at no-cost, allows non-profit and not-for-profit organizations—unequivocally independent groups with a clear commitment to open source—to join and support our mission to raise awareness and adoption of open source software and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community. Affiliate Members participate directly in the direction and development of the OSI through Board of Director elections as well as incubator projects and working groups that support the open source movement. OSI membership provides a forum where some of the world's most successful open source software leaders, projects, businesses and communities engage through member-driven initiatives to, not only raise awareness and adoption of open source software, but also to extend and improve their own open source efforts through co-creation, collaboration and community. For more information about the OSI Affiliate Member Program and how your organization can join, see: http://opensource.org/affiliates.

    About The Mifos Initiative
    The Mifos Initiative, a 501(c)(3) non-profit located in Seattle, stewards the global community that builds the Mifos X platform – an open technology platform for financial inclusion used by financial services providers worldwide, supported by a network of local partners and maintained and extended by a global team of volunteers. For more information, visit: http://mifos.org.

    About The Open Source Initiative
    Founded in 1998, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) protects and promotes open source by providing a foundation for community success. It champions open source in society through education, infrastructure and collaboration. The OSI is a California public benefit corporation, with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. For more information about the OSI, please visit: http://opensource.org.

    Media Contact
    Ed Schauweker
    ed@agilepr.net



  • Xerte Project Joins Open Source Initiative

    Xerte Project's Open Source Initiative membership furthers both organization's commitment to growing open source community and collaboration within institutions of higher education.

    July 15, 2015 - PALO ALTO, Calif. -- The Open Source Initiative® (OSI) has announced the Affiliate Membership of The Xerte Project, an initiative to provide high-quality free software to educators all over the world, and to build a global community of users and developers around the tools.The partnership highlights the OSI's continued efforts within the higher education sector.

    The Xerte Project began in 2004, and released its first tools under an open license in 2006. Since then the project has gone on to develop the award-winning Xerte Online Toolkits software, cultivated an enthusiastic community of users and developers and has continued to innovate in the development of authoring tools. The Xerte Project places three values above all else: ease of use for non-technical content authors, providing best-of-breed accessibility, and nurturing a positive and friendly community of users and developers. Xerte Online Toolkits is used in hundreds of institutions around the world.

    Recognizing the benefits of reduced costs, increased pace of innovation, community-driven development and shared services, colleges and universities are increasingly moving to open source software solutions like The Xerte Project. The OSI has recently expanded efforts to support open source in education across the globe and help institutions maximize opportunities through participation in both the development of open source software as well as the technical and educational communities of practice which support those projects.

    Julian Tenney, who leads developments on The Xerte Project, said of the membership, “The OSI will help us grow our communities of users and developers, and clearly demonstrates that we are a robust and sustainable project.” The OSI's General Manager, Patrick Masson offered, "The Xerte Project exemplifies exactly what the OSI hopes to foster across the higher education and open source communities. The project and community have collaborated with several organizations to grow and mature, including with another OSI Affiliate, The Apereo Foundation. It is exactly these relationships and benefits between communities that the OSI is working to create and promote." Tenney add, “The OSI establishes very high standards for affiliate projects, and we’re really proud to be accepted as an OSI affiliate member.”

    Affiliate Membership allows any non-profit community, organization or institution—unequivocally independent groups with a clear commitment to open source—to join the OSI in support of it’s mission to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source software and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community. The current OSI affiliate membership is a who's-who of the world of open source software. The Affiliate Member Program is available to non-profits, educational institutions and government agencies. For more information about the OSI Affiliate Member Program and how your organization can join, see: http://opensource.org/affiliates

    About The Xerte Project
    Begun in 2004 at the University of Nottingham, The Xerte Project produces free, open-source tools for the production of interactive learning materials. The project emphasizes ease-of-use for non-technical users, whilst at the same time providing powerful tools for developers, and providing best in class accessibility. Developments are based on real world use cases identified by the user community. The project fosters a positive, supportive and friendly community of users and developers. You can learn more at: http://xerte.org.uk

    About The Open Source Initiative
    Founded in 1998, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) protects and promotes open source by providing a foundation for community success. It champions open source in society through education, infrastructure and collaboration. The OSI is a California public benefit corporation, with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. For more information about the OSI, please visit: http://opensource.org

    Media Contact
    Ed Schauweker
    ed@agilepr.net



  • OSI at OSCON 2015

    Once again the OSI and our Board of Directors will be at OSCON. Just like in years past, the OSI will again be strongly represented with presentations form our Board Directors, Affiliate Members and Individual Members, a booth in the Expo Hall and even a dedicated session on how to use OSI's resources to change the open source world.

    Here are just a few suggestions of activities to help make your OSCON educational, inspirational and fun while supporting the OSI:

    OSI Special Session

    "How to use OSI's resources to change the open source world
    Deborah Bryant (Open Source Initiative & Red Hat) & Simon Phipps (Open Source Initiative & Wipro)
    10:00am–10:40am Friday, 07/24/2015
    Do you have a great idea for how the open source world could be a better place? Would you like the resources and mentors to make it real? Since 2012, OSI has been transforming into a member organisation and it has now reached the stage where it has a member-elected Board and a General Manager ready to empower change.

    OSI Board Director Sessions

    Keynote
    They're here. Now what? Keynote
    Allison Randal (Open Source Initiative & Hewlett-Packard)
    The early days of the open source movement were all about creating an approachable on-ramp to software freedom. We focused strongly on the practical benefits of free software and refined the message, hoping to help the professional software sector better understand what we’d been saying since 1983. We succeeded to such an extent that modern open source is characterized by active use, participation, and contributions, from the largest Fortune 50 software giants to the smallest Silicon Valley startups and everything in between. Success in our first goal doesn’t mean we’re done, it only means we’re due to clearly define the next phase of open source. The potential of what we might accomplish, using the resources of the entire software industry, is both inspiring and daunting. Will we live up to that potential?

    General Session
    Fear of failing fast: How to avoid sabotaging your success
    Leslie Hawthorn (Open Source Initiative & Elastic)
    While it’s easy to pay lip service to the idea of innovating by failing fast, humans are both neurally geared and financially incentivized to avoid failure. We’ve all heard the tales of woe: blameless reviews that were anything but blameless; encouragement to work on an experimental project with punishment being the primary result of its failure; and the associated fear of doing anything new, speculative or untried. The results are simple: individuals, teams, and companies that stagnate slowly. So how can we create an environment that makes failing fast safe for the participants and their organizations? In this talk, we’ll cover key strategies for creating an environment that fosters rapid innovation in your organization.

    OSI in the Expo Hall

    Be sure to come by the OSI's booth at the Non-profit Pavilion in the Expo Hal. While you're there also please visit our Affiliate Members:
    • DemocracyLab: DemocracyLab is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization aspiring to revolutionize the nature of political dialogue. We're developing open source software tools to help communities identify problems, construct solutions, make decisions, and take collaborative action.
    • The Document Foundation: The Document Foundation is an open, independent, self-governing, non-profit organization. Its objective is to develop Free/Libre and Open Source office software, based on open standards, through an independent, meritocratic community and international collaboration. The community develops LibreOffice, continuing and building on ten years of dedicated work by the OpenOffice.org community.
    • Drupal: Drupal is an open source content management platform that empowers individuals, teams, and communities to easily publish, manage and organize web content. Tens of thousands of organizations use Drupal to power millions of community web portals, corporate web sites, social networking sites, personal web sites or blogs, applications and much more. It's built, used and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.
    • FreeBSD: The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3), US based, non-profit organization dedicated to supporting, promoting, and building the FreeBSD Project and community worldwide. The Foundation gratefully accepts donations from individuals and businesses, using them to fund and manage projects, sponsor FreeBSD events, Developer Summits and provide travel grants to FreeBSD developers.
    • Linuxfest Northwest: LinuxFest Northwest is presented by volunteers from Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia, and draws hundreds of attendees from around the region. It features internationally recognized speakers from well-known open source projects, as well as a variety of interesting exhibits and demonstrations. Admission is free, and all ages are welcome.
    • Mautic: Mautic provides free and open source marketing automation. Every business or organization regardless of their size now has access to the most powerful lead nurturing, lead generation, email marketing, campaign management, asset management software available. Download Mautic and install on your own server for a completely private and totally secure marketing platform. Integrate Mautic with an unlimited number of other systems through a solid API. Unlimited leads, unlimited emails, unlimited users, unlimited integrations at no cost.
    • Mozilla Foundation: The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization that promotes openness, innovation and participation on the Internet. We promote the values of an open Internet to the broader world. Mozilla is best known for the Firefox browser, but we advance our mission through other software projects, grants and engagement and education efforts such as Mozilla Webmaker.
    • OW2: OW2 is an independent industry community dedicated to developing open source code infrastructure (middleware and generic applications) and to fostering a vibrant community and business ecosystem. The OW2 Consortium hosts some one hundred technology projects, including ASM, Bonita, CLIF, CompatibleOne, DocDoku, Emerginov, erOCCI, JOnAS, JORAM, Lutece, Nanoko, OpenCloudware, OpenPaas, ProActive, SpagoBI, Talend Studio, WebLab, XLcloud , XWiki.

    OSI Former Board Director Sessions

    Building and running an open source programs office
    Chris DiBona (Google)

    OSI Premium Sponsor Sessions

    Facebook
    Database reliability engineering, modernizing the DBA role, Charity Majors

    Google
    Building and running an open source programs office, Will Norris
    Coding in the FLOW: Structuring your development session to promote a state of flow, Caskey Dickson
    Debugging Teams, Ben Collins-Sussman
    Handle your design conundrums with modern Python design patterns, Alex Martelli
    High adventures in sniffing my own metadata, Josh Deprez
    Java-based microservices, containers, Kubernetes - how to, Ray Tsang
    Stop writing Javascript frameworks, Joseph Gregorio

    Hewlett-Packard
    CoreOS DNA on Debian, Patrick Galbraith
    Developing and deploying cloud native apps on Cloud Foundry and OpenStack with HP Helion, Rajeev Pandey
    Introduction to developing embedded Linux device drivers, Nick Gudman
    OpenStack basics -- featuring HP Helion OpenStack, Christopher Cannon

    IBM
    Open Source Lynchpins in 2015: the Anti-Venom to Vendor Lock-in, Angel Diaz
    Design, culture, and transformation: Our journey so far, Phil Gilbert
    Zero to light speed - performance of containers and hypervisors in cloud, Andrew Hately
    Offline-first mobile web apps with PouchDB, IBM Cloudant, and IBM Bluemix, Bradley Holt
    Open source design: A love story, Una Kravets
    Open source era of innovation- taking over the world of cloud applications - one at a time, Andrew Hately & Jason McGee
    Case studies in success: Exploiting the open source Linux ecosystem to drive rapid innovation and higher value, Jim Wasko

    OSI Sponsor Sessions

    NGINX
    Welcome and introductions: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday Opening Welcome Keynote, Sarah Novotny
    Connecting and deploying microservices at scale with nginx, Nick Shadrin

    Twitter
    Building and running an open source programs office, Chris Aniszczyk
    Creating an open source office: Lessons from Twitter, Chris Aniszczyk
    Scala at scale at Twitter, Travis Brown

    We hope you'll attend a session, stop by our booth in the Expo Hall, or just say , "Hi" at one of the great social events. See you in Portland!



  • The Open Information Security Foundation Joins Open Source Initiative as Affiliate Member

    Affiliation highlights commitment to open source technologies and the communities that keep them thriving.

    June 28, 2015 - PALO ALTO, Calif. -- The Open Source Initiative® (OSI) today announced that The Open Information Security Foundation (OISF) has been accepted as an Affiliate Member. “The OSI is excited to welcome OISF,” said Patrick Masson, General Manager and Director at the OSI. "Just as we're seeing with open source software projects, more and more organizations are looking for support from mature, robust and relevant security communities. The OISF and the open source technologies they support are ready to help and we're happy to promote their good work."

    The OISF is led by world-class security experts, programmers, and others dedicated to open source security technologies. Their esteemed Board of Directors is elected by the global community and is comprised of members from organizations across the United States, Europe, and Asia.OISF engages directly with their member community though working groups, mailing lists, training events, and annual user conferences. Their mission of building community and innovative open source security technologies can be seen through all their efforts. For over eight years, the OISF's commitment to open source security technologies and the communities of practice that enable them has been unwavering.

    "We are thrilled to join the OSI community and look forward to not only growing our community, but also in participating with the other affiliate organizations who share our passion for open source projects." Kelley Misata, Executive Director of OISF

    The OSI Affiliate Member Program, available at no-cost, allows non-profit and not-for-profit organizations—unequivocally independent groups with a clear commitment to open source—to join and support our mission to promote and protect open source software and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community. Affiliate Members participate directly in the direction and development of the OSI through Board of Director elections as well as incubator projects and working groups that support the open source movement. OSI membership provides a forum where some of the world's most successful open source software leaders, projects, businesses and communities engage through member-driven initiatives to, not only raise awareness and adoption of open source software, but also to extend and improve their own open source efforts through co-creation, collaboration and community. For more information about the OSI Affiliate Member Program and how your organization can join, see: http://opensource.org/affiliates.

    About The Open Information Security Foundation
    The Open Information Security Foundation (OISF) is a non-profit foundation organized to build a next generation IDS/IPS engine. The OISF has formed a multi-national group of the leading software developers in the security industry. In addition to developers and a consortium consisting of leading cyber security companies, OISF has engaged the open source security community to identify current and future IDS/IPS needs and desires. For more information, visit: http://oisf.net/.

    About The Open Source Initiative
    Founded in 1998, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) protects and promotes open source by providing a foundation for community success. It champions open source in society through education, infrastructure and collaboration. The OSI is a California public benefit corporation, with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. For more information about the OSI, please visit: http://opensource.org.

    Media Contact
    Ed Schauweker
    ed@agilepr.net