As a distributed organization, the Open Source Initiative uses mailing lists as virtual committees. These are where larger Open Source community works with the OSI's Board of Directors in fulfilling our mission to "educate and advocate" for Open Source.
Moderator: Russ Nelson, License Committee Chair
Charter: Reviewing submitted licenses for OSD Compliance and Proliferation concerns (as described in the Approval Process), in order to provide community recommendations to the OSI Board.
Moderator: Ernest Prabhakar, OSI Board Observer
Charter: Discuss and answer important questions about Open Source licensing, in order to collect community wisdom for the FAQ.
Moderator: Michael Tiemann, OSI President
Charter: General discussion of issues relevant to the OSI's mission that are not covered by an existing mailing list. Discussions should be focused on either:
Moderator: Ken Coar, OSI Board Member
Charter: Help the OSI become a world-wide, membership-based organization. The basic idea is allowing individuals and/or organizations to associate with the Open Source Initiative for a nominal fee (adjusted for local purchasing power). We still need to define the exact criteria, rights, and responsibilities of members, which could potentially include:
We encourage interested parties to submit (and comment upon) specific proposals for how OSI membership could be structured.
Moderator: Ernest Prabhakar, OSI Board Observer
Charter: See the Wiki Editor page.
Moderator: Zak Greant, Trac Administrator
Charter: See Trac Maintainer page.
Moderator: TBD
Charter: Understand why aren't there more women contributing to Open Source projects, and what can we do about it?
Status: On hold. Awaiting a new moderator and/or charter to reinvigorate and focus the discussion.
Moderator: TBD
Charter: Evolve and promote the Open Standards Requirement for Software.
Status: On hold. Awaiting a new moderator and/or charter to reinvigorate and focus the discussion.
Charter: Public announcements
Status: Obsolete. Superseded by the OSI blog
Charter: Official discussion of the license proliferation committee, with community discussion in license-proliferation-discuss.
Status: Complete. They have submitted their final report.
Charter: Community discussion of License Proliferation issues.
Status: Obsolete. Ongoing anti-proliferation discussions now take place on License Discuss.