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The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation with global scope formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community.

Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in.

One of our most important activities is as a standards body, maintaining the Open Source Definition for the good of the community. The Open Source Initiative Approved License trademark and program creates a nexus of trust around which developers, users, corporations and governments can organize open source cooperation.




OSI Opening For Membership

The OSI Board is in the process of progressing governance reform to transform OSI into a member-based organisation.

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July 18, 2012: Individual Membership: The next step of OSI's transformation into a member organization starts today! You can become an Individual Member. Read more...

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June 18, 2012: Affiliate News: OSI is very pleased to welcome AFUL, The Document Foundation, Outercurve, OW2 and The Wikimedia Foundation as OSI Affiliates. Additionally, OSI invites eligible open source organisations to apply to be come Affiliates. Read more...

March 30, 2012: New Affiliates: OSI is very pleased to welcome CENATIC and Debian to the Affiliate scheme for community groups. Read more...

March 19, 2012: New Directors Deb Bryant, Luis Villa and Mike Milinkovic join the OSI Board. Read more...




Recent Activities

May 22, 2012: New OSI Officers: OSI is pleased to announce its new president, treasurer, and secretary for the 2012-2013 term. Read more...

April 25, 2012: OSI joined with FSFE and others in a press statement to call for the UK government to use open-source-compatible open standards. Read more...

March 30, 2012: OSI now has a Google+ page. If you use Google+, please add it to one of your circles to stay up-to-date with our news.

January 18, 2012: The Open Source Initiative Board joined many other civil society organisations as co-signatories of this open letter expressing concern about SOPA and PIPA. Read more...

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