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<p>Hi everyone, <br>
</p>
<p>Hope you're all continuing to be awesome, and big #hugops to
those of you who've been dealing with Petya over the last few
days. <br>
</p>
<p>One of the actions I had from the 22nd June Council meeting was
to bring to you a topic for discussion that's been at Council for
a few weeks now - to seek input and feedback, and to provide
Council with an informed set of views on which to take some
concrete next steps. <br>
</p>
<h4>Background</h4>
<p>The Open Source Initiative was formed almost twenty years ago,
and developed, and safeguards the Open Source Definition. <br>
</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://opensource.org/about">https://opensource.org/about</a></p>
<p>Our vision, mission and values overlap strongly and are centred
around advocating for open source technologies</p>
<p>The OSI is a 501(3)(c) charity in the USA (equivalent of
Australian DGR status). <br>
</p>
<p>They are a membership based organisation and their main stream of
revenue is membership, with some sponsorship. <br>
</p>
<h4>Possible methods of engagement</h4>
<ul>
<li><b>Reciprocal membership </b>- OSI's business model is
raising funds through membership. It would be possible for OSI
to extend membership to Linux Aus members, for instance if Linux
Aus paid a lump sum each year. While there wouldn't be specific,
direct benefits for individual Linux Australia members through
this approach, other than the benefits of OSI membership, it
would help grow the membership base of OSI and more indirectly,
international networks /connections. <br>
<br>
</li>
<li><b>Linux Aus becomes organisational member of OSI</b> -
similar to the relationship we have with auDA, Linux Australia
could become an organisational member of OSI. OSI refers to this
type of membership as 'Affiliates'. <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://opensource.org/affiliates/about">https://opensource.org/affiliates/about</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><b>Sponsorship</b> - one of the ways we could support the OSI
is through Sponsorship <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://opensource.org/sponsors#sponOps">https://opensource.org/sponsors#sponOps<br>
<br>
</a></li>
<li><b>Other</b> - are there other ways we could or should engage?<br>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>What should we do?</h4>
We'd now like to seek feedback from the community to help us engage
in a way that you're supportive of. Feel free to reply to this list,
to Council (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:council@linux.org.au">council@linux.org.au</a>), or to myself or any other Council
Member if you would like to provide confidential feedback - your
privacy will be protected. <br>
<br>
Kind regards, <br>
Kathy<br>
<br>
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Kathy Reid
President
Linux Australia
0418 130 636
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:president@linux.org.au">president@linux.org.au</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://linux.org.au">http://linux.org.au</a>
Linux Australia Inc
GPO Box 4788
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
ABN 56 987 117 479 </pre>
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