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1	1	The discussions occurring on both the License Discuss and License Review mailing lists are summarized in monthly reports and posted back to the corresponding mailing lists and the OSI website.
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	3	+In order to ensure the reports and summaries of discussions are usable, concise, and consistent the following style guidelines have been adopted.
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4		-In order to ensure the reports and summaries of posts are usable, concise, and consistent the following style guidelines have been adopted.
	5	+~1. Report Title
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6		-~1. Introduction and Table of Contents
	7	+* The monthly License-Discuss report is titled, "[MONTH] [YEAR] License-Discuss Report"
	8	+** The URL for the License-Discuss report is formatted as, "https://opensource.org/LicenseDiscuss[YYYYMM]"
	9	+* The monthly License-Review report is titled, "[MONTH] [YEAR] License-Review Report"
	10	+** The URL for the License-Review report is formatted as, "https://opensource.org/LicenseReview[YYYYMM]"
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8		-* Each topic introduced to the mailing list is included in a table of contents.
9		-* Topics included in the table of contents is based on the date the topic was introduced to the list: the oldest topics first, fol lowered by later topics added throughout the month.
10		-* The table of contents will be included first in the report, above and before the summaries of any discussion posts.
	12	+2. Introduction (website only)
	13	+The OSI's content management system (Drupal), allows any "News" post (blog post) to include a summary of the contents on the OSI website's homepage.
	14	+* The homepage summary includes the content form the table of contents in paragraph form.
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12	12	Example:
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14	14	{{box}}
	19	+In [MONTH}, the License-[discuss/Review] mailing list discussed the [FIRST TOPIC SUBMITTED FOR THE MONTH], the [SECOND TOPIC SUBMITTED...], the [THIRD TOPIC...], and the [...].
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	22	+3. Table of Contents
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	24	+* Each report will include a table of contents listing the topics discussed during the month.
	25	+* The order of the topics included in the table of contents is based on the date the topic was introduced to the mailing list: the oldest topics first, fol lowered by later topics added throughout the month.
	26	+* The table of contents will be included at the beginning of the report.
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	28	+Example:
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15	15	License-[Discuss/Review] mailing list topics for [MONTH] [YEAR]:
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17	17	[FIRST TOPIC SUBMITTED FOR THE MONTH]
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34	34	* Only discussion posts including additional relevant (on topic) issues should be included summarized in the report.
35	35	* Responses to the initial issue(s) should not be included. Readers can click to the thread to follow the discussion.
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	55	+Glossary of Terms
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	57	+* Discussion - the thread of posts in response to a topic.
	58	+* Mailing List - a forum for email-based discussions managed by the OSI on the MailMan platform.
	59	+* Post - a message sent by a mailing list user to the mailing list forum.
	60	+* Report - the entire content of a month's License-Discuss and License-Review posted to the OSI website and corresponding mailing list.
	61	+* Summary - a brief transcript of a mailing list post send by a mailing list user.
	62	+* Topic - a single subject introduced to the License-Discuss or License-Review mailing list.
	63	+* Topic Header - the text included in a License-Discuss or License-Review report introducing a new topic.
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