Board and Teams Planning Timeline 2017-2018
Version 12.1 by Patrick Masson on 2017/12/05 23:24
Vision
Current suggestions
- The global software industry committed to, collaborating on, and co-creating open source software, development, and community.
- All by open source. (Double entendre: all the software used by people/orgs is open source, and all development done by people/orgs is open source)
Mission
Promote and protect open source software, development and communities, championing software freedom in society through education, collaboration, and infrastructure, stewarding the Open Source Definition (OSD), and preventing abuse of the ideals and ethos inherent to the open source movement.
Objectives
| Objective | Measurement(s) / Success Criteria |
|---|---|
| Global acknowledgement that the OSI is the single authority in approving open source software licenses. | How do we know when this is complete |
| Global acceptance that only software distributed with an OSI Approved Open Source License can carry the "Open Source Software" label. | How do we know when this is complete |
Top Goals for the Year
- Improve license review process:
- Establish project/program manager role
- Document how the process works
- Establish sustainable capacity for managing infrastructure and critical resources.
- Improve efficiency/automation so we can scale
- Replace several general mailing lists with an AskBot instance
- Explore options to automate communications in 2017-2018 communications plan
- Experiment with discount codes, sharing OSI membership to members of Affiliates
May
June
July
August
September
- Make go/nogo call on whether to hold face-to-face meeting in November (Board)
October
November
- Face-to-face Board Meeting
- Discuss plan for 20th anniversary celebration (Board)
- Form Elections Committee for 2018 (Board)
- Kick off end-of-year fundraising drive (Communications, Fundraising)
December
- Review voting system and ensure no changes are needed (Infrastructure, Elections Committee)
- Finalize list of individual and affiliate seats open in 2018 (Elections Committee)
- End-of-year fundraising drive (Communications, Fundraising)
January
- Announce schedule of upcoming elections and seats available
- Announce gap assessment of organizational capacity
- Push candidate profile template to slate
- Kick off membership drive, in advance of election (Membership)
February
- Open and complete election nomination period
- Decision on Advocacy Director
March
- Open and complete election voting period (Elections Committee, Communications)
April
- Elected board members take seats April 1, 2018
- Orient new board members (Board, Patrick)