Here's a list of every qualified candidate for an OSI Board seat in the 2013 elections (sorted alphabetically by full name). Each candidate gets their own wiki page, on which they can write whatever they want to communicate to voters:

Alê Borba

Alexandre Alves Borba a.k.a Alê Borba

Community Manager at iMasters

Open Source Evangelist and Development Evangelist at iMasters. Working hard to grow the developers communities and Open Source Projects that we are envolved in. Columnist for Open Source at iMasters Magazine. Use to be a writer and editor of open source articles at the Espirito Livre Magazine (A Brazilian Open Source Magazine).

- Co-founder Coding For Change
 - Core developer at Postmon
 - Contributor at PHP-SP
 - Contributor at DojoSP
 - Tux-ES Member
 - GruPy-SP Member
 - Speaker at #youPix 2011 - “How to monetize your Tumblr”
 - Curator of Hackathon InterCon 2011
 - Speaker at 2nd Mercado Livre DevsDay - “API - Why Should I Care?”
 - Speaker at 14o. Encontro Locaweb (several) - “Coding Dojo - And So What?!”
 - Curator of Hackathon InterCon 2012
 - Speaker at III EATI - “From the Community to the Community” - Frederico Westphalen - RS
 - Speaker at 4o. Open Source Jam Google Brazil - “Coding For Change”
 - Juror at 1o. Concurso Nacional de Jogos - SEBRAE

AWS Professional
 Amazon Web Services Brazil
 December 2012
http://awshub.com.br/profissional/aleborba/

Thanks to consider me.

Chris Aniszczyk

Who am I?

I'm an engineer by trade with a passion for pragmatic open source and building communities. I first started out my open source experience by working heavily on Gentoo (Java/Accessibility) and then became an Eclipse committer where I led the Plug-in Development tools for many years. I currently sit on the Eclipse Foundation's Board of Directors representing the committer community and help the Eclipse Foundation move to Git/Gerrit recently.

At my current job, I created Twitter's open source program office from scratch a couple years ago and currently lead their open source efforts. Twitter is built on open source software and it's great to support communities we rely on (we also are a corporate sponsor of the OSI). It's also been a fun challenge be part of a company that has been growing fast and has open sourced over 100 projects over the past few years. If you'd like to learn more about Twitter's open source operation, I recommend looking at a presentation I gave recently at Monkigras: Open Source Craft at Twitter.

I also love to run and try to keep a sub 20 minute 5km time with all the travel I do

You can reach out to me on Twitter at @cra or read my blog for more information about me.

Why am I running?

I'm running for the board of the OSI because I love open source and would like to make a larger impact in seeing the OSI reach out more to industry. I would like to see more companies, universities and government offices establish “open source offices” (or programs) and have proper means of participating and giving back to open source. I'd even like to replicate the open source program I setup at Twitter so other companies can setup their own open source offices. Furthermore, as the industry is changing, I would like to see the OSI not only focus on open source software, but realize that there's more out there in terms of hardware and data. I also have a selfish interest in seeing the OSI support efforts around open data since I'm looking to start an open data program at Twitter soon and I'd like to see the OSI shape some policies in this regard (we could benefit from the collaboration). Finally as the OSI transitions to a member organization, I would like to find a way to attract more corporate members who benefit from the OSI on top of individual members.

Thank you for considering me as a candidate and feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions.

Doug Gaff

Sr. Director of Technology, NPR

I got my start in the open source community in 2005 when I joined the Eclipse Community as a Project Lead for Eclipse projects focused on embedded software development. From 2005-2009, I served in several roles in the community:

• Program Committee Chair for EclipseCon 2008, Program Committee 2006 and 2007
• Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors, 2008 and 2009
• Project Lead for DSDP (now archived), 2005-2009
• Eclipse Planning and Architecture Council Member, 2005-2009

While working on Eclipse, I helped build Wind River's adoption and contribution strategy for the CDT and the DSDP projects, and I was responsible for Wind River's staffing of open source contributions. My DSDP Blog.

At National Public Radio, my team is responsible for NPR member station digital technologies, including web and mobile sites, streaming, analytics, pledging, scheduling, and content APIs. I've helped NPR develop an open source contribution policy/strategy so that all tech teams inside NPR are able to easily engage in open source communities. Our recent contributions include a Wordpress plugin and set of Drupal modules to support the NPR API.

Finally, I'll be speaking at OSCon 2013 on how you can increase open source adoption and contribution in your company.

I'm running for the Board of Directors for OSI because I love Open Source Software and Hardware. OSI has been an excellent resource for information and education around open source, and I frequently refer people here to learn about the myriad of CopyLeft licenses. I'm excited about OSI moving to member-based organization, and I want to be a part of that transition.

Thanks for considering me in the election.

Jeff Creswell,

Applications Engineer at iBiquity Digital Corporation

Hello OSI,

My name is Jeff Creswell and I am passionate about open source technology. I just graduated from Montclair State University with my Master's degree in Computer Science and have been continuing my studies independently since then, focusing on artificial intelligence, graphics processing, and robotics. My expertise is more in the domain of software, but I do also enjoy working with open source hardware like the Arduino microcontroller.

As a wearer of many hats with respect to open source I believe I can bring a useful perspective to the OSI board. I have worked in a two-man indie game development studio for a few years now in my free time while working full time with an intellectual property-driven DSP company, and I try to commit useful and/or interesting modules from my various personal projects to my public github account whenever I can. Essentially, my composite development environment ranges from totally open source to super-secret source, so I understand both the philosophy behind strict open source licenses like the GPL and the utility behind more permissive licenses like MIT, BSD, and ZLIB.

My favorite systems are embedded, preferably within robots!

Jonas Öberg

My story

In 1993, I spent the summer learning English at the university in Swansea. I came back from Swansea with a suitcase full of floppy disks carrying portions of Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X, as well as anything else I could lay my hands on from the Funet FTP archive in Finland.

Later, in 1999, I spent some sleepless nights at sofas in the then AI Lab on 545 Technology Square in Cambridge, MA. I went with Richard Stallman, Tim Ney, and others from the Free Software Foundation to The Bazaar in the Javits Center in New York. It was the first Free and Open Source Software exhibition I attended and while it was certainly not the last, it remains as a fond memory of the early days of our movement.

Hi, my name is Jonas Öberg, and I am a candidate for the Board of the Open Source Initiative.

Iam also:

• A fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation
• A founding member of the Free Software Foundation Europe
• A (retired) Debian and Perl hacker

You may know me from places such as:

• Creative Commons, where I was the Regional Coordinator for Europe (and sometimes Central Asia) (2011-2013)
• University of Gothenburg, where I was a lecturer in Software Engineering (2006-2011)
• Free Software Foundation Europe, where I was the Vice President (2001-2008)
• Swedish Society for Free Culture and Software, where I am the CEO (2005-)

I'm running for the board of the Open Source Initiative since I believe that my experience from both the Free and Open Source community, and the Free Culture community, would benefit the larger board and the work of the Open Source Initiative. I believe that our community today is too fragmented; sometimes for valid reasons, but often because we do not communicate enough between the various groups. It would be useful to change this and this is one of the activities that I would like to engage in in the Board: to increase the quality of the relations not only between the Free and Open Source communities (to the extent they are separate), but also between culture, hardware, data, government, and all other fields that are using (and sometimes abusing) the Free* and Open* namespace.

As a Fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation, my focus today is on making licenses such as Creative Commons work better by embedding attribution and license metadata in digital works and thus making attribution an automated function of the tools that we use. You can follow my work on this at Commons Machinery.

By the way, the image of me used above, was taken by Kristina Alexanderson and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0.

• Julie Russell
• Luis Ibanez
• Richard Fontana

Candidates should be aware of the responsibilities expected of OSI Board members.