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12 12  **Why should you elect me to the OSI Board**
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14 -I would like to push the OSI to do more activities in the education space. Growth of open source contributors requires nurturing. Providing open source lessons early in their education or careers, will create better long term contributors to the open source movement. I believe that OSI can leverage the strengths of its Affiliate and individual members and make an impact in healthcare and education around open-source. There are many ways in which I envision this can be done:
14 +I would like to push the OSI to do more activities in the education space. Growth of open source contributors requires nurturing. Providing open source lessons early in their education or careers, will create better long term contributors for the open source movement. I believe that OSI can leverage the strengths of its Affiliate and individual members and make an impact in healthcare and education around open-source. There are many ways in which I envision this can be done:
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16 16  1. Partnerships: Partner and coordinate with members who are doing work in open source training and education. Many undergraduate and graduate programs want to teach CS or other subjects using process skills that are gained in participating in open source communities. The partner projects can provide pathways to students in these communities.
17 17  1. Training content: We will share curriculum and content that can be used by professors, communities and contributors on soft skills (like being good community members) as well as hard skills (like versioning or QA or bug reporting).

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