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| 1 | Hi! I'm Thierry Carrez. I'm running for election for an affiliate member | ||
| 2 | seat on OSI board of directors, on behalf of the Open Infrastructure | ||
| 3 | Foundation (formerly known as the OpenStack Foundation). Continue | ||
| 4 | reading to learn more about me and why I'm running! | ||
| 5 | \\Bio | ||
| 6 | ~-~-- | ||
| 7 | \\I'm 48, based in France, working from home on open source software in a | ||
| 8 | small village since 2008. A Mechanical Systems engineer by trade, I'm | ||
| 9 | currently the VP of Engineering at the Open Infrastructure | ||
| 10 | Foundation[0], in charge of the health of the open source projects we | ||
| 11 | support. Prior to that, I've been a contractor helping with OpenStack | ||
| 12 | Release Management (2010-2013), a Technical Lead for Ubuntu Server at | ||
| 13 | Canonical (2008-2010), and an IT Manager at various companies before that. | ||
| 14 | \\[0] [[https:~~/~~/openinfra.dev>>url:https://openinfra.dev]] | ||
| 15 | \\My relationship with F/OSS | ||
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| 17 | \\I've been using free and open source software in one form or another, | ||
| 18 | personally and professionally, since 1995. I started with Red Hat Linux, | ||
| 19 | then moved to Gentoo Linux in 1998. Noticing a gap in vulnerability | ||
| 20 | management, I proposed to help and started actively contributing to | ||
| 21 | Gentoo Linux in 2002, becoming the Security team manager, driving the | ||
| 22 | reform[1] toward an open governance, and finally getting elected to the | ||
| 23 | Gentoo Council in 2005. | ||
| 24 | \\[1] | ||
| 25 | [[https:~~/~~/mgorny.pl/articles/the-story-of-gentoo-management.html#gentoo-council>>url:https://mgorny.pl/articles/the-story-of-gentoo-management.html#gentoo-council]] | ||
| 26 | \\I got hired by Canonical in 2008 to work from home as a technical lead | ||
| 27 | on Ubuntu Server. In 2010 I followed a couple of ex-Canonical folks to | ||
| 28 | work on a nascent open source alternative to the big proprietary clouds, | ||
| 29 | called OpenStack. This project was formed on strong principles of open | ||
| 30 | collaboration: open source of course, but also open development | ||
| 31 | (accessibility to all), open design (design done in the open), and open | ||
| 32 | community (any contributor can get elected to governing bodies). When | ||
| 33 | the OpenStack Foundation was formed in 2013, I was part of the initial | ||
| 34 | staff there, and still am to this day. | ||
| 35 | \\Early 2019, the OSI's legitimacy came under attack as pseudo-open | ||
| 36 | licenses were developed to preserve specific business models. This | ||
| 37 | prompted the OSI to put out a strong Affirmation of the Open Source | ||
| 38 | Definition[2], which the OpenStack Foundation joined and signed. To | ||
| 39 | further support the legitimacy of the OSI[3], the OpenStack Foundation | ||
| 40 | formally became an Affiliate organization of the OSI in 2019. | ||
| 41 | \\[2] [[https:~~/~~/opensource.org/OSD_Affirmation>>url:https://opensource.org/OSD_Affirmation]] | ||
| 42 | [3] [[https:~~/~~/opensource.org/node/1003>>url:https://opensource.org/node/1003]] | ||
| 43 | \\Why I'm running | ||
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| 45 | \\Open source in 2021 is at a crossroads. Its benefits for users and the | ||
| 46 | strength of its collaboration model has made it very popular and | ||
| 47 | successful against its proprietary alternatives. However, as we were | ||
| 48 | "winning", the landscape evolved. Software companies trying to | ||
| 49 | capitalize on the "open source" brand have created development models | ||
| 50 | and played licensing tricks that make them much closer to proprietary | ||
| 51 | software than to openly-developed open source software. Worse, they | ||
| 52 | actively dilute the meaning of "open" and "open source" by trying to | ||
| 53 | associate their software with it, and attacking the legitimacy of the | ||
| 54 | Open Source Definition and the OSI as its guardian. | ||
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| 56 | The old binary distinction (proprietary vs. F/OSS) is no longer enough. | ||
| 57 | Licenses are still very much necessary, but no longer sufficient. We | ||
| 58 | need a richer taxonomy to describe what's out there in 2021, and inform | ||
| 59 | potential users of their exact rights and benefits. Beyond the license | ||
| 60 | the code is released under, *how* the software is produced actually | ||
| 61 | matters. Open source that is closed to contributions, or under a | ||
| 62 | copyright license agreement, is very different from openly-developed, | ||
| 63 | openly-governed open source. | ||
| 64 | \\I have been advocating for going beyond licenses for a while[4]. I now | ||
| 65 | think the OSI is the best place to drive that fight for the future of | ||
| 66 | open source. If elected, I'll to bring my experience of Open Source | ||
| 67 | project management and governance, as well as my experience of Open | ||
| 68 | Source Foundation boards, to the OSI. I intend to drive the discussion | ||
| 69 | on evolving the OSI scope to go beyond open source licenses and into | ||
| 70 | taking a more active role at classifying the various types of open | ||
| 71 | source, highlighting the benefits of each. | ||
| 72 | \\[4] [[https:~~/~~/opensource.org/node/1006>>url:https://opensource.org/node/1006]] | ||
| 73 | \\More about me | ||
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| 75 | \\* 'Open Source in 2019', an OSI guest post with a call to action to | ||
| 76 | build the next decade of open source: [[https:~~/~~/opensource.org/node/1006>>url:https://opensource.org/node/1006]] | ||
| 77 | \\* 'Restoring the spirit of Open source', a presentation at State of the | ||
| 78 | Source 2020: [[https:~~/~~/www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV1FmWzAOY4>>url:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV1FmWzAOY4]] | ||
| 79 | \\* 'Why open infrastructure matters', a main track presentation at FOSDEM | ||
| 80 | 2020: [[https:~~/~~/www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg1cC1o7yIo>>url:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg1cC1o7yIo]] | ||
| 81 | \\* Personal blog: [[https:~~/~~/ttx.re>>url:https://ttx.re]] | ||
| 82 | \\* Twitter: @tcarrez | ||
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