OSI Board of Directors The Board of Directors of OSI consists of the following people (alphabetical order, except the board president is listed first): Eric S. Raymond (President) (PGP key) Eric designed the language and marketing tactics around which the OSI was formed. He and Bruce Perens co-founded the organization. Eric lives in Malvern, Pennsylvania, USA. Russell Nelson (PGP key) Russell Nelson has been giving away his software since he started writing it in 1974. Prior to his GPLed Freemacs package, there weren't many people to distribute it to. He really came to the fore with his Packet Driver Collection, begun while a staff member at Clarkson University. A GPLed set of DOS Ethernet drivers, they arguably put GPL'ed software on more CPUs than anything prior to Linux. McDonalds uses them in their cash registers, so they're literally a world-wide phenomenon. Supporting free software full-time since 1991, Russell lives and works at home in Potsdam, NY, where he's trying to figure out how to share his 384Kbps connection with his neighbors wirelessly Michael Tiemann Michael Tiemann is a true open source software pioneer. He made his first major open source contribution over a decade ago by writing the GNU C++ compiler, the first native-code C++ compiler and debugger. His early work created world-leading technologies and also informed the first open source business model. In 1989, Tiemann's technical expertise and entreprenurial spirit led him to co-found Cygnus Solutions, the first company to provide commercial support for open source software. During his ten years ag Cygnus, Tiemann contributed in a number of roles from President to hacker, helping to lead the company from a fledgling start-up to an admired open source leader. Tiemann is now the CTO of Red Hat, a leading supplier of Linux and Open Source software. In addition to his responsibilities at Red Hat, Tiemann serves on a number of boards, including the Open Source Initiative, the Embedded Linux Consortium, the Jabber Technical Advisory Board, the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board, and the Board of Directors of ActiveState Tool Corp. Tiemann also provides financial support to organizations that further the goals of software freedom, including the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the ArsDigita Foundation. Guido van Rossum Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python, one of the major free scripting languages (although he actually despises the word scripting and prefers to refer to Python as a very high level language). He created Python in the early 1990s at CWI in Amsterdam (the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands). He is still actively involved in the development of the language. In 1995 he moved to the US where he now lives and works in Reston, Virginia; originally for CNRI as a researcher, then in a brief unsuccessful stint for start-up BeOpen.com, and now for Digital Creations as Director of PythonLabs, the core Python development group hosted by the same company. You can send mail to the OSI board at osi@opensource.org. Larry Rosen provides legal services to Open Source Initiative. He is is both an attorney and a computer specialist. He has extensive experience teaching computer programming, and has been a department and product manager in the computer and communications industry. As an attorney, his specialty is technology, but he is also a skilled litigator and negotiator, and a legal advisor to individuals and companies throughout the California Bay Area. His web site can be found at http://www.rosenlaw.com.

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