Open Path

by Chad Whitacre

How to Vote in the 2025 OSI Election

By Chad Whitacre ❧ Published on February 27, 2025
tl;dr Join the Open Source Initiative (OSI) before March 7. Watch your email for a link. Vote before March 17.
Disclosure / advertisement: I work for Sentry.

I’m running in the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Board of Directors election. I intend to say more next week about why you should vote and what I am bringing to the table. For now I wanted to get the word out about how to vote.

Voting is open to all dues-paying members of the OSI. There are two “full” (aka paid) membership levels:

  1. Supporting for $50/year, and
  2. Professional for $300/yr.

There is a Basic tier that’s free but doesn’t carry voting privileges. The link to vote will go out in email on March 7, and voting closes on March 17 at 5:00 UTC. The candidates should be announced tomorrow (February 28) and the results should be announced by March 24.

If you care about Open Source—whether Open Source AI, or open-washing, or the Open Source sustainability crisis, or any of a number of other issues—join OSI before March 7 and watch your email to vote in the election by March 17. Let’s move Open Source forward together!

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