Free/Libre/Open Source Software Foundations

In January 2005, David Ascher, Brad Kuhn, Allison Randal, Sam Ruby, and a handful of others met to talk about Perl. As usually happens, they ended up talking about a great deal more than just Perl. As they talked they realized that the PSF, ASF, FSF, and TPF are all doing similar things in various different ways. Some ways are more efficient than others, some are easier to maintain, and some don't quite work but people keep doing them because they haven't found a better way. They found it incredibly valuable to share their experiences, their plans, their hopes, their disappointments. So valuable, that they decided to invite a larger group to join them in a series of meetings focused on FLOSS community leadership. From these small beginnings, we've grown to a group of 150 members representing over 50 different open source organizations and projects.

Best of the Foundations mailing list

Over the years, many subjects have come up on the foundations mailing list which have resulted in discussion, argument and shared experiences. This page is a link to the origin of those mailing list discussions in the archives, with the general topic of the discussion. Ideally, we would have pages summarising these discussions into a coherent whole. We could turn it into a book ;) This list is up to date as of April 2008.

FLOSS Foundations at OSCON 2008

The face-to-face meetings are a place for the people who try to Get Stuff Done at various open source projects and non-profits around open source to congregate, share information, and pick each others' brains. This year we met July 19th and 20th in Portland, Oregon (USA). The meeting will be held immediately before OSCON, at the Oregon Convention Center in room D132.

Read the notes.

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