{"id":2429,"date":"2012-07-16T18:08:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T23:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2429"},"modified":"2012-09-04T23:23:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T04:23:55","slug":"open-source-initiative-open-for-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2012\/07\/16\/open-source-initiative-open-for-membership","title":{"rendered":"open source initiative: open for membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I last spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/webmink.com\/\">Simon Phipps<\/a> about the <a href=\"http:\/\/opensource.org\/\">OSI<\/a> (Open Source Initiative &#8211; opensource.org) and how they&#8217;re opening up for membership sometime on a cold february day, in brussels where we were for fosdem 2012. it seems like that time has come and yesterday I became an <a href=\"http:\/\/opensource.org\/members\">individual member<\/a> of the OSI. I presume that if you&#8217;re asking what your $40 fee gets, realise that they&#8217;re transforming the OSI, so it is an exciting time of change.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is likely that all this will be announced on wednesday at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscon.com\/oscon2012\">oscon<\/a>. Doing this yesterday I managed to grab a t-shirt. They also have OSI singlets\/tank tops this time around. 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