[Ground-station] OSI membership

[Michelle Thompson]

Greetings Sado-san, it is so good to meet you.

I would like to assist you in your goal of OSI membership. ORI would be
happy to provide a reference.

-Michelle W5NYV




On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 7:26 PM Bruce Perens via Ground-Station
<ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:

> Hi Sado-san,
>
> It is good to hear from you, and I hope to get to Japan again someday. I
> am copying this to Michelle Thompson. She is the current CEO of Open
> Research Institute, which is an organizational member of the OSI. Michelle,
> Sado was my host during a speaking trip to Japan.
>
> I have no evidence that the failure in the recent OSI election was a
> buyout. That is just an issue that we in the community have been afraid of.
>
>     Thanks
>
>     Bruce
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 7:14 PM Shuji Sado <sado at osdn.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It's been a while.  How have you been?
>>
>> By the way, we are deeply concerned about the buyout which happened
>> during the OSI board election.
>>
>> I only belong to license-discus ML, so I don't know much about this
>> election.
>> However, I have always thought that it is impossible to avoid people who
>> are not in favor of
>> free culture become members of OSI.  Could this be the cause of the
>> incident?
>>
>> Just at this moment, Open Source Group Japan has been discussing whether
>> we should join OSI, and
>> I myself have also changed my view and now I think that all free
>> believers around the world should come together at OSI.
>>
>> I checked the requirements for affiliate members and learned that I need
>> a recommendation from an existing member.
>> Could I ask you to recommend us?
>>
>> https://opensource.jp/en/
>>
>> This link leads to a page with the description of Open Source Group Japan.
>> We are an organization that has been active for 20 years and has been
>> releasing Japanese translations
>> for open-source licenses.  We have also started managing trademarks for
>> open source projects in Japan.
>> In relation to that, we often provide legal supports to various projects.
>>
>> It is because of this reason that we acted as an intermediary when you
>> visited the Japanese Patent Office.
>>
>> Could you kindly consider recommending us?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Shuji Sado
>> Open Source Group Japan, Chairman
>> sado at osdn.net
>> sado at opensource.jp
>>
>>
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