Open Source Initiative
Open Source Initiative
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About this organization
Mission
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation with global scope formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community. Open source enables a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is higher quality, better reliability, greater flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in. One of our most important activities is as a standards body, maintaining the Open Source Definition for the good of the community. The Open Source Initiative Approved License trademark and program creates a nexus of trust for developers, users, corporations and governments.
About
Open Source Initiative acts as fiscal sponosoree for two active projects in 2018. First, ClearlyDefined began development in 2018. ClearlyDefined is an open source project to crowd-source the gathering, curation, and upstreaming of licensing and security (and more) data about free and open source projects. The ultimate goal being to help projects thrive by more clearly defining their contract and status. All revenue was from donations. Second, Snowdrift.coop is a crowdmatching, open source program that matches donors to projects. All revenue was in the form of contributions.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The filing sets forth the mission of the non-profit as “To (1) educate the public about the advantages of open source software [software that users are free to modify and redistribute]; (2) encourage the software community to participate in open source software development; (3) identify how software users' objectives are best served through open source software; (4) persuade organizations and software authors to distribute source software freely they otherwise would not distribute; (5) provide resources for sharing information about open source software and licenses; (6) assist attorneys to craft open source licenses; (7) manage a certification program to allow use of one or more certification marks in association with open source software; and (8) advocate for open source principles.”.
When detailing its responsibilities, they were listed as: “Educate the public about open source software and maintain the open source definition.”.
- The state in which the non-profit is legally permitted to operate is CA.
- The number of employees reported by the non-profit on their form as of 2020 is 2.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are between $100,000 and $250,000.
- Revenue is between $500,000 and $1,000,000+.
- Revenue less expenses is $195,049.
- The organization has 13 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1998.
- The organization pays $117,603 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $50,911 in fundraising expenses.
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