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See our <a href="/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/about">about</a> and <a href="/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/history">history</a> pages for more.</p> <h3>Open Source Licensing</h3> <p>The OSI maintains <a href="/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/docs/osd">the Open Source Definition</a> and <a href="/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/licenses">the list of Open Source Initiative-approved licenses.</a></p> <h3>OSI Membership</h3> <p>OSI is in the process of transforming into a member-based organisation: <h2><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/members/join">JOIN OSI NOW!</a></strong></h2></p> <h3>News</h3> <p><i>September 6, 2012:</i> <strong>Five New Affiliates</strong> join from around the world. <i><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/node/637">Read more...</a></i></p> <p><i>July 18, 2012:</i> <strong>Individual Membership</strong>: The next step of OSI's transformation into a member organization starts today! <i>You</i> can become an Individual Member. <i><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/members/1207-release">Read more...</a></i></p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/affiliates"><img class="alignright wp-image-4981" align="right" style="border:2px solid black;margin:2px;" title="Current OSI Affiliates" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125013912im_/http://opensource.org/files/OSI-Affiliates-Slide-v1.4.png" alt="" height="170"/></a> <p><i>June 18, 2012:</i> <strong>Affiliate News</strong>: OSI is very pleased to welcome AFUL, The Document Foundation, Outercurve, OW2 and The Wikimedia Foundation as OSI Affiliates. Additionally, OSI invites eligible open source organisations to apply to be come Affiliates. <i><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/node/626">Read more...</a></i> <p><i>March 30, 2012:</i> <strong>New Affiliates</strong>: OSI is very pleased to welcome CENATIC and Debian to the Affiliate scheme for community groups. <i><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/node/609">Read more...</a></i> </p> <br/><hr/><br/> <h3>Recent Activities</h3> <p><i>December 15, 2012:</i> The Board are sad to hear of the sudden death of former OSI Board member Raj Mathur. <i><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/node/645">Read more...</a></i> <p><i>October 17, 2012:</i> <strong>OSI and OSHWA Sign Agreement</strong>: OSI and the Open Source Hardware Association have signed an agreement clarifying their mutual trademark position. <i><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/node/640">Read more...</a></i> <p><i>August 10, 2012:</i> <strong>OSI Signs Declaration of Internet Freedom</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/node/633"><i>Read more...</i></a> <p><i>April 25, 2012:</i> OSI joined with FSFE and others in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125013912/http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120425-02.en.html">a press statement</a> to call for the UK government to use <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/osr-intro">open-source-compatible open standards</a>. <i><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/node/616">Read more...</a></i> <p><i>March 30, 2012:</i> OSI now has <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125013912/https://plus.google.com/105842927239833380441" rel="publisher">a Google+ page</a>. If you use Google+, please add it to one of your circles to stay up-to-date with our news. <p><i>January 18, 2012:</i> The Open Source Initiative Board joined many other civil society organisations as co-signatories of this open letter <strong>expressing concern about SOPA and PIPA</strong>. <i><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125013912/http://www.opensource.org/node/599">Read more...</a></i></div></div></div> </div> <div class="clearfix"> <div class="links"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="region region-footer"> <div id="block-block-11" class="block block-block clearfix"> <div class="content"> <a rel="license" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125013912/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width: 0" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125013912im_/http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/3.0/88x31.png"/></a><br/>Opensource.org site content is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125013912/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License</a>.  | <a href="/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/ToS">Terms of Service</a> </div> </div> <div id="block-block-7" class="block block-block clearfix"> <div class="content"> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125013912js_/http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> <![CDATA[// ><!]]> </script><script type="text/javascript"> <![CDATA[// ><!]]> </script> </div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div>  <div id="sidebar-second" class="sidebar"> <div class="region region-sidebar-second"> <div id="block-blog-recent" class="block block-blog clearfix"> <h2 class="title">Recent blog posts</h2> <div class="content"> <div class="item-list"><ul><li class="first"><a href="/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/node/645">Obituary: Raj Mathur</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/node/640">OSI and OSHWA Sign Agreement</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/node/637">OSI Welcomes Five More Affiliates</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/node/633">OSI Signs Declaration of Internet Freedom</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/node/631">Open Source on G+</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/node/626">OSI Welcomes New Affiliates, Opens For Affiliate Applications</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/node/622">OSI Board Elects New Officers</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/node/619">Survey Results Re Individual Memberships</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/node/616">FRAND and Open Standards</a></li> <li class="last"><a href="/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/thank_you_michael_tiemann">Thank you, Michael Tiemann!</a></li> </ul></div><div class="more-link"><a href="/web/20130125013912/http://opensource.org/blog" title="Read the latest blog entries.">More</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div>  </body> </html>