OSI publishes election retrospective

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has quietly published"takeaways" from its internal retrospective on the recent boardof directors election as an updateto the March blogpost that announced the new members of the board. The election wascontroversial, in part, due to poor communication and OSI changing theelection rules and disqualifying several candidates after the electionfinished. LWN coveredthe election and results in March. The update commits to improvementsin communication and candidate selection:

What this election exposed was the need for the organization to alsoassess whether candidates were fully eligible to run and prepared tobe seated on the board before voting begins. This is something we willadd to the election timeline next year. While we have not finishedfiguring out all of the requirements for that assessment, part of itwill be asking candidates to sign a Candidate Agreement at nominationtime. We also have some ideas on ways for potential candidates to havemore information even before submitting a nomination.

In a related note, there is a petitionasking OSI to publish the "complete, unaltered" results of theboard of directors election. Thanks to Josh Triplett for the tip onthe petition.