Welcoming the New Executive Director!

Members – April 2026 Dear OSI supporters, The news you’ve all been waiting for has arrived – OSI’s new Executive Director, Duane O’Brien, is on the job effective April 13th. Warm regards, Deborah Bryant Interim Executive Director, OSI News from the OSI Welcoming Duane O’Brien as Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative Message from OSI Board Chair Tracy Hinds On behalf of the Board of Directors, I’m thrilled to welcome Duane O’Brien as OSI’s new Executive Director. ClearlyDefined: A Three-Year Roadmap for Sustainability and Growth A three-year roadmap proposal developed by AboutCode in collaboration with the community to strengthen ClearlyDefined’s technical foundations, expand its capabilities, and grow its global adoption. Free Software Foundation Europe: Full speed into conference season with a heartfelt “Thank you” KDE: Celebrating 30 years of KDE Linux Foundation: Introducing Project Glasswing: Giving Maintainers Advanced AI to Secure the World’s Code Linux Professional Institute: LPI Publishes 2025 Annual Review Matrix Foundation: The first Public Annual Report is out! Functional Functional Always active The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the r or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.