The Open Source Initiative (OSI) Board has announced that five significant organizations have been granted Affiliate Membership of the organization, including the first User Group.
The new members include:
- AFUL, Association Francophone des Utilisateurs de Logiciels Libres (French speaking Libre Software Users' Association)
- The Document Foundation, home to the LibreOffice community
- The OuterCurve Foundation, working to enable the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities
- OW2, the open source community for infrastructure software
- The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, a top-ten Internet property.
The organization also announced that the Affiliate Membership is now open to applications from any eligible open source group.
Swapnil Bhartiya
A free software fund-a-mental-ist and Charles Bukowski fan, Swapnil also writes fiction and tries to find cracks in a proprietary company's 'paper armours'. He is a big movie buff and prefers listening to music at such high volumes that he's gone partially deaf when it comes to identifying anything positive about proprietary companies. You can follow him on Twitter, Google+ & Facebook. You can write to him on editor at muktware dot com
