Bruce Perens running for election to OSI board

[Greg Rundlett]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Bruce Dawson <jbd at codemeta.com> wrote:

> Greg Rundlett wrote:
> > Bruce Perens would like your help to get elected to the Board of
> Directors
> > of the OSI (an organization he helped found).   Sign Bruce's petition
> > http://techp.org/p/7/
> >
> > http://opensource.org/board
> > http://opensource.org/history
> >
> Thanks for the "heads-up" Greg.
>
> However, it appears the techp.org/p/7 site wants to use my signature for
> *all* their lobbying efforts. At least that's the impression I get when
> I read the petition. I had to go through the *entire* registration
> process before I found a sentence indicating they'll send me an
> email/solicitation before using my name in a petition. At least I'm
> assuming they'll let me "opt-out" of a petition they're running.
>
> --Bruce <http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/>
>

I don't think you have to worry about Bruce Perens crusading with your
implied support.  I can tell you my experience is that Bruce doesn't pester
people with lots of e-mail.

I signed a similar petion in 11/06 when Bruce (Perens) wrote an open letter
to Novell (which I think I found out about through Linux Journal).

Since then I've received exactly two e-mails from Bruce: one in 3/07 to
support efforts against software patents, and again today regarding the OSI
board election.  Each e-mail was an invitation to read about the issue and
choose whether I wanted to sign the petition.

Anyway, I just wanted folks to know that this site is not the type of site
that spews daily alerts.

-- Greg
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