<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yiv0304251431"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:OfficeDocumentSettings><o:AllowPNG/><o:PixelsPerInch>96</o:PixelsPerInch></o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467711027145_344802"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467711027145_344801"><div id="yiv0304251431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467711027145_340605"><span></span></div><div id="yiv0304251431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467711027145_340605" dir="ltr">Members</div><div id="yiv0304251431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467711027145_340605" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0304251431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467711027145_340605" dir="ltr">Sharing with you all our new OSMF policy guiding software choices for collaboration and work within the Board and Working Groups.</div><div id="yiv0304251431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467711027145_340605" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467711027145_344800"><a rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/FOSS_Policy" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467711027145_344799" class="edited-link-editor">http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/FOSS_Policy</a><br></span></div><div></div><div id="yiv0304251431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467711027145_340603"> </div><div id="yiv0304251431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467711027145_340603" dir="ltr">The topic of software use within the Foundation comes up from time to time, and early this year we flagged this as a useful piece of work for the Board to take up. At the in person meeting in Amsterdam, a few of us found a little time to produce a draft, and since then we've received feedback from working groups and revised. The intention is to guide, but not mandate, software choices, balancing our values of openness and do-ocracy.</div><div id="yiv0304251431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467711027145_340603" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0304251431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467711027145_340603" dir="ltr">Hope this is helpful and look forward to any feedback.</div><div id="yiv0304251431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467711027145_340603" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0304251431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467711027145_340603" dir="ltr">-Mikel & the Board</div><div id="yiv0304251431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467711027145_340603"><br></div><div class="yiv0304251431signature" id="yiv0304251431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467711027145_340601">* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron</div></div></div></div></div></body></html>