Of the seven total board meetings held in 2011 (January through July) by Open So...
On December 4, 2009, Ryan Ozimek, then Secretary of OSM, Inc. posted this blog i...
Allison Fine, one of the authors of The Networked Nonprofit described an uninfor...
I just don't get it!
Board members at OSM haven't done the following in the las...
Most boards are driven by mission and the will to serve, but there are boards th...
The first mention about an assistant treasure position in the 2011 board minutes...
Ooops sorry again, it wasn't you asking OSM Board, it was all the rest of us ask...
No matter how many times I point out the many opportunities for OSM, they just g...
Alice Grevet, a board member and Assistant Secretary of the Open Source Matters,...
So here we are once again. Once again we are promised that the new organizationa...
It's downright comical! On September 29th, Alice Grevet posted in the Open Sourc...
I join you in that hope!
Sometime yesterday or today, the minutes for the Janua...
Back from the 75-85° weather in Costa Rica, Panama, Antilles, Bahamas, Aruba, an...
This is the mission statement developed in Germany in 2008 by OSM and the core t...
I find it a little more then curious that the President of OSM has not taken par...
Alice Grevet started maintaining the minutes for the OSM board meetings starting...
If you haven't read this blog by Paul Orwig written on September 29, 2011, you s...
For the second time this calendar and fiscal year, OSM has released most of the ...
So our quick look at the published financial reports raised questions aboout whe...
On October 18, 2011, Paul Orwig who had originally started a discussion group on...
Sometime after 5 am CDT today July 6, 2012, Alice Grevet posted the approved boa...
What we have here is a failure to communicate. Actually, I am communicating just...
Still waiting for:
1Publication of the 2012 budget now technically overdue by 1...
Have you had experiences relevant to the performance of a board or an issue the ...
According to the May 29, 2011 published OSM budget, the sponsorship line item wa...
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I have blogged quite a bit about OSM's failure not only to keep it's promises of...
On October 30, 2011, Paul Orwig summarized the next steps for the proposed reorg...
Some time ago I wrote a piece within the Open Source Matter's JPeople group abou...
What the heck is Groupthink?
Coined by now-deceased psychologist and researcher...
In lawmaking, "caption bills" that propose minor...
Some time ago in JPeople in the Open Source Matters, Inc. group I requested a co...
Good NewsYou may have not noticed but OSM published their March 20, 2012 board m...
New York State law vests the power to manage Nonprofit Corporations in the Board...
It's all about disenfranchisement isn't it? That, combined with a severe account...
I am still trying to figure out how the board of OSM went from wanting to instal...
It takes so long to get OSM to release the minutes of their board meetings and t...
Today (December 14, 2011), the New York Charities Bureau published the Open Sour...
I must have missed the Open Source Matters, Inc. publication of the 2010 Federal...
That’s definitely the tag line for every magician during his or her magic show. ...
If you go to all of the trouble to establish goals and objectives with teams - e...
"Where's the beef?" is a catchphrase in the United States and Canada. The phrase...
I had a great time for the last three weeks ignoring my laptop, my smart p...
... it might as well be!
Yesterday, Paul Orwig posted to the Google Joomla Lead...
If you haven't kept up with the changes that are already implemented for the new...
That's gotta be it!
What other explanation would there be for failure to post t...
A posting by Robert L. Borosage in the Huffington Post accuses Republican Candid...
Leaders shouldn’t ignore the elephant in the room or the herds of elephants wand...
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OSM self-proclaims “transparent” communications, however investigation reveals t...
As I discussed in this blog, OSM Don't Need No Stinkin Transparency, I had real ...
Here we go again. Empty promises over and over seem to be the rule in th...
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In several other areas of Joomla! leadership, we continue to see schedules and p...
I continually question why the minutes of the board meetings are not completed i...
They must, really!
In the FAQs section of the New York Charities Bureau, this Q...
I spent several weeks in the Caribbean towards the end of February and the begin...
No minutes for October have surfaced. It appears OSM held a board meeting at a s...
In the March, 2012 Joomla Community Magazine interview with Paul Orwig, former T...
Hmmm, that would assume that OSM board members are actually capable of feeling s...
Let's see, where are we? Oh, yes, it's the end of the first week of January 2012...
To check out a newly built crash test dummy, first comes the Head Drop Test--and...
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained...
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Finally after over promising and undelivering over and over again, Jacques Rentz...
To put "lipstick on a pig" is a rhetorical expression, used to convey the messag...
I hadn't planned on blogging again now that OSM is not overseen, can appoint its...
If you haven't taken the time to read the new and revised OSM Bylaws, you should...
You can picture it can't you? I certainly can. For a number of years now I have ...
In Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, the silly season has come to refer ...
On August 6, 2013 Jacques Rentzke posted in the Google Joomla Leadership Team Gr...
Twenty-two years ago John Gray, Ph.D wrote the highly popular (his books have so...
Trade unions, corporations, humanitarian organizations, schools, hospitals, poli...
Nothing has changed at OSM - This poem sums up their actions (or lack) nic...
Feel like you are not "part of the conversation" surrounding Joomla lately? Well...
Victor Drover finally published the December 2, 2014 Budget Vs Actuals report on...
I don't get it! We now have the largest Opens Source Matters, Inc. board we have...
For a number of years now Open Source Matters, Inc. has done a really poor job o...
You probably didn't know that OSM published their 2013 New York Charities Bureau...
Here we are in April. In at least some places across the US it is starting to ac...
Just recently on the Joomla Forum, Michael Babker (Past: Release Lead, Security ...
After complete silence it appears there has been some communication about nearin...
It looks like the Open Source Matters Board may be making some progress in its n...
It has been quite a while since I used my bully articles to try and influe...