Board of Directors Invitation Letters

12/30/14

Dear Alicia,

I have brought up an invitation to serve on Open Source Ecology's Board of Directors at the 2013 Open Hardware Summit, and I would like to follow up on this. In the immediate future, Open Source Ecology will be appointing 1 or 2 members to its Board of As the leader of the Open Source Hardware Association, you have demonstrated a visible commitment and ethical leadership in furthering the goals of the budding open source hardware movement. Because of your commitment, we are requesting you to give serious consideration to joining our Board. The process would involve our current Board voting on your acceptance. The term of office will be one year, with evaluation after that period, with intent to continue your position pending satisfactory service.

The next several years promise to be exciting ones for OSE, as we continue the development of the Global Village Construction Set. Last year, we have received our charitable 501(c)3 status from the IRS. This year, we have developed a revenue model for sustaining OSE independent from foundation funding - in the form of our open hardware, Extreme Manufacturing workshops. Our goals for next year include scaling this model by adding a layer of deep immersion training for future developers. This is consistent with our goals of creating a culture of open, collaborative development as an accelerated route to innovation. Our overall goal is to develop a generalized, open source product development methodology that any individual or company can use to solve problems faster than they are created.

The Board of Directors will play a central role in this important work. Because of your experience and involvement in the open source community, we feel you are well qualified to be nominated for a board position - and to protect the integrity of OSE's open source ethic. As you consider this opportunity, we ask you review the board director position description at http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors_Role_Description. As you will see, we are expecting the board to be an active one.

A primary responsibility of board directors is to participate in the development of policy and major decision-making at board meetings held at least 2 times a year. Another key responsibility is to be active on an ongoing basis in a committee of the board. This year, board nominees will be asked to make that committee commitment before they are voted onto the board.

If you wish to be considered as a candidate for the Board of Directors, please respond to affirm. Our first meeting of the year will be in January.

Sincerely,

Marcin Jakubowski OSE ED Designated Director