The key to the success of the OSD was defining a meta-standard against which (relatively) objective qualification could be applied. We attempted the same thing with open standards and found it much harder. although we did devise the OSR http://opensource.org/osr which has proved fairly popular. 

If you can come up with widely accepted equivalents for Codes of Conduct and Certification of Origin then that might fall within OSI's remit, but I doubt we will want to "bless" any one formulation.

S.


On Friday, June 7, 2013, Alison Chaiken wrote:
Thanks to Luis, Simon and Richard for sharing their thoughts about the
Certificate of Origin.    Codes of Conduct is perhaps another area
where OSI could usefully have a compliance specification or approval
process similar to its role with open-source licenses:

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Python-Software-Foundation-publishes-Code-of-Conduct-1883853.html

Codes of Conduct and Certificates of Origin, like software licenses,
are areas where larger open-source projects want to adopt accepted
best practices, and smaller communities want to expend minimal effort.
      Perhaps OSI could serve as a central source of all the policies
that such communities need to consider, not just software licenses.

Best wishes,
Alison

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