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The OpenSocial Foundation is a non-profit corporation created to sustain the free and open development of OpenSocial specifications. The links below provide more sources of information about the foundation and how it works:
- OpenSocial Foundation FAQ
- OpenSocial Foundation Bylaws (download)
- OpenSocial Foundation Intellectual Property Rights Policy (download)
- OpenSocial Foundation Initial Specification Patent Non-assertion Agreement (download)
- OpenSocial Foundation Designator's Agreement (download)
- OpenSocial Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
To formally get involved with the foundation, fill out the OpenSocial Foundation Membership Application.
To get involved in the community, please visit the OpenSocial Community forum
Current board members are listed here.
Contributions & Intellectual Property
Since participation is open to anyone, to help ensure OpenSocial remains freely implementable by all, the OpenSocial Foundation has created an intellectual property rights management structure to enable a broad range of contributions while still helping protect implementers of the spec. This means that, prior to contributing to the specification, individuals must submit the OpenSocial Foundation's Contribution Licensing Agreement. Additionally, prior to finalizing the specification, all contributors must submit the OpenSocial Foundation's Non-Assert Agreement. In the case of corporate contributions, the proper document is the OpenSocial Foundation's Corporate Contribution Licensing Agreement.
As an aside, in the interest of transparency and ease of shepherding, each form has a publicly viewable snapshot of the entries (sanitized so we're not publishing sensitive information like phone numbers):