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Russell Nelson (born March 21, 1958) is an American computer programmer. He was a founding board member of the Open Source Initiative and briefly served as its president in 2005.[10]

Russ Nelson
Russ Nelson
Board of Directors, Open Source Initiative
In office
February 1998[1]  April 6, 2011[2]
Succeeded byJim Jagielski[2]
President, Open Source Initiative
In office
January 31, 2005[3]  February 23, 2005[4][5]
Preceded byEric S. Raymond[6]
Succeeded byMichael Tiemann[4]
Personal details
Born (1958-03-21) March 21, 1958 (age 64)[7]
Political partyLibertarian Party[8]
OccupationSoftware developer
Known forBoard member and former president of Open Source Initiative[9]
Websitehttp://russnelson.com/

Career


Nelson wrote code for some programs: In 1983, he co-wrote a MacPaint clone, Painter's Apprentice, with Patrick Naughton.[11] Nelson was the author of Freemacs (a variant of Emacs used by FreeDOS).[12] While attending university, Nelson began developing the collection of drivers later commercially released as the "Crynwr Collection".[13] In 1991, Nelson founded Crynwr Software, a company located in Potsdam, New York,[14] supporting deployment of large-scale e-mail systems, development of packet drivers, Linux kernel drivers,[15] and reverse engineering of embedded systems.[16]

In 1998, Nelson became one of the six first members to serve on the board of directors of the Open Source Initiative (holding 11 members by 2016).[9][17] In February 2005, he became the president of the Open Source Initiative, but resigned a few days later (remaining on the board), on February 23, 2005, after publishing a controversial posting[18] on his personal blog titled "Blacks are Lazy?".[19][6][4][20] Nelson apologized to those who perceived the post (which he withdrew because it "was not well written"[21]) as racist, and indicated that he did not believe himself to be politically savvy enough for the role of president.[4] Six years later, in March 2011, he departed the board due to term limits on the position.[22][non-primary source needed]

In July 2010, Nelson worked on monitors to measure water quality.[23]


Personal


Nelson is the son of Russell Edward Nelson and Gladys Jacobsen Nelson.[24] He used to be a Quaker,[25] He has since disavowed the religion for political reasons.[26] Nelson is a pacifist, and a member of the Libertarian Party of the United States.[8]


References


  1. "History of the OSI". Archived from the original on 2007-09-12. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  2. "OSI Board Meeting Minutes, Wednesday, April 6, 2011". Archived from the original on 2011-12-12. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  3. Corbet, Jon. "Interview: OSI's new president". Archived from the original on 2008-09-08. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  4. Varghese, Sam (2005-03-09). "Racism row forces open source head out". The Age. Retrieved 2008-07-11.
  5. Vaughan-Nichols, Stephen. "New OSI President Steps Down". Retrieved 2022-04-09. Russ Nelson, the newly elected president of the Open Source Initiative, resigned his office retroactively to Feb. 23[, 2005].
  6. LaMonica, Martin (2005-02-01). "Open-source leader steps aside at industry group". CNET News. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
  7. Nelson, Russ. "Russ Nelson's Home Page". russnelson.com. Retrieved 2011-04-01.
  8. Chris DiBona; Danese Cooper; Mark Stone, eds. (1 November 2005). "List of Contributors". Open sources 2.0: the continuing evolution. O'Reilly Media, Inc. pp. xix. ISBN 978-0-596-00802-4. Retrieved 1 April 2011. Libertarian.
  9. Tiemann, Michael (2006-09-19). "History of the OSI". Opensource.org. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
  10. OPEN SOURCE INITIATIVE (OSI) ANNOUNCES EXPANDED PROGRAMS, COUNSEL, AND BOARD
  11. Patrick Naughton (1997). Java Handbook. Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited. ASIN B007ITC4G4.
  12. "EMACS". FreeDOS - Software List. freedos.org. Archived from the original on 2007-09-15.
  13. Bill Machrone and Michael J. Miller (1991-12-31). "8th Annual Awards for Technical Excellence". PC Magazine. Vol. 10, no. 22. New York, NY: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. p. 136.
  14. Nelson, Russ (August 1998). "Open Source Software Model". Linux Journal (52). Retrieved 2011-04-01.
  15. Paul Gortmaker (1995-11-18). Linux Ethernet-Howto. Linux Documentation Project. Retrieved 2016-10-31.Linus Torvalds (1998-09-16). CREDITS. Linux Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
  16. Paul Wallich (2001-09-03). "Mindstorms Not Just a Kid's Toy". IEEE. Retrieved 2016-10-31.Patrick Reynolds (1997-12-04). "The Connectix Quickcam Technical FAQ". Retrieved 2016-10-31.
  17. Biancuzzi, Federico (2008-02-12). "A Look Back at 10 Years of OSI". onlamp.com. Retrieved 2011-04-01.
  18. Nelson, Russ (2005-02-07). ""Blacks are Lazy?"". Russ Nelson's personal blog. Archived from the original on 2005-03-08. Retrieved 2022-04-08. Black people are lazy in that they work less hard than whites
  19. Stuart, Finlayson. "Open source chief makes swift exit after "racist" gaffe". Information & Data Manager (IDM). Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  20. "racism?".
  21. Nelson, Russ (2005-03-08). ""Withdrawn"". Russ Nelson's personal blog. Archived from the original on 2005-03-08. Retrieved 2022-04-08. It was not well written and I have withdrawn it. I apologize to anybody who thought that the posting itself was racist.
  22. "Board Meeting Report". Opensource.org. 2011-03-18. Retrieved 2011-04-01.
  23. Mac Slocum, interviewer (23 July 2010). Russ Nelson interviewed at OSCON 2010. YouTube. United States: O'Reilly Media. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12. Retrieved 1 April 2011.
  24. Nelson, Russ (1 November 2005). "Open Source and the Small Entrepreneur". In Chris DiBona; Danese Cooper; Mark Stone (eds.). Open sources 2.0: the continuing evolution. O'Reilly Media, Inc. pp. 138. ISBN 978-0-596-00802-4. Retrieved 1 April 2011.
  25. A Friend. "Wider Quaker World". Ottawa Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Retrieved 2016-10-31.
  26. Russ Nelson (2014-05-19). "Facebook". Russ Nelson's Facebook Timeline. Retrieved 2014-05-19.



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