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</head><body><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><strong>The Board of the Open Source Industry, Australian wish to announce our KPI’s for the resurrection of the OSIA </strong><strong>as a credible industry body</strong><strong>.</strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">The board has agreed on a set of KPI’s that will allow an objective measure of whether OSIA should continue past the 2018 AGM.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><strong>Why?</strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">The main reason is that the current board believes that OSIA should continue as a standalone entity. However, this belief was not held by all attendees at the SGM. It was apparent form the discussions held during the SGM in January that there was no overwhelming leaning one way or the other. But what was apparent was that there were a number of people who were willing to put in the effort to attempt the resurrection of the OSIA as a credible industry body and thus at least keep OSIA running until the next AGM. (Attached is the minutes from the 25<sup style="line-height: 0;">th</sup> January 2018’s SGM.)</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">It was during the followup board meeting that a decision was made to attempt to make OSIA become a viable voice for the industry once again. To that end both myself and Josh Stewart agreed to join the OSIA board.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><strong>What we did.</strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">The first task was to determine where OSIA stood with regards to the both the industry and its members.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">To this end an audit was carried out on the infrastructure associated with OSIA. While originally it was just to determine the state of play it become apparent that there were substantial problems with not just the state of the infrastructure but the perception of OSIA from both Industry and its dwindling membership.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">The audit report was tabled at the February board meeting. From this report and the discussion it initiated, two key points were made.</p><ul><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">OSIA has dropped the ball on public policy.</p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">OSIA does not provide membership benefits.</p></li></ul><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">We also found that the bulk of our members are small to medium companies.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><strong>What we are doing.</strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><strong>Public policy</strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">We are engaging with government on two fronts, the first is the CPTPP, a rehashed TPP. You may have seen our press release regarding this matter <a href="http://osia.com.au/drupal7/news/cptpp-ticking-time-bomb">http://osia.com.au/drupal7/news/cptpp-ticking-time-bomb</a>. The point was made in that this suspension, not removal, of controversial provisions made in the origial TPP leaves a lack of certainty in the agreement These suspended provisions can be reactivated at any time.<br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">Would you sign a contract knowing it may change in the future? I think not!<br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p>The second item of of public policy involves the Open Government Partnership initiative (OGNAP) <a href="https://www.opengovpartnership.org/">https://www.opengovpartnership.org/</a> . This, while important, is of lower priority mostly due to the lack of resources. Feel free to contact us if you wish to help.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><strong>Membership Services.</strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">As I have already mentioned membership services do not exist. As a matter of fact my personal opinion is that the OSIA web site feels slow and cluttered. We also have a link to the AOSD which is a bit of of an embarrassment. At first I thought it wasn’t working at all, only to find that there is no data behind it.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">What we are planning to do is clean-up the website and provide a real set of member services. Services that will benefit member companies in their operations.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">So the plan is to provide the following services</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">These additional service will be:</p><ul><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">An AOSD equivalent that will allow anybody to search the database for specific information regarding OSIA members. The full specification has not been written yet but will involved products supported within given localities.</p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">A recruitment interface allowing for member postings of vacancies available or staff required. Further it is envisioned that this mechanism will also allow for contract opportunities and provide a mechanism for joint responses to tenders. The details again still need to be specified.</p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">There will also be a mechanism for member advertising. Those members, sponsors who wish to participate will be allowed to occupy a limited set advertising slots cycled through the front page.</p></li></ul><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">We know we do not currently have the resources available to implement all the projected services. There will be a call for support going out in the future for the remainder.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">Note: At the moment, member advertising on the front page is envisaged to consist of an suitably approved low key image. On the image will be the name of the relevant body and the status: case study, sponser, member etc. The image though is expected to be a link to either an internal OSIA page or maybe a link to you own websites “about” page. It’s use is to break up what is now essentially a text only page.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><strong>You still haven’t mentioned the KPI’s</strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">Yes that’s true!</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">For OSIA to be seen as a viable Industry body it must be recognised by both the industry, the government and its members as a credible reputable voice. After much debate the board has decided on two indicators.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">1) <strong>A significant increase in financial members</strong>. If the possible memberships sees OSIA as once again providing a credible industry voice we expect financial membership to significantly increase. As a measure of this success we expect there to be at least a total of 50 financial members of OSIA at the 2018 AGM.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">2) <strong>Appoint at least one more high calibre individual as an active director of OSIA</strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">Attempting to measure OSIA as a credible voice on public policy is problematical. How do you measure OSIA’s affect on public policy?</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">A good example is how the first CPTPP press release is working it’s way around the world. The press release has been picked up by <a href="http://bilaterals.org/"><strong>http://bilaterals.org/</strong></a><strong>, </strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">This seems to be an influential Mexican news feed. OSIA is not the only Australian body quoted. So if this site influences the Mexican government for changes or even rejection of the CPTPP, can OSIA assume </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">some degree of</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> credit?</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">So wh</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">y</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> this example. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">There is no mention in the </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">mainstream </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Australian press regarding our announcement. </span> <span style="font-weight: normal;">There is, however, mention made in minor publications and blogs either reproducing our press releases or alluding to them in their own content. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">Therefore the decision was made to measure our affect on public policy indirectly. Attracting a high calibre individual as an active board member would indeed show that the OSIA has sufficient notable influence in both the industry and government to attract said board member.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">Mark Phillips</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">Chairman OSIA</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">chairman@osia.com.au</p></body></html>