Josh Simmons

Josh Simmons is a community organizer, open source strategist, and civic engagement geek with a passion for building up people, partnerships, programs, and organizations around the commons. He has worked as a freelancer and startup CEO, in corporate open source, helped start an OSPO, served on boards and as a campaign manager.

Josh is a partner in Open Chapters, where he focuses on open source, organizational development, and inclusive organizing, is the author of the Public Health Pledge, Operations Lead of Petaluma Pride, and is involved in several new nonprofits around labor organizing and trust and safety on the Fediverse.

However, Josh is best known for his six-year tenure with Open Source Initiative, which he led out of cascading crises and through to a new stage of maturity as the most senior member of the board. He concluded his time with OSI as its President and then Chair in 2022.

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