Russ Nelson Explained

Occupation:Software developer
Birth Date:March 21, 1958[1]
Office:Board of Directors, Open Source Initiative
Term Start:February 1998[2]
Term End:April 6, 2011[3]
Successor:Jim Jagielski
Office2:President, Open Source Initiative
Predecessor2:Eric S. Raymond
Successor2:Michael Tiemann
Term Start2:February 1, 2005[4]
Term End2:February 23, 2005[5]
Known For:Board member and former president of Open Source Initiative
Website:http://russnelson.com/
Party:Libertarian Party[6]

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.[7]

Career

In 1983, Nelson and Patrick Naughton wrote Painter's Apprentice, a MacPaint clone.[8] Nelson was the author of Freemacs (a variant of Emacs used by FreeDOS).[9]

While attending university, Nelson began developing the collection of drivers later commercially released as the "Crynwr Collection".[10] In 1991, Nelson founded Crynwr Software, a company located in Potsdam, New York,[11] supporting deployment of large-scale e-mail systems, development of packet drivers, Linux kernel drivers,[12] and reverse engineering of embedded systems.[13]

In July 2010, Nelson was working on water quality sensors.[14]

Open Source Initiative

In 1998, Nelson became one of the six first members of the board of directors of the Open Source Initiative.[15] [16]

On February 1, 2005, he was named as the new president of the Open Source Initiative, replacing Eric S. Raymond.[17] On February 7, Nelson published a post to his personal blog titled "Blacks are lazy", which generated controversy.[18] [19] [20] Nelson apologized to those who perceived the post (which he withdrew because it "was not well written") as racist.[21] Nelson resigned as president in early March (the resignation was backdated to February 23), and stated he did not believe himself to be politically savvy enough for the role of president.[20] [22]

Nelson remained on the board of directors of the Open Source Initiative for another six years.[23]

Personal

Nelson is the son of Russell Edward Nelson and Gladys Jacobsen Nelson.[24] Formerly a Quaker,[25] for political reasons he no longer identifies as one, as of 2014.[26] Nelson is a pacifist, and a member of the Libertarian Party of the United States.[27]

Nelson created the first Quaker website in the world, quaker.org, in early 1995. He transferred the website to Friends Publishing Corporation, a Quaker nonprofit, in March 2018.[28]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Russ Nelson's Home Page . 2011-04-01 . Nelson . Russ . russnelson.com.
  2. Web site: History of the OSI . 19 September 2006 . 2022-04-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070912050859/https://opensource.org/history . 2007-09-12.
  3. Web site: OSI Board Meeting Minutes, Wednesday, April 6, 2011 . 10 June 2011 . 2022-04-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111212092505/https://opensource.org/minutes20110406 . 2011-12-12.
  4. Web site: Interview: OSI's new president . Corbet . Jon . 2022-04-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080908030837/https://lwn.net/Articles/121685/ . 2008-09-08.
  5. Web site: New OSI President Steps Down . Vaughan-Nichols . Stephen . 4 March 2005 . 2022-04-09 . Russ Nelson, the newly elected president of the Open Source Initiative, resigned his office retroactively to Feb. 23.
  6. Book: List of Contributors . Chris DiBona . Chris DiBona . Danese Cooper . Danese Cooper . Mark Stone. Open sources 2.0: the continuing evolution. Libertarian. . 1 April 2011. 1 November 2005. O'Reilly Media, Inc.. 978-0-596-00802-4. xix.
  7. http://opensource.org/pressreleases/expansion.php OPEN SOURCE INITIATIVE (OSI) ANNOUNCES EXPANDED PROGRAMS, COUNSEL, AND BOARD
  8. Book: Patrick Naughton . Patrick Naughton . Java Handbook . Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited . 1997 . B007ITC4G4 .
  9. Web site: EMACS . FreeDOS - Software List . freedos.org . https://web.archive.org/web/20070915223837/http://www.freedos.org/cgi-bin/lsm.cgi?mode=lsm&lsm=edit%2Femacs.lsm . 2007-09-15 . dead .
  10. Bill Machrone and Michael J. Miller . 8th Annual Awards for Technical Excellence . Ziff-Davis Publishing Company . New York, NY . 1991-12-31 . . 10 . 22 . 136 .
  11. Open Source Software Model . Russ . Nelson . Linux Journal . August 1998 . 2011-04-01 . 52.
  12. Book: 2016-10-31 . 1995-11-18 . Linux Documentation Project . Paul Gortmaker . Linux Ethernet-Howto. Book: CREDITS . Linux Foundation . Linus Torvalds . 2016-10-31 . 1998-09-16.
  13. Web site: Mindstorms Not Just a Kid's Toy . Paul Wallich . 2001-09-03 . 2016-10-31 . IEEE. Web site: The Connectix Quickcam Technical FAQ. Patrick Reynolds . 2016-10-31 . 1997-12-04 .
  14. Mac Slocum, interviewer . 23 July 2010 . Russ Nelson interviewed at OSCON 2010. YouTube. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/kHEk7pRXTWU. 2021-12-12 . live. O'Reilly Media. United States . 1 April 2011.
  15. Web site: History of the OSI . 2008-08-22 . Tiemann . Michael . Michael Tiemann . 2006-09-19 . Opensource.org.
  16. Web site: A Look Back at 10 Years of OSI . Federico . Biancuzzi . 2008-02-12 . 2011-04-01 . onlamp.com.
  17. Web site: Open-source leader steps aside at industry group . LaMonica . Martin . 2005-02-01 . CNET News. 2009-02-03 .
  18. Web site: Blacks are lazy . Nelson . Russ . 2005-02-07 . Russ Nelson's personal blog . 2022-04-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20050308034834/http://blog.russnelson.com/economics/.removed/blacks-are-lazy.html . 2005-03-08 . Black people are lazy in that they work less hard than whites.
  19. News: Stuart . Finlayson . Open source chief makes swift exit after "racist" gaffe . 14 February 2019 . Information & Data Manager (IDM).
  20. News: Racism row forces open source head out . Sam . Varghese . 2005-03-09 . 2008-07-11 . .
  21. Web site: Russ Nelson : economics/blacks-are-lazy.html . blog.russnelson.com . 2005-03-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20050308204237/http://blog.russnelson.com:80/economics/blacks-are-lazy.html . 2005-03-08 . dead . 2023-08-10 . It was not well written and I have withdrawn it. I apologize to anybody who thought that the posting itself was racist..
  22. Web site: Russ Nelson's blog : /opensource/osi-presidency-resignation.html . Russ Nelson's blog . 2005-03-02 . 2023-08-10.
  23. Web site: Board Meeting Report . 2011-03-18 . 2011-04-01 . Opensource.org.
  24. Book: Nelson, Russ . Open Source and the Small Entrepreneur . Chris DiBona . Chris DiBona . Danese Cooper . Danese Cooper . Mark Stone. Open sources 2.0: the continuing evolution. 1 April 2011. 1 November 2005. O'Reilly Media, Inc.. 978-0-596-00802-4. 138.
  25. Web site: Wider Quaker World . Ottawa Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) . 2016-10-31. A Friend.
  26. Web site: Facebook . Russ Nelson's Facebook Timeline . 2014-05-19. Russ Nelson. 2014-05-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20190331104822/https://www.facebook.com/russnelson/posts/10152052295356965. 31 March 2019.
  27. Book: List of Contributors . Chris DiBona . Chris DiBona . Danese Cooper . Danese Cooper . Mark Stone. Open sources 2.0: the continuing evolution. Libertarian. . 1 April 2011. 1 November 2005. O'Reilly Media, Inc.. 978-0-596-00802-4. xix.
  28. Web site: quaker.org The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). https://web.archive.org/web/20180324183756/http://quaker.org/ . 2018-03-24 .

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