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{{Short description|American computer programmer}}
{{other people||Russell Nelson (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|image = File:Russ Nelson.jpg
|caption = Russ Nelson in 2005
|occupation = [[Software developer]]
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|3|21|mf=y}}<ref>{{cite web | url = http://russnelson.com/ | title = Russ Nelson's Home Page | access-date = 2011-04-01 | last = Nelson | first = Russ | work = russnelson.com}}</ref>
|office = Board of Directors, [[Open Source Initiative]]
|term_start = February 1998<ref>{{cite web | url = https://opensource.org/history | title = History of the OSI | date = 19 September 2006 | access-date = 2022-04-09 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070912050859/https://opensource.org/history | archive-date = 2007-09-12}}</ref>
|term_end = April 6, 2011<ref name="boardleave">{{cite web | url = https://opensource.org/minutes20110406 | title = OSI Board Meeting Minutes, Wednesday, April 6, 2011 | date = 10 June 2011 | access-date = 2022-04-09 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111212092505/https://opensource.org/minutes20110406 | archive-date = 2011-12-12}}</ref>
|successor = [[Jim Jagielski]]<ref name="boardleave"/>
|office2 = President, [[Open Source Initiative]]
|predecessor2 = [[Eric S. Raymond]]<ref name="lamonica"/>
|successor2 = [[Michael Tiemann]]<ref name="racism"/>
|term_start2 = February 1, 2005<ref name="appointedpresident">{{cite web | url = https://lwn.net/Articles/121685/ | title = Interview: OSI's new president | last = Corbet | first = Jon | access-date = 2022-04-08 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080908030837/https://lwn.net/Articles/121685/ | archive-date = 2008-09-08}}</ref>
|term_end2 = February 23, 2005<ref name="racism"/><ref name="resignedpresident">{{cite web |url = https://www.eweek.com/servers/new-osi-president-steps-down/ | title = New OSI President Steps Down | last = Vaughan-Nichols | first = Stephen | date = 4 March 2005 | access-date = 2022-04-09 | quote = Russ Nelson, the newly elected president of the Open Source Initiative, resigned his office retroactively to Feb. 23}}</ref>
|known_for = Board member and former president of [[Open Source Initiative]]<ref name="osi"/>
|website = http://russnelson.com/
|party = [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian Party]]<ref name="OS2">{{cite book| chapter = List of Contributors | editor=Chris DiBona | editor-link=Chris DiBona |editor2=Danese Cooper |editor2-link=Danese Cooper |editor3=Mark Stone|title=Open sources 2.0: the continuing evolution|url=https://archive.org/details/opensources2.000diborich| quote = Libertarian. |access-date=1 April 2011|date=1 November 2005|publisher=O'Reilly Media, Inc.|isbn=978-0-596-00802-4|pages=xix}}</ref>
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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.<ref>[http://opensource.org/pressreleases/expansion.php OPEN SOURCE INITIATIVE (OSI) ANNOUNCES EXPANDED PROGRAMS, COUNSEL, AND BOARD]</ref>