Editing Russ Nelson (section)

==Personal==
Nelson is the son of Russell Edward Nelson and Gladys Jacobsen Nelson.<ref>{{cite book|last=Nelson | first = Russ | chapter = Open Source and the Small Entrepreneur | 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|access-date=1 April 2011|date=1 November 2005|publisher=O'Reilly Media, Inc.|isbn=978-0-596-00802-4|pages=[https://archive.org/details/opensources2.000diborich/page/n179 138]}}</ref> Formerly a [[Quaker]],<ref name="concept">{{cite web | url = http://ottawa.quaker.ca/create-quaker-links-0 | title = Wider Quaker World | publisher = Ottawa Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) | access-date = 2016-10-31|author=A Friend}}</ref> for political reasons he no longer identifies as one, as of 2014.<ref name="disavow">{{cite web | url = https://www.facebook.com/russnelson/posts/10152052295356965 | title = Facebook | publisher = Russ Nelson's Facebook Timeline | access-date = 2014-05-19|author=Russ Nelson|date=2014-05-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331104822/https://www.facebook.com/russnelson/posts/10152052295356965|archive-date=31 March 2019}}</ref> Nelson is a [[pacifist]], and a member of the [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian Party]] of the United States.<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>

Nelson created the first Quaker website in the world, [https://quaker.org/ quaker.org], in early 1995.<ref name="concept" /> He transferred the website to [[Friends Journal|Friends Publishing Corporation]], a Quaker nonprofit, in March 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://quaker.org/|title=quaker.org {{!}} The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324183756/http://quaker.org/ |archive-date=2018-03-24 }}</ref>