Foundation/AGM2022/Election to Board
OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) members will vote to elect a new board at the Annual General Meeting in December.
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2022 Annual General Meeting and election to OpenStreetMap Foundation board - general information
Date and time of Annual General Meeting - voting closes
The next Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the OpenStreetMap Foundation will take place online on Saturday 10 December 2022, 16:00 UTC (countdown), unless rescheduled. This is also the time when voting for the board election will close (it will open exactly one week before the General Meeting).
- List of key dates at the bottom of this page.
Seats available
This meeting will have a board election, with three four seats available (of Eugene Alvin Villar, Jean-Marc Liotier and Tobias Knerr, whose board terms are ending. Additionally, Amanda McCann decided to step down so her seat will also be available. Amanda's 2022-10-15 statement on the OSMF members' mailing list). Meanwhile the terms of Amanda McCann, Guillaume Rischard, Mikel Maron and Roland Olbricht continue. There are seven seats on the foundation board.
What the board is/is not, rules and responsibilities
- Scope of the OSMF board.
- Board rules of order.
- These were the roles and responsibilities for the OSMF board, agreed in the 2014 board face-to-face meeting.
A lot of the foundation's work is done by the volunteers of our working groups, and if you want to help the foundation, you can also look at joining those.
Personal views
- Mikel Maron - current board member (2022-10)
- Why run for the board - opinions of board members before the 2021 election (2021-08)
- Joost Schouppe - past board member (2019-10)
- Frederik Ramm - past board member (2019-11, see also previous 2017 post)
- Heather Leson - past board member (2019-11)
Additional OSM Foundation resources
Board candidatesEligibility criteria for board candidatesAny person may be elected to become a board member, provided that:
1 Normal members provide their full residential address and can vote on all issues. Their residential address may be disclosed to other members. Finding the type of your OSMF membership (normal/associate)If you want to find out the type of your membership (Normal or Associate), please check the most recent approval/renewal membership email or email the volunteers of the Membership Working Group at membership@osmfoundation.org from the email address which is associated with your OSMF membership. Associate members who want to become board candidatesYou can change your OSMF membership from associate to normal membership by emailing the volunteers of the Membership Working Group at membership@osmfoundation.org
Submission of self-nominationsSubmission of self-nominations closed on 22 October ("end of", in UTC).
The ordering of the answers and manifestos will follow the order of candidate self-nominations. List of board candidatesCandidates are ordered according to the order of their self-nominations.
*Candidate's membership makes him not eligible for this election. Announcement on osmf-talk, which is the mailing list for OSM Foundation members.
Answers to official questions and manifestoSee Foundation/AGM2022/Election to Board/Answers and manifestos for answers given by candidates. See section "Questions to Candidates" for the process. Candidates will be expected to send:
..to the facilitator and the administrative assistant before 2022-11-13 at 23:59 UTC. The official questions (based on community questions) will become available by the end of November 6th. Formatting: Please sent your answers and manifesto as .txt files with Mediawiki formatting for links, lists, etc. Manifesto (position statement): First time writing a manifesto? You can check manifestos of previous board candidates: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. Expected time needed to answer official questions: 9-11 hours (based on estimates provided by 2018 candidates). Expected time needed to write a manifesto: Unknown (2021 candidates: feel free to add your estimates). |
For OSMF membersWho has the right to voteAll normal members and associate members (including members who joined via the active contributor membership program) have the right to vote provided that:
4 90 days = Start date of your current membership is before Sunday 11 September 2022 in UTC, if the Annual General Meeting takes place on 10 December 2022, as scheduled. Active contributors: If you have an active contributor membership not based on mapping but on other contributions (had to be voted by the board) which ends between 1st of November to 11th of December 2022, make sure to renew it in time, as processing the renewal might take two weeks or more. Voting processThe voting process will be similar to previous years. Members of the OpenStreetMap Foundation who are eligible to vote will receive one or two emails from the online voting service after 2022-12-03 16:00 UTC:
The page voting information and instructions has more details. Voting on changes to the Articles of Association (AoA) or other changesResolutions proposed by the boardThis year there are no resolutions proposed by the board. Resolutions proposed by OSMF members (need support by at least 5% of members eligible to vote)There are no resolutions proposed by the membership yet. OSM Foundation members can submit resolutions and ask the membership to vote on them. Please read: Companies Act 2006: Members' power to require circulation of written resolution and see the key dates below. Questions to candidatesCommunity members could submit questions to the board candidates, upon which the official set of questions was based. This year, as in previous years, we had a structured question gathering process.
"We expect this to be the official election campaign process. We won't restrict members to continue to talk on our members' mailing list nor will we restrict candidates to continue discussions, but we don't encourage them to do so. The official answers and questions thereof should be what voters use to judge." Facilitator: Michael Collinson was active 2006-2014ish as an OSMF board member, OSMF board secretary, SotM and chair of the OSMF Licensing Working Group. More recently, he acted as an election observer for Humanitarian OSM Team and OpenStreetMap United States Inc. (OSMF Local Chapter in the US). Active mapper from 2005 till now. (Source) Community reviews/discussionsLinks to related posts written by the community, combine with your own judgement. <placeholder> |
Key dates
- Online calendar Please check the description of each event for exact dates and times.
Dates/period | Notes/activity |
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until 2022-10-11 | [Board] Arrange facilitator for candidates' questions and answers (Done. It will be Michael Collinson). |
2022-10-12 | [Community/Members] Start of submission of questions to board candidates. |
2022-10-15 | [Candidates] Start of submission of self-nominations this OSM wiki page. |
until 2022-10-19 | [Community/Members] Discussion about any special/normal resolutions. |
2022-10-22 23:59 UTC | [Candidates] Deadline for members to put themselves forward for election by adding their information on the candidates' table of this OSM wiki page. |
2022-10-26 | [Members] Deadline for getting support for any member-suggested resolutions. |
2022-10-27 | [Board] Deadline for drafting official announcement mentioning any special/normal resolutions, suggested by either the board or members. |
2022-11-01 23:59 UTC | [Community/Members] Deadline for adding questions for the candidates to talk page or to the osmf-talk mailing list. |
2022-11-03 00:01 UTC | [Board] Soft deadline for official Annual General Meeting notice, including the text of resolutions (hard: Nov 10). The official notice will be sent to all members of the OpenStreetMap Foundation via email. |
2022-11-06 23:59 UTC | [Candidates] Official set of questions to candidates (based on community questions and questions from past years) to be published by facilitator. The board candidates will also be notified via email. |
2022-11-13 23:59 UTC | [Candidates] Deadline for candidates to send answers to the official questions and their manifestos to facilitator and cc the administrative assistant. |
2022-11-18 | Publication of candidates' 1) answers to the official set of questions and 2) their manifestos by the administrative assistant. |
2022-11-19 to 2022-12-03 16:00 UTC | [Community/Members] Discussion about candidates' answers and manifestos. |
2022-12-03 16:00 UTC | [Members] Voting opens for board election and any resolutions (exactly 1 week before AGM). |
2022-12-10 16:00 UTC | [Members] Deadline for voting. Start of Annual General Meeting on IRC (join via browser). |
Activity | Dates and times | Duration |
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[Community/Members] Addition of questions by community/members to OSM wiki (of which, 9 days where the candidates' names will be known). | 2022-10-12 to 2022-11-01, 23:59 UTC | ~21 days |
[Candidates] Submission of nominations on OSM wiki. | 2022-10-15 to 2022-10-22, 23:59 UTC | ~8 days |
[Members] Get support for any member-suggested resolutions (wording already finalised) | until 2022-10-26 | |
Facilitator to complete compiling the set of official questions to candidates. | 2022-11-02 to 2022-11-06 23:59 (UTC) | ~05 days |
[Candidates] Candidates to send answers to the official questions and their manifestos to facilitator and cc the administrative assistant. | 2022-11-06 to 2022-11-13, 23:59 UTC | ~08 days |
Administrative assistant to complete compiling the candidates' answers and manifestos. | 2022-11-14 to 2022-11-18 | ~05 days |
[Community/Members] Discussion about candidates' answers and manifestos. | 2022-11-19 to 2022-12-03, 16:00 UTC | ~14 days |
[Members] Voting for board candidates and any resolutions. | 2022-12-03 16:00 UTC to 2022-12-10 16:00 UTC | 7 days |
Additional information
At https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meetings/2022
Detailed results of the election and any resolutions
Detailed results will be available on the OSMF website.
You can see results in https://www.opavote.com/results/5994558109253632 for next months and even longer by this archived page.
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