Hi all, I want to welcome all the people who will be considering becoming a voting member of HOT.
HOT is a diverse community with a shared goal: Working together to serve people through collaboration and open data. Becoming a voting member is a very public declaration of your commitment that goal. The HOT/OSM community works on the ground in many places and HOT the organization does everything it can to support and build those efforts. Becoming a voting member is another way you can increase your participation in and commitment to HOT's projects. The worldwide HOT/OSM community has accomplished amazing work over the past 5 years and I am honored to be a peer in that community and a voting member of HOT US Inc. I also wish to amplify Russ's mention of the importance of diversity to HOT. HOT is committed to making our community a safe space for people of any background. If anyone has any questions about HOT or about becoming a voting member, please just contact me whatever way is most convenient for you: blake.girar...@hotosm.org skype:jblakegirardot US: +1 734 330 8989 HOT's mumble server (search in the OSM wiki for mumble) I love to quote Heather Leson, HOT US Inc.'s President: "Lets be awesome together." I look forward to working with everyone in the HOT/OSM community in the future (how great is it to be able to say that?) Cheers, Blake ---------------------------------------------------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Russell Deffner <russell.deff...@hotosm.org> wrote: > Greetings Global Community of HOT, > > > > (my apologies, I meant to send this on Monday but was focused on our > Activations) > > > > There are never enough ways to thank you for all that you have done and > continue to do for HOT. It is my pleasure to announce that the Voting > Members of HOT have launched the nomination period for a New Member > Election. Voting Members are our ‘core team’ that handle governance such as > Bylaws, Board Member Elections, and of course - electing additional Voting > Members. > > > > The short-story of the way it works is, each existing member can nominate > one person, and if elected, that nominator mentors the nominee as they > navigate HOT/OSM and achieve their goals. Those of you who love what we are > doing and accept the long and grueling challenge of ensuring effective > governance of the organization as well as strengthening and growing it, I > welcome you to contact myself or any of the wonderful people you may have > worked with here: http://hotosm.org/voting-members - rights and > responsibilities are also defined in the Membership Code linked/attached to > that page. > > > > New Member Nominees are not required to campaign in any way, but are > encouraged to document their aspirations somewhere that will be linked to > the ballot (or otherwise work with their nominator to provide links/text for > the ballot). It is not easy to be elected as our existing membership takes > many things into account, including diversity. To be elected, a nominee must > gain written consent from ⅔ of the existing membership, in other word 57 of > the 86 current Voting Members must approve their nomination via ballot > (think of it as a petition requiring a certain number of signatures). > > > > Detailed procedures are documented here: > https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-83ZQvgXLentCAMS37gOPe1Lhmzs1UsqliohxfogJWk > > > > The nomination period ends November 6th; at which point nominees, their > nominator and/or supports will have until basically the end of November > (28th) to introduce themselves via the membership mailing list and/or > IRC/Mumble/etc. Results will be ratified at a Special Meeting of the Voting > Members, tentatively between December 12th and 20th and announced shortly > after. > > > > Any questions regarding membership or this election process, please don’t > hesitate to contact me directly. > > > > On behalf of the Voting Members, we cannot wait to meet the nominees! > > =Russ > > > > Russell Deffner > > Chairperson for the Voting Members > > Email: russell.deff...@hotosm.org > > OSM/Skype: russdeffner > > Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) > > Web | Wiki | Blog | Contact | Donate -- _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
