Re: [Talk-us] Elections coming up!

[Luis Villa]

Hi, Martijn-
Are there particular skills or perspectives the current board thinks would
be useful to add to the board? In my experience, discussing those can help
bring out candidates that might not otherwise apply.

Luis (not fishing, I've got my hands full helping the legal working group :)

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 2:57 PM Martijn van Exel  wrote:

Hi all,

The current board (Alyssa Wright, Drishtie Patel, Alex Barth, Ian Dees and
me, Martijn van Exel) is about to end its term, and elections are called
for! These will happen in the second half of November.

You should consider becoming a candidate! Anyone who is a member of the US
chapter can be a board member as well. If you would like to know more about
our work as a board and what is involved in the board work, join our town
hall on November 7 at 8pm Eastern time / 7pm central time / 6pm Mountain
time / 5pm Pacific time / 2pm Hawaii time. A link and more info will follow
shortly!

If you are already sure you will be a candidate (yay!) you can add your
name to the wiki:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Elections/2016.
You should also come up with a position statement, which does not have to
be long but it should convince the membership that they should vote for you!

Only members can vote and be a candidate, if you want to become a member,
please head over to https://openstreetmap.us/join/ and sign up now. Thanks!
If you don't know if you are a member, email us at
members...@openstreetmap.us and we will find out for you.

We all hope you will participate in this election!

Martijn & the OSM US board.
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Re: [Talk-us] Elections coming up!

[Martijn van Exel]

The link to aforementioned town hall is
https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/ytl/uPZURIesvR9wyd9kdy0GecrrvdN9TWnwCrxM4sOseRg=
-
that is if you want to actively participate. If you just want to follow
along, you can go on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws8dAcBLzSY where
it will be broadcast live.

I will send a reminder shortly before the event.

Martijn

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 3:55 PM Martijn van Exel  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The current board (Alyssa Wright, Drishtie Patel, Alex Barth, Ian Dees and
> me, Martijn van Exel) is about to end its term, and elections are called
> for! These will happen in the second half of November.
>
> You should consider becoming a candidate! Anyone who is a member of the US
> chapter can be a board member as well. If you would like to know more about
> our work as a board and what is involved in the board work, join our town
> hall on November 7 at 8pm Eastern time / 7pm central time / 6pm Mountain
> time / 5pm Pacific time / 2pm Hawaii time. A link and more info will follow
> shortly!
>
> If you are already sure you will be a candidate (yay!) you can add your
> name to the wiki:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Elections/2016.
> You should also come up with a position statement, which does not have to
> be long but it should convince the membership that they should vote for you!
>
> Only members can vote and be a candidate, if you want to become a member,
> please head over to https://openstreetmap.us/join/ and sign up now.
> Thanks! If you don't know if you are a member, email us at
> members...@openstreetmap.us and we will find out for you.
>
> We all hope you will participate in this election!
>
> Martijn & the OSM US board.
>
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[Talk-us] Elections coming up!

[Martijn van Exel]

Hi all,

The current board (Alyssa Wright, Drishtie Patel, Alex Barth, Ian Dees and
me, Martijn van Exel) is about to end its term, and elections are called
for! These will happen in the second half of November.

You should consider becoming a candidate! Anyone who is a member of the US
chapter can be a board member as well. If you would like to know more about
our work as a board and what is involved in the board work, join our town
hall on November 7 at 8pm Eastern time / 7pm central time / 6pm Mountain
time / 5pm Pacific time / 2pm Hawaii time. A link and more info will follow
shortly!

If you are already sure you will be a candidate (yay!) you can add your
name to the wiki:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Elections/2016.
You should also come up with a position statement, which does not have to
be long but it should convince the membership that they should vote for you!

Only members can vote and be a candidate, if you want to become a member,
please head over to https://openstreetmap.us/join/ and sign up now. Thanks!
If you don't know if you are a member, email us at
members...@openstreetmap.us and we will find out for you.

We all hope you will participate in this election!

Martijn & the OSM US board.
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[Talk-us] Elections update

[Martijn van Exel]

Hi all,

We have an unprecedented (I think?) 12 candidates for the next US Chapter
board! Isn't that fantastic? If you haven't yet, please take some time to
check out everyone's statements, and feel free to get in touch with
individual candidates with specific questions and concerns. There's also
till the end of today to add your name to the ballot!

Here is the page with all the candidates one more time:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Elections/2014

This page also has the procedure that we will follow for the elections.
Some highlights (but please read the details on the wiki!):
* All positions are up for grabs
* Nominations close tonight
* Voting starts this Saturday and will go on for a week.
* You need to be a fully paid up member to be able to vote. (Another
reminder email to those with expired memberships will go out shortly)
* All members will get an email with a link to a voting form.
* You can vote for up to 5 people

The elections will have two independent monitors, Michael Collinson and
Toby Murray. They will oversee that the elections are conducted in a fair
manner and will be responsible for tallying up the votes and announcing the
results. So you will hear from either or both of them in the context of
these elections as well, at least on this mailing list.

And here's the blog post with the relevant links to renew your US Chapter
membership (or sign up if you aren't yet):
http://openstreetmap.us/2014/08/elections-2014/

Looking forward to the elections!
-- 
Martijn van Exel
President, US Chapter
OpenStreetMap
http://openstreetmap.us/
http://osm.org/
skype: mvexel
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[Talk-us] Elections

[Martijn van Exel]

Hi all,

You may have been following the news around SOTM Tokyo which has just
wrapped up last night. Always a significant event at SOTM is the
Annual General Meeting of the OSM Foundation, and the (re-)election of
board members.

I don't think there's an official count yet, but I understand that
Simon Poole and Frederik Ramm were elected to the board, and Henk Hoff
was re-elected for another term. I am sure an official announcement
will follow on the OSMF blog.

Which brings me to our local Chapter board elections, which will be
held as part of the Chapter AGM at our 'local' conference - the SOTM
US in Portland, on October 14 (exact date still tentative). Exact
details will follow soon, but I want to point out a few things that
you may want to think about as the elections draw near:

1) Only paid-up members of the US chapter can be nominated for a seat
on the board, and only paid-up members of the chapter can vote in the
elections for the chapter board. So consider joining now if you want
to make a difference! Note that you will also get a significant
discount on the registration fee for SOTM PDX if you join now --
http://bit.ly/join-osmus
2) If you're considering a board seat and you want to get an idea of
what it entails, browse our meeting minutes [1], listen in on the next
meeting (this Thursday at 5PM Pacific, details see the chapter wiki)
or talk directly to one of the board members. I plan to post an
informal report on my perspectives on a year of serving on the Chapter
board on my blog sometime soon - I will let you know if and when that
happens.

[2] 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Minutes

-- 
martijn van exel
http://oegeo.wordpress.com

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