[Talk-us] OSMF US Board Elections in progress

[Richard Welty]

 The board elections for OSMF US opened at the annual meeting at SOTM US
this past Sunday. All paid members should have received ballot links via 
email.
If you did not, please contact me at this email address. The election 
will end
two weeks after the first ballots were mailed out, so there's a week and 
half

left.

There are 28 paid members, 10 of which have voted at this time. If you are
not currently a paid member, you can still join and vote:

http://www.openstreetmap.us/membership/

Once you have joined and I have verified that all is in order, a link to
a ballot will be emailed to the address provided.

Regular membership is $20/year, the student rate is $15/year.

Candidates might consider posting statements on talk-us. Providing
an opportunity for candidates to say something might have been
done at SOTM US but wasn't, maybe we should have (at least 9
if not all 10 of the board candidates were in attendance.)

Richard Welty
   Secretary, OSMF US


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Re: [Talk-us] OSMF US Board Elections in progress

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Richard Welty  wrote:

> Candidates might consider posting statements on talk-us. Providing
> an opportunity for candidates to say something might have been
> done at SOTM US but wasn't, maybe we should have (at least 9
> if not all 10 of the board candidates were in attendance.)

That's a good idea.

My name is Serge Wroclawski. I'm a candidate running for the board of OSM US.

My involvement in OpenStreetMap started about two years ago with a
talk by Richard Weait. I don't have a formal background in GIS but I
immediately saw the benefits to having geographic information that was
free in the same way we have Free/Open Source software, a free
encyclopedia, and free textbooks.

In my time with OpenStreetMap, I've been fairly active. Most recently,
I currently serve on the temporary board of OpenStreetMap United
States. I also served on the conference planning committee for SOTM
US. I'm also one of the founders of MappingDC, a local mapping group
that meets in the Washington, DC region.

I've been involved in the Free Software/Open Source movement since
1997, when I installed Linux on my PC in my dorm room. At that time I
had no formal CS training either, so there are a lot of parallels.
With OpenStreetMap, I've learned a lot in the short time I've been
with OSM, I've been developing software, and also writing guides to
help people use OSM more effectively, including an alternative
database/XAPI server, and my current project, to help make imports and
bots a little more manageable.

I have great aspirations for OSM US and I hope that I'm given the
privilege of being able to take part in a leadership position.

- Serge

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