On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:48 PM, David Murn <da...@incanberra.com.au> wrote: > On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 15:12 -0800, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > >> OSMF is a democratically elected body. Candidates welcome. I guess 2011's >> elections will take place at the start of July as usual. >> >> (Last year's election: >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM10/Election_to_Board ) > > Out of interest, how come only 3 names are shown as 'elected' on that > page, but the foundation page lists 7 members? Is the entire board > required to stand down every year, before elections are held?
In 2010, OSMF transitioned from "chair serves two year term and others serve one-year terms", to "1/3 of board stands for election each year". Ulf, Mike and Andy chose to step down and not to run again. Six new candidates stood and three were elected to the three vacancies. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM09 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM08 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM07 FYI, and because I love ASCII-(ch)art, here is the history of the OSMF board elections. (monospace font required.) 07|08|09|10| Y |-> | Y |-> | Steve Coast Y | Y | Y | - | Andy Robinson Y | Y | N | - | George James (Etienne) Y | Y | Y | - | Michael Collinson Y | Y | Y |-> | Mikel Maron Y | - | - | - | Richard Fairhurst Y | - | - | - | Corey Burger - | Y | N | - | Nick Black - | Y | Y |-> | Henk Hoff - | N | - | - | Grant Slater - | N | Y |-> | Simone Cortesi - | N | - | - | Richard Weait - | - | Y | - | Ulf Möller - | - | N | - | Peter Miller - | - | N | - | Hurricane Coast (nee McEwen) - | - | - | Y | Emilie Laffray - | - | - | Y | Iván Sánchez Ortega - | - | - | Y | Oliver Kühn - | - | - | N | Lars Franke - | - | - | N | Thea Clay - | - | - | N | Kate Chapman [ ... ] > Interestingly, I notice the number of foundation members is dropping > over previous years, 2009 numbers were over 250, where 2010 numbers were > only 130. Has any effort been made to find out why so many former > members decided not to rejoin? Those numbers surprise me. Where did you get them? 145 valid votes were cast for the most recent election, so your "130" does not match the election results found here. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2010-August/000975.html I do remember the AGM10 report from the membership secretary mentioning the number of paid members (but I don't recall the number). Perhaps I can find that report. [ ... ] > Do the various working > groups publish their own minutes or decisions, [ ... ] Steve Bennett showed us the location of the minutes. http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Group_Minutes There is also an unofficial summary of Board and Working Group activities that is published periodically at http://blog.osmfoundation.org/ _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
