Hello, Elections for the OSMF are coming up with nominations closing on the 25th August. I'm standing for election this year as a board member and I think its important for OSMF's representatives to state their positions and let the OSMF members know who and what they are electing to help look after the Foundation:
Here's a summary of what I would aim to achieve over a year as an OSMF board member: * State Of The Map organisation. I aim to help the conference grow by supporting the community in choosing a venue, organising logistics, helping with call for papers, helping with website set up and anything else needed by the hosts, whoever they may be. I've helped out with the organisation of the last two conferences, both of which have been highlights of my time working with OSM. I'd like to the last two years of experiences to make sure that SOTM09 is even better than the last two years. * Accountability and communitcation for OSMF. Its understandable that in a busy, volunteer based organisation like the Foundation, communication of work and aims becomes secondary to actually achieving the aims. I'd like to help the Foundation communicate more effectively with its membership. Some ideas I have include regular email updates and blog posts that summarise the different projects that the Foundation are working on. * Promoting OSM. One of the important roles of the Foundation is representing OSM at conferences, shows and developer meetups around the world and most importantly helping to support other OSMers in their promotion of the project. Attracting and looking after new mappers is going to be really important in helping us create a free map of the world. There are more details on my blog (http://www.blacksworld.net/blog/2008/08/09/openstreetmap-foundation-elections/) and on my wiki page (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User:Nickb). If you have any questions, please add to this thread or drop me an email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or on skype: nickb_sk. Finally, thanks to TomH and Dutch for proposing me. -- Nick Black -------------------------------- http://www.blacksworld.net _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk