I am back in DC now from a great State of the Map Tokyo. Congratulations to Frederik, Henk and Simon to their election to the board. I am looking forward to working with each one of you.
A big thank you to the 62 individuals who have given me their support [1]. Even if my bid didn't make it, I am glad I stood for election. Based on my manifesto built on bringing in a new comer's perspective [2] I had many great conversations which will be very helpful moving this agenda forward. I am planning to work on improving the OSM "onramp" outside of the board, here's one concrete step you could get involved with: https://github.com/hotosm/learnosm/issues/1 Alex [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM12/Election_to_Board [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Lxbarth/2012_OSMF_Board_Elections_Manifesto PS: Turnout wasn't exactly exhilerating. About 160 voters? Dermot has the exact number. We should have more participation, the board matters. Signing up takes a minute and is a simple way to support a great project: http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Join Don't make not having the 15 pound stop you - apply for a waiver, perfectly legit: http://blog.osmfoundation.org/contact/ Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
