Foundation/AGM11/Election to Board

This AGM 2011 board elections are now over. Each member of the Foundation had a single vote for each available board position and could vote in person at the Annual General Meeting or by an email proxy as described below.

Vacancies

Four seats were available on the board for the 2011 board election. These were the seats previously held by Emilie Laffray, who stepped down in May; and Simone Cortesi, Iván Sánchez Ortega, each of whom vacated their seats for this election. Mikel Maron ran for re-election to the seat he already held on the board. Membership of the board is for a term of up to three years as stated in the Articles of Association

Candidates and results

The following members of the OpenStreetMap Foundation stood for election to the board of the Foundation.

Name	Nomination seconded	Nationality	Residence	Result (Order)	Manifesto (Position statement)	Notes
Matt Amos (u) (w)	Tom Hughes Dave Stubbs	British	England	Elected (2) 81 votes	manifesto (en, de, fr)	Member of EWG, OWG, DWG. Former LWG member. Developer of the API and OWL.
Kate Chapman (u) (w)		US American	United States	(5) 47 votes	manifesto	OSM US Founder HOT Board Member OSM Member since 2009 Member of the SWG
Richard Fairhurst (u) (w)	Tom Hughes Andy Robinson (Blackadder) Emilie Laffray	British	England	Elected (1) 98 votes	manifesto (en, fr)	Co-author and maintainer, Potlatch Mapper, developer and OSM activist since 2004 Former OSMF board member
Mikel Maron (u) (w)	Oliver Kühn Kate Chapman	American	Varies	Elected (3) 74 votes	previous manifesto	(running for re-election) HOT president co-director: Ground Truth Initiative
Dermot McNally (u) (w)	Bartosz Fabianowski Emilie Laffray	Irish	Ireland	Elected (4) 68 votes	manifesto (en, de, fr)	Mapper since 2007 Based in Ireland OSM Evangelist Co-creator of True Offset Process Author of mapping epic The Girona Tales and the hit songs I've got a little list and Maps! Maps! Maps!
Derick Rethans (u) (w)	Richard Fairhurst Tom Hughes Emilie Laffray	Dutch	England	(7) 42 votes	manifesto	Mapping since 2008 Author, speaker and advocate PHP core contributor
Niccolo Rigacci (u) (w)	EdoM Alessandro Fanna	Italian	Italy	(8) 41 votes	manifesto (en, it)	Mapper since 2005, active in Free Software, OpenStreetMap and GFOSS.it (Geographic Free and Open Source Software) association.
Eugene Usvitsky (u) (w)	Henk Hoff Oliver Kühn	Russian	Russia/USA West Coast	(6) 44 votes	manifesto	OpenStreetMap.ru owner and maintainer OpenStreetMap Member since February 2008 OSMF Member since 2009 Member: Strategic Working Group and its Articles of Association sub-group
Serge Wroclawski (u) (w)	Grant Slater Emilie Laffray	American/French	United States	(9) 27 votes	manifesto	OSM US Founder OSM Member since 2008 Member of the TWG,EWG Creator of several OSM Resources, including DC Sidewalks and OSM Video Series

Key: (u) = primary OSM user profile, (w) = primary OSM wiki user page

Questions to Candidates

please use Talk:Foundation/AGM11/Election to Board

Proxy Votes

Proxy voting was closed, as of 08 September 2011 @ 1700 UTC. If you were a member of the OpenStreetMap Foundation, but were unable to attend the AGM you could still vote by proxy. To do this you had to send a message to the following email addresses containing details of your votes:

To: secretary@example.com (Henk Hoff - OSMF secretary)
cc: osmfvote2011@example.com (Derrick Nehrenberg - Independent scrutineer)
cc: vote2011@example.com (Richard Weait - Independent scrutineer)
Subject: OSMF Board Vote 2011 

Proxy voting by email was open from September 1st to September 8th. Votes after that time could only be submitted in person at the AGM.

Key election dates

Thursday, 18 August 2011

• election announced
• candidate nominations and declarations open

Wednesday, 31 August 2011

• candidate nominations and declarations close at 1700 UTC

Thursday, 01 September 2011

• proxy votes by email open at 0900 UTC

Thursday, 08 September 2011

• proxy votes by email close 1700 UTC

Sunday, 11 September 2011

• AGM at SotM - Denver
• in-person vote