Foundation/AGM2024/Election to Board/Answers and manifestos
Below are links to the manifestos and the answers of the 2024 OSMF board election candidates to the official questions, set by our election facilitator, Brian Sperlongano. The official questions are based on questions by the community. It was up to the candidates to answer all the official questions or just a few of them. Our suggestion was to answer all of them. The official answers and questions thereof should be what voters use to judge. Suggested community discussion period: 2024-09-27 to 2024-10-12 16:00 UTC, when voting will open.
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Board candidates
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Result | Name | Nationality | Country of residence | OSM Foundation member since | OSMuser links |
Elected | Craig Allan | South Africa | Kenya/South Africa/USA | 2016-12-19 (confirmed) | CRaIgalLAn (cRaIgalLAn on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) |
Brazil Singh | Bangladeshi | Bangladesh | 2024-04-14 (confirmed) | Brazilsingh (Brazil Singh on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | |
Courtney Cook Williamson | United States | United States | 2023-07-22 (confirmed) | CourtneyCW (courtiney on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | |
Elected | Maurizio Napolitano | Italy | Italy | 2011-2017, 2017-2019, 2024-04-21 (confirmed) | napo (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) |
Can Ünen | Turkey | Turkey | 2020-04-21 (confirmed) | Unen (unen on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | |
Michael Montani | Italian and Romanian | Italy | 2020-07-06 (confirmed) | Michael Montani (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | |
Andrés Gómez Casanova | Colombian - French | Colombia | 2017-2019, 2020-09-22 (confirmed) | AngocA (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | |
Elected | Laura Mugeha | Kenyan | Kenya | 2019-11-19 (confirmed) | Laura Mugeha (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) |
Elected | Héctor Ochoa Ortiz | Spanish | Italy | 2020-09-01 (confirmed) | Robot8A (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) |
Arun Ganesh | Indian | India | 2015-09-18 (confirmed) | PlaneMad (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | |
Official set of questions -- Community questions for the candidates, upon which the official set of questions was based | |||||
Detailed election results |
Manifestos
All board candidates' manifestos
Answers by question
The ordering of candidates' names on answers' pages follows the order of candidate self-nominations. Receipt of answers and manifestos: all before the deadline. Some common acronyms are here.
Q02 Conflict of Interest Management
Q03 Transparency and Accountability
Q04 Strategic Vision and Sustainability
Q05 Decision-Making and Collaboration
Q06 Fundraising and Resource Development
Q07 Handling Legal and Political Challenges
Q09 Your Community Contributions
Q10 Promoting Community and Attracting Volunteers
Q12 Data Quality and Protection
Q13 Perspective on Open Source
Q14 Perspective on Overture Maps
Answers by candidate
The word count for Héctor Ochoa Ortiz is only for the English text.
Community provided information
Craig Allan | Brazil Singh | Courtney Cook Williamson | Maurizio Napolitano | Can Ünen | Michael Montani | Andrés Gómez Casanova | Laura Mugeha | Héctor Ochoa Ortiz | Arun Ganesh | |||||||||||
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Username wiki | CRaIgalLAn | Brazilsingh | CourtneyCW | napo | Unen | Michael Montani | AngocA | Laura Mugeha | Robot8A | PlaneMad | ||||||||||
Username osm (since) | cRaIgalLAn (2010) | Brazil Singh (2022) | courtiney (2021) | napo (2007) | unen (2012) | Michael Montani (2016) | AngocA (2009) | Laura Mugeha (2016) | Robot8A (2011) | PlaneMad (2005) | ||||||||||
National./Resid. | ZA | ZA/US | BD | BD | US | US | IT | IT | TR | TR | IT/RO | IT | CO/FR | CO | KE | KE | ES | IT | IN | IN |
OSMF member since | 2016-12-19 | 2024-04-14 | 2023-07-22 | 2011-2017,2017-2019, 2024-04-21 |
2020-04-21 | 2020-07-06 | 2017-2019, 2020-09-22 | 2019-11-19 | 2020-09-01 | 2015-09-18 | ||||||||||
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days/change sets
last year |
248 / 1,145 | 64 / 1,762 | 20 / 99 | 31 / 377 | 45 / 183 | 265 / 611 | 140 / 2,995 | 16 / 86 | 360 / 3,607 | 210 / 982 | ||||||||||
Mapping days | 1,507 | 68 | 26 | 575 | 572 | 693 | 882 | 221 | 2,935 | 3,324 | ||||||||||
Map changes | 1,872,212 | 277,954 | 385 | 98,365 | 154,040 | 524,942 | 795,766 | 235,809 | 457,743 | 4,555,391 | ||||||||||
Created | Modified | Created | Modified | Created | Modified | Created | Modified | Created | Modified | Created | Modified | Created | Modified | Created | Modified | Created | Modified | Created | Modified | |
Nodes | 1,587,316 | 123,499 | 219,287 | 2,656 | 26 | 141 | 48,036 | 25,243 | 99,500 | 22,111 | 223,368 | 82,932 | 526,571 | 138,555 | 163,391 | 30,484 | 200,302 | 130,995 | 3,037,226 | 508,998 |
Ways | 65,321 | 34,772 | 51,164 | 257 | 2 | 187 | 6,695 | 11,791 | 14,180 | 6,310 | 24,801 | 36,605 | 46,264 | 44,876 | 30,189 | 2,881 | 31,064 | 63,829 | 216,845 | 265,910 |
Relations | 965 | 479 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 65 | 66 | 214 | 279 | 49 | 534 | 2,989 | 10 | 6 | 4,887 | 8,823 | 1,300 | 7,146 |
Graphics:
Sept. 23 (top) to... ... Sept. 24 (bottom) from hdyc as of 27.9.23 |
2024 OpenStreetMap Foundation's: Board election - Voting information and instructions - Annual General Meeting
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