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Board Election 2015 Results

Theses are the final results from the 2015 elections for the open seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were five seats open and they have been filled by (alphabetical order):
* Anita Graser
* Helena Mitasova
* Jody Garnett
* Sanghee Shin
* Venkatesh Raghavan
Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections and exposing themselves. Overall voting participation was 87% (246 out of 280) and there were no tie scores to arbitrate. Thank you to all who voted! 
The complete resulting Board is:
* Anita Graser
* Helena Mitasova
* Jeff McKenna (President) 
* Jody Garnett
* Massimiliano Cannata
* Michael Smith
* Sanghee Shin
* Vasile Craciunescu
* Venkatesh Raghavan
With the election results [# published] the new Board of Directors becomes effective as of now.
Congratulations and please welcome the new OSGeo directors!
 
We wish to thank the outgoing directors for their continued support of OSGeo and for helping to run a fantastic organizations with a great membership and lots of energy. We thank all candidates who stood in this election and all OSGeo Charter Members for their contribution and votes.
Category:Elections
Category:Election 2015
Category:Board
Board Election 2016 Results

Theses are the final results from the 2016 elections for the open seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. The formal announce was made on the discuss mailing list on this thread. There were four seats open and they have been filled by (alphabetical order):
* Angelos Tzotsos
* Maria Antonia Brovelli
* Michael Smith
* Vasile Craciunescu
Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections and exposing themselves. Overall voting participation was 78.8% (246 out of 312) and there were no tie scores to arbitrate. Thank you to all who voted! 
The complete resulting Board is:
* Angelos Tzotsos
* Anita Graser
* Helena Mitasova
* Jody Garnett
* Maria Antonia Brovelli
* Michael Smith
* Sanghee Shin
* Vasile Craciunescu
* Venkatesh Raghavan
With the election results the new Board of Directors becomes effective as of now.
Congratulations and please welcome the new OSGeo directors!
 
We wish to thank the outgoing directors for their continued support of OSGeo and for helping to run a fantastic organizations with a great membership and lots of energy. We thank all candidates who stood in this election and all OSGeo Charter Members for their contribution and votes.
=== Detailed results ===
* Membership: 312
* Valid votes: 246
* Not finished votes: 6
* Not voted: 60
Name 	Count
Angelos Tzotsos 	110
Dirk Frigne 	93
Jeffrey Johnson 	92
Maria Antonia Brovelli	164
Mark Vloemans 	45
María Arias de Reyna 	92
Massimiliano Cannata 	79
Michael Smith 	117
Nicolas Bozon 	70
Vasile Craciunescu 	122
Category:Elections
Category:Election 2016
Category:Board
Board Election 2017 Results

Theses are the final results from the 2017 elections for the open seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. The formal announce was made on the discuss mailing list on this thread. There were five seats open and they have been filled by (alphabetical order):
* María Arias de Reyna
* Astrid Emde
* Jody Garnett
* Jeff McKenna
* Helena Mitasova
Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections and exposing themselves. Overall voting participation was 79% (308 out of 390) and there were no tie scores to arbitrate. One candidate withdraw during the voting period. A final position is expected from the candidate ASAP. Thank you to all who voted! 
The complete resulting Board (including the withdraw candidate) is:
* Vasile Craciunescu
* Maria Antonia Brovelli
* Michael Smith
* Angelos Tzotsos
* María Arias de Reyna
* Astrid Emde
* Jody Garnett
* Jeff McKenna
* Helena Mitasova
Congratulations and please welcome the new OSGeo directors!
 
We wish to thank the outgoing directors for their continued support of OSGeo and for helping to run a fantastic organizations with a great membership and lots of energy. We thank all candidates who stood in this election and all OSGeo Charter Members for their contribution and votes.
=== Detailed results ===
* Membership: 390
* Valid votes: 308
* Not finished votes: 5
* Not voted: 77
Unmodified export of the vote log from LimeSurvey can be downloaded from http://www.geo-spatial.org/file_download/29668/osgeo_board_elections.csv. A chart with the vote log data was created by Helmut Kudrnovsky.
Name 	Count
María Arias de Reyna	179
Astrid Emde 	196
Dirk Frigne 	96
Jody Garnett 	175
Jeff McKenna 	176
Helena Mitasova 	190
Venkatesh Raghavan 	140
Sanghee Shin 	125
Vicky Vergara 	132
Category:Elections
Category:Election 2017
Category:Board
Board Election 2018 Results

Theses are the final results from the 2018 elections for the open seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. The formal announce was made on the discuss mailing list on this thread. There were four seats open and they have been filled by (alphabetical order):
* Angelos Tzotsos
* Michael Smith
* Tom Kralidis
* Victoria Rautenbach
Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections and exposing themselves. Overall voting participation was 80% (341 out of 427) and there were no tie scores to arbitrate. Thank you to all who voted! 
The complete resulting Board is:
* María Arias de Reyna
* Astrid Emde
* Jody Garnett
* Jeff McKenna
* Helena Mitasova
* Angelos Tzotsos
* Michael Smith
* Tom Kralidis
* Victoria Rautenbach
Congratulations and please welcome the new OSGeo directors!
 
We wish to thank the outgoing directors for their continued support of OSGeo and for helping to run a fantastic organizations with a great membership and lots of energy. We thank all candidates who stood in this election and all OSGeo Charter Members for their contribution and votes.
=== Detailed results ===
* Membership: 427
* Valid votes: 341
Name 	Count
Angelos Tzotsos 	206
Victoria Rautenbach	174
Tom Kralidis 	163
Michael Smith 	155
Steven Feldman 	138
Malena Libman 	130
Nicolas Bozon 	111
Category:Elections
Category:Election 2018
Category:Board
Board Election 2020 Results

=== 2020 Board of directors Election ===
==== Participation ====
Charter members 	Invited	Voted	% Vote
Number of members	482 	306 	63%
==== Results ====
Candidate 	Number of votes	% Vote	Elected
Angelos Tzotsos	240 	78% 	Yes
Tom Kralidis 	214 	70% 	Yes
Michele Tobias 	189 	62% 	Yes
Michael Smith 	171 	56% 	Yes
Zoltán Siki 	137 	45% 	No
Category:Elections 
Category:Election 2020
Board Election 2021 Results

=== 2021 Board of directors Election ===
==== Participation ====
Charter members 	Invited	Voted	% Vote
Number of members	497 	321 	64.58%
==== Results ====
Candidate 	Number of votes	% Vote	Elected
Adam Steer 	180 	56.07%	yes
Marco Bernasocchi 	199 	61.99%	yes
Codrina Maria Ilie	230 	71.65%	yes
Rajat Shinde 	174 	54.21%	yes
Vicky Vergara 	210 	65.42%	yes
Tina Cormier 	173 	53.89%	no
Category:Elections 
Category:Election 2021
Board Election 2022 Results

=== 2021 Board of directors Election ===
==== Participation ====
Charter members 	Invited	Voted	% Vote
Number of members	525 	290 	55.23%
==== Results ====
Candidate 	Number of votes	% Vote	Elected
Angelos Tzotsos	248 	85.52%	yes
Ariel Anthieni 	224 	77.24%	yes
Tom Kralidis 	247 	85.17%	yes
Michael Smith 	218 	75.17%	yes
Category:Elections 
Category:Election 2022
Board Election 2023 Results

=== 2023 Board of directors Election ===
==== Participation ====
Charter members 	Invited	Voted	% Vote
Number of members	549 	338 	61.38%
==== Results ====
Candidate 	Number of votes	% Vote	Elected
Codrina Maria Ilie	223 	65.98%	reelected
Vicky Vergara 	217 	64.20%	reelected
Marco Bernasocchi 	212 	62.72%	reelected
Jeroen Ticheler 	164 	48.52%	newly elected
Rajat Shinde 	143 	42.31%	reelected
Matthew Hanson 	140 	41,42%	no
Besfort Guri 	87 	25.74%	no
Adam Steer did not stand up for reelection and therefore exits the board.
Category:Elections 
Category:Election 2023
Board Election 2024 Results

=== 2024 Board of directors Election ===
==== Participation ====
Charter members 	Invited	Voted	% Vote
Number of members	568 	310 	54.57%
Responses 	number
Full responses 	285
Incomplete responses	25
Total responses 	310
==== Results ====
Candidate 	Number of votes	% Vote	Elected
Angelos Tzotsos	209 	67.42%	reelected
Tom Kralidis 	210 	67.74%	reelected
Ariel Anthieni 	143 	46.13%	no
Joana Simões 	195 	62.90%	newly elected
Michael Smith 	171 	55.16%	reelected
Category:Elections 
Category:Election 2024
Board Face to Face Meeting 2017

== Meeting ==
Face-to-face meeting 2018.
== Timing ==
One weekend in January or early February 2018. A Doodle was setup to capture participants availability
https://doodle.com/poll/wnnswgidengy77au
== Possible Location: GeoCat office in Bennekom, Netherlands ==
===== Address of GeoCat =====
Veenderweg 13, 6721 WD Bennekom, Netherlands (OSM map)
===== From AMS (Schiphol) Airport =====
* 55mins by train from Schiphol
===== Accommodation =====
* at Jeroen's house (4 single beds and two double beds)
* Reehorst hotel (nearest option)
** http://reehorst.nl/en/index.html
** 60 EUR/night
** in nearby town of Ede
** The area is not very exciting though
** There is a bus running twice an hour to Bennekom and it is five minutes walk from the train station
* Hotel de Wereld (in near university town)
** http://www.hoteldewereld.nl/html/index.php?page_id=2&language_id=2
** 125 EUR/night
** in nearby town of Wageningen, on a walking street
** If you are looking for something with more life around (bars & restaurants) Wageningen is a nice student city and it is close to Bennekom too. You can rent bikes at the train station for those that can cycle. Buses, trains and taxis are all available and affordable.
** has only 15 rooms
===== Travel Schedule =====
* add your name and travel plans
=== Agenda ===
=== Goal ===
== Meeting Minutes ==
Board Face to Face Meeting 2018

== Meeting ==
Face-to-face meeting 2018.
== Timing ==
One weekend in January or early February 2018. A Doodle was setup to capture participants availability. European board members that can arrive on Thursday evening/Friday night to try to setup an European bank account for OSGeo are encouraged to check Friday as well.
https://doodle.com/poll/wnnswgidengy77au
== Possible Location: GeoCat office in Bennekom, Netherlands ==
===== Address of GeoCat =====
Veenderweg 13, 6721 WD Bennekom, Netherlands (OSM map)
===== From AMS (Schiphol) Airport =====
* 55mins by train from Schiphol
===== Accommodation =====
* at Jeroen's house (4 single beds and two double beds)
* Reehorst hotel (nearest option)
** http://reehorst.nl/en/index.html
** 60 EUR/night
** in nearby town of Ede
** The area is not very exciting though
** There is a bus running twice an hour to Bennekom and it is five minutes walk from the train station
* Hotel de Wereld (in near university town)
** http://www.hoteldewereld.nl/html/index.php?page_id=2&language_id=2
** 125 EUR/night
** in nearby town of Wageningen, on a walking street
** If you are looking for something with more life around (bars & restaurants) Wageningen is a nice student city and it is close to Bennekom too. You can rent bikes at the train station for those that can cycle. Buses, trains and taxis are all available and affordable.
** has only 15 rooms
===== Travel Schedule =====
* add your name and travel plans
=== Agenda ===
=== Goal ===
== Meeting Minutes ==
Category:Board
Category:Board Meetings 2018
Board Meeting 2006 02 27

The second board meeting is planned for February 27th, 2006 at 8:00am PST, by phone and IRC at the same time. 
From Skype call : +99038275318640 
To use a regular phone:
 From the US: call # 1-419-753-7120(free, long distance costs apply).
 From the UK: call # 0870-119-2350(10p/minute).
Your Conference Room Number is : 5318640. 
== Agenda ==
* Appoint meeting secretary.
* Review and approve First Board Meeting minutes.
* Status report on website and activities from DanielB.
* Assign responsibility to approve/reject/forward mail arriving at 'info AT osgeo.org' to a second person (Tyler proposed as candidate).
* Status report from the Treasurer (Gary).
* Motion to form an Project Incubation Committee.
* Motion to form a Promotion and Visibility Committee.
* Motion on Proposed Board Election Procedure to elect four additional directors (Chris).
* Review Contributor Agreement (Rich).
* Proposed Press Release and Translations (Markus)
* Motion to approve OSGeo Statement of Support for http://PublicGeodata.org web site (Markus w/Jo) (-> postponed to Third_Board_Meeting)
* Discussion on being a 501c3 corporation. 
* Discuss, and possibly approve the OSGeo FAQ.
== Minutes ==
See official minutes posted here
==Action Items==
# RichS and GaryL to open OSGeo bank account
# Arnulf and Daniel to work on creating wiki.osgeo.org
# Gary to provide copy of collabnet contract arrangement for “business resumption planning”.
# BOD to review/discuss online OSGeo FAQ by Wednesday, March 1st and post along with translations. 
# RichS to engage tax counsel to get application for 501c3 underway.
# FrankW to have process and criteria for Project Incubation Committee by next Board meeting.
# RichS to prepare FAQ for contributor agreements
# Significant contributors to foundation projects must (through Incubation Committee members), review and approve Contributor Agreements within the next 2 weeks. Post and discuss online.
# All Board members review and provide comment on OSGeo FAQ by Weds, March 1
# LauraR to provide tallied results of Member election by noon PST Tuesday, 2/28. Current members to vote on any ties and approve by Wednesday, March 1st.
# MarkusN to work with Sean Sternfeldt on press release to go out Wednesday, March 1st.
Category: Board
Board Meeting 2006 03 10

The 3rd board meeting is planned for Friday, March 10th at 8:00 a.m. PST (wold times), by phone and IRC (#osgeo) at the same time. 
From Skype call : +99038275318640 
To use a regular phone:
 From the US: call # 1-419-753-7120(free, long distance costs apply).
 From the UK: call # 0870-119-2350(10p/minute).
Your Conference Room Number is : 5318640. 
== Agenda ==
* Appoint meeting secretary.
* Approve (with review) Second Board Meeting minutes (see also here)
* Admission of New Members to the corporation.
* Motion to approve OSGeo Statement of Support for http://PublicGeodata.org web site (Markus w/Jo): see Draft statement
* Approve OSGeo Mission and goals document for publish site.
* Motion to form a Fundraising Committee.
* Discuss Goals/Mission and Enumerate Priorities (Gary)
== Minutes ==
See official minutes posted here
Category: Board
Board Meeting 2006 03 17

The 4th board meeting is planned for Friday, March 17th 2006 at 8:00 a.m. PST (wold times), by phone and IRC (#osgeo) at the same time. 
From Skype call : +99038275318640 
To use a regular phone:
 From the US: call # 1-419-753-7120(free, long distance costs apply).
 From the UK: call # 0870-119-2350(10p/minute).
Your Conference Room Number is : 5318640. 
== Agenda ==
* Appoint meeting secretary.
* Approve (with review) Third Board Meeting minutes
* Notice on Open Letter regarding the INSPIRE Directive (Markus)
* Notice/Motion to establish Public Geodata Committee/Project/WorkingGroup based on Public Geospatial Data Project (Markus/Jo)
* Notice on Education and Curriculum Project progress (Markus)
* Discussion of priorities (Gary)
== Minutes ==
See official minutes of meeting posted here
Category: Board
Board Meeting 2006 03 24

The 5th board meeting is planned for Friday, March 24th 2006 at 8:00 a.m. PST (fixedtime), by phone and IRC (#osgeo) at the same time. 
From Skype call : +99038275318640 
To use a regular phone:
 From the US: call # 1-419-753-7120 (free, long distance costs apply).
 From the UK: call # 0870-119-2350 (10p/minute).
Your Conference Room Number is : 5318640. 
== Agenda ==
* Appoint meeting chairperson and secretary.
* Review and approve prior meeting minutes
* Introduce newly elected board members
* Motion to increase the size of the board of directors to nine persons under Section 3.2 of the OSGeo bylaws
* Motion to appoint Jo, Venkatesh, Mark and Dave to fill the newly created vacancies on the board of directors pursuant to section 3.7 of the OSGeo bylaws
* Verify meeting time with regard to Asian participants
* Committee reports
* Motion on Education and Curriculum Committee (Markus)
== Minutes ==
See official minutes of meeting posted here
Category: Board
Board Meeting 2006 03 31

The 6th board meeting is planned for Friday, March 31th 2006 at 8:00 a.m. PST (fixedtime), by phone and IRC (#osgeo) at the same time. 
From Skype call : +99038275318640 
To use a regular phone:
 From the US: call # 1-419-753-7120 (free, long distance costs apply).
 From the UK: call # 0870-119-2350 (10p/minute).
Your Conference Room Number is : 5318640. 
== Agenda ==
* Appoint meeting chairperson and secretary.
* Review and approve prior meeting minutes
* Review previous discussion about committee reports, and what we want DanielB to do in that regard.
* Discussion of process for adding new local group lists (specifically South Africa, but should discuss to set a precedent)
== Minutes ==
See official minutes posted here.
Category: Board
Board Meeting 2006 04 28

The 8th board meeting is planned for Friday, April 28, 2006 at 15:00 UTC (fixedtime), by phone and IRC (#osgeo) at the same time.
From Skype call : +99038275318640 
To use a regular phone:
 From the US: call # 1-419-753-7120 (free, long distance costs apply).
 From the UK: call # 0870-119-2350 (10p/minute).
Your Conference Room Number is: 5318640. 
== Agenda ==
* Appoint meeting chairperson and secretary.
* Review and approve prior meeting minutes
* Discuss and adopt Committee Chair Guidelines
* Discuss appearance at Where 2.0, get back to Nat.
* Discuss request from Humaninet
* Get a date/place for face to face OSGeo meeting?
== Minutes ==
MINUTES OF A MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE OPEN SOURCE GEOSPATIAL FOUNDATION A Delaware non-stock corporation 
On April 28, 2006, at 8:00 am Pacific time, pursuant to notice duly given, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (the "Foundation" or "OSGeo") held a meeting by teleconference. 
Present at the meeting were the following members of the Board: Arnulf Christl, Chris Holmes, Dave McIllhagga, Markus Neteler, Frank Warmerdam, Mark Lucas, Jo Walsh and Gary Lang. The following director was absent at the commencement of the meeting, Venkatesh Raghavan. Also present at the request of the Board were Daniel Brookshier, VP Website Committee, and Jennifer Daehler, representing legal counsel and secretary to the Foundation, Rich Steele. All participants indicated that they could hear one another. Additionally, Internet Relay Chat was used for backup purposes (#osgeo on irc.freenode.net). Mr. McIllhagga was appointed chairperson of the meeting. Finding a quorum present, Mr. McIllhagga called the meeting to order. Laura Rivera was appointed secretary of the meeting. 
APPROVAL OF MINUTES 
The Board first approved by general consent the minutes of the meeting held on April 21, 2006. 
DISCUSS AND ADOPT COMMITTEE CHAIR GUIDELINES
The Board discussed adopting the Committee Guidelines written by legal counsel, Rich Steele. Several members were unclear about a two points regarding responsibilities of an officer, legal implications, a chair needing to be an officer, etc. Mr. Warmerdam suggested no formal decision be made until we clarified with Rich Steele. It was decided to withdraw these 2 points from the document and post as is.
DISCUSS APPEARANCE AT WHERE 2.0
Chris Holmes met with Nathan Torkington who informed him that Where 2.0 would be offering a 15 minute spot to plug the OSGeo Foundation. In addition, Mr. Lang volunteered Autodesk’s Diamond sponsorship to be used for OSGeo which includes a 30 minute keynote and booth.
REQUEST FROM HUMANINET
The Board next discussed the possibility of providing support for Humaninet. 
DATE/PLACE FOR FACE TO FACE OSGEO MEETING
The Board next discussed the status of the date and place for a face to face OSGEO meeting. It was decided that a proposal be made by this time next week along with agenda items.
ADJOURNMENT
Category: Board
Board Meeting 2006 11 10

The 20th board meeting has been scheduled for the 10th of November at 16:00 UTC (fixedtime), by phone and IRC (#osgeo) at the same time.
Communication will use the new Conference Call facilities.
== Agenda ==
* Appoint meeting secretary
* Review and approve Twentieth Board Meeting minutes
* Motion to welcome the GeoNetwork project into incubation on the recommendation of the Incubation Committee (GeoNetwork Application).
* Motion to welcome the OpenLayers project into incubation on the recommendation of the Incubation Committee (OpenLayers Application).
* Brief update from Tyler
== Minutes ==
In attendance Arnulf Christl, Mark Lucas, Dave McIllhagga (left after incubation votes), Jo Walsh, Frank Warmerdam and Tyler Mitchell (non-voting). Need for 5 voting board members to be present for quorum - this was achieved for the main voted items.
Meeting started at 16:00 UTC.
Mark Lucas and Tyler Mitchell were scribe.
=== Motion to accept Twentieth Board Meeting minutes ===
Mark motioned to accept, Arnulf seconded, motion to accept minutes was passed.
=== Motion to adopt Geonetwork into OSGeo incubation ===
As per application and incubation committee acceptance in [this email thread].
All were in favor - motion to accept Geonetwork into OSGeo incubation process was passed.
=== Motion to adopt OpenLayers into OSGeo incubation ===
As per application and incubation committee acceptance in [this email thread].
All were in favor - motion to accept OpenLayers into OSGeo incubation process was passed.
=== Executive Director Update ===
* Spent time getting office organized, including project management system for tracking to do lists and various activity tracking
* Making himself available on IRC more often now
* Started an informal blog about mainly OSGeo-related topics on his [personal website] - will move to an official OSGeo site when infrastructure is ready
* Was asked about whether content on current prototype Drupal site will be lost or not - answered 'no, we are planning to dump/import the content to new site'. 
* Preparing for OSGeo Visibility Committee attendance at Autodesk conference at end of month
* Working with Dave to set up a Geoconnections meeting in December in Ottawa
* Aiming to make similar pitch to US Government agencies in Washington, DC in February
* Mentioned the Springer publication of a GIS Encyclopedia and how there is [an opportunity] to have open source geospatial applications covered in the text. Tight timelines (Dec) for submission. See [email] from Andreas for how to get involved.
* Infrastructure status update - Talked with Bob Bray regarding start up of new systems admin. Bob wants admin to review our plan and respond with a technical plan, including a review of the server quote. Admin started this this week, more discussion mid-next week.
* Tyler will talk to Porter next week to come up to speed on Legal status (let Tyler know if there are any issues that need to be addressed)
=== Motion to close the meeting ===
Mark motioned, Jo seconds, all agreed. Meeting closed at 16:18 UTC
Category: Board