<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448927509689_15910"><span>Thanks for clarifying Simon</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448927509689_15910"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448927509689_15910"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448927509689_16014">Wow, a four year term for one of the elected Board! If elected, I would of course aim to serve, however designated as 2, 3, or 4 year.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448927509689_15910">My main point is that it might be wise to examine this. Not the highest priority however.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448927509689_15910"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448927509689_15910">-Mikel</div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448927509689_15897"> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448927509689_15896">* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron</div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Monday, November 30, 2015 7:38 PM, Simon Poole <simon@poole.ch> wrote:<br></font></div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Just as a note to the candidates:<br><br>Mikel has in his answers to the questions on<br><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Foundation/AGM15/Election_to_Board" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Foundation/AGM15/Election_to_Board</a><br>referred to three year terms multiple times, there are however no such<br>three year terms.<br><br>Your term will be determined by a rotation system as long as the current<br>articles remain unchanged. There was a long discussion last year on this<br>list on the subject which explored the topic in depth. The tl;dr version<br>is that your term can be anything from 2 to 4 years, depending on when<br>board members were elected, when they step down, how large the board is<br>in absolute terms and likely on the phase of the moon too.<br><br>As example, assuming nothing out of the norm happens:<br><br>2016 Kate and either Frederik or Paul will have to stand for re-election<br>(note: one 3 year and one 2 year term)<br>2017 The "lucky" one in 2016 plus one of the successful candidates of<br>this year will need to stand (note: 2 year term)<br>2018 Two of the remaining three successful candidates from this year<br>will need to stand (note: 2x 3 year term)<br>2019 The remaining successful candidate from this year will have to<br>stand (note: 4 year term)<br><br>Simon<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>osmf-talk mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org">osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmf-talk" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmf-talk</a><br><br><br></div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>