<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello everyone, <br><br></div>As the AGM draws nearer, I wanted to ensure you are all aware of the upcoming deadlines related to the elections. This is directly copied from the election wiki page[1]<br><br>2017-11-25 16:00 UTC - Deadline for members to put themselves forward for election<br>2017-12-02 16:00 UTC - Voting opens (exactly 1 week before AGM)<br>2017-12-09 16:00 UTC Start of Annual General Meeting on IRC, Deadline for voting<br><br>[1] <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM17/Election_to_Board">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM17/Election_to_Board</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Paul Norman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:penorman@mac.com" target="_blank">penorman@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 11/9/2017 4:31 PM, Paul Norman wrote:<br>
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11/9/2017 1:23 PM, Simon Poole wrote:
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Yes, but will they be standing for re-election?
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This is not just a flippant question. While Paul and Illya they
are not required to announce this in advance, in general
incumbents will get re-elected and some potential candidates
might want to know what they are up against (same issue last
year btw).
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I have not decided. Obviously, I will have decide one way or the
other soon.
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After several people have asked me to, I've decided to stand for
re-election. I'll be posting a manifesto with more details, but,
aside from the feedback I got, some of the main reasons were<br>
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- Diversity<br>
- Only having two candidates<br>
- Although I use OSM in my work, it's different than the other board
members. The companies who I contract with tend to be in different
areas, so my conflicts of interests tend to not be the ones that
other board members have.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Paul<br>
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