[Osmf-talk] Potential AoA change: Count time as associate member for board candidacy requirements

[Clifford Snow]

Tobias,
Two questions. First, can you provide us with the number of regular members
and associate members? Second, have you reached out to associate members to
get their thoughts on this proposal?

Best,
Clifford

On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 3:59 AM Tobias Knerr <osm at tobias-knerr.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> the OSMF board discovered an oversight in the Articles of Association
> (AoA) during the preparations for last year's elections: People who have
> been part of the OSMF for a long time, but spent much of that time as
> associate members, may be prevented from running for the board because
> they do not formally meet the requirement of having been a member for
> 180 days. This is because "associate members" are, counter-intuitively,
> not treated as a subset of "members" in the AoA.
>
> Therefore, we are considering to propose the following change to
> paragraph 79 of our AoA:
>
> ## Before
>
> Any person who has been a member of the Foundation during the full 180
> days prior to their appointment, and who is willing to act as a
> director, and is permitted by law to do so, may be appointed to be a
> director-
> :(1) by election at a general meeting; or
> :(2) by a decision of the directors.
>
> ## After
>
> Any person who has been a member of the Foundation during the full 28
> days prior to their appointment, and has been a member or associate
> member of the Foundation during the full 180 days prior to their
> appointment, and who is willing to act as a director, and is permitted
> by law to do so, may be appointed to be a director-
> :(1) by election at a general meeting; or
> :(2) by a decision of the directors.
>
> We hope that this is a straightforward correction. Directors still need
> to be regular members, but under the new rules, they would have time to
> change their status after deciding to stand for election.
>
> Please share your feedback! And if you have input on how the text on
> https://join.osmfoundation.org/ could be improved to make the
> differences between the membership types more understandable, we would
> be interested in hearing about that as well.
>
> Yours,
> Tobias
>
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