[Osmf-talk] 2025 Board election - Submission of self-nominations is open until 5 July at 23:59:59 UTC

[Dorothea Kazazi]

Hello,

The 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the OpenStreetMap Foundation
is scheduled to place online on Saturday 13 September 2025 at 16:00 UTC.

This meeting will have a board election, with at least three of the seven
board seats available. Board members are volunteers and typically serve
for two years until their seat is up for re-election.

The main two pages that have the information about the board election 
and the 2025 Annual General Meeting, are:
* OSM wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM2025/Election_to_Board and
* OSM Foundation website: https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meetings/2025

You can put yourself forward as a board candidate by adding your information
at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM2025/Election_to_Board#Board_candidates
* Please check the eligibility requirements below.
* Deadline: 5 July 2025, 23:59:59 UTC.
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=2025+OSMF+board+election+-+Deadline+for+candidate+self-nominations&iso=20250705T235959&p1=1440

You can find information on what the board is/is not, rules,
responsibilities and personal views of current and past board members
at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM2025/Election_to_Board#What_the_board_is/is_not,_rules_and_responsibilities


### Eligibility criteria for board candidates

Any person may be elected to become a board member, provided that:
* They are normal(1) OSMF members 28 days before the General Meeting(2),
and
* they have been a normal member or associate(3) member during the full
180 days before the General Meeting, and
* are willing to act as a board member, and
* are permitted by law to do so.

(1) Normal members provide their full residential address and can vote
on all issues. Their residential address may be disclosed to other
members.
(2) The General Meeting is scheduled to take place on 13 September 2025.
(3) Associate members provide just their country of residence and can
vote - but not on all issues. More information at https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Membership


### Finding the type of your OSMF membership (normal/associate)

If you want to find out the type of your membership (Normal or
Associate), please check the most recent approval/renewal membership
email before emailing the volunteers of the Membership Working Group
at membership at osmfoundation.org from the email address which is
associated with your OSMF membership.


### Associate members who want to become board candidates

You can change your OSMF membership type from associate to normal
by emailing the volunteers of the Membership Working Group
https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Membership_Working_Group.
* Send your email from the email address which is associated with your
OSMF membership.
* It is necessary to provide your residential address, which will be
available to other OSMF members.
* Please change your membership type before adding your self-nomination
to the candidates' table. If you decide to be a candidate at the last
minute, you can still add yourself as an associate member, but you
have to change your membership type immediately after the submission
period of self-nominations closes. In this case please email both
membership at osmfoundation.org and dorothea at osmfoundation.org
Thank you.


### For candidates: General information

* Please read https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM2025/Election_to_Board#Board_candidates
* There is a questioning process: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM2025/Election_to_Board#Questions_to_candidates
Please do not answer the questions by the community at this stage.
The facilitator for the questioning process, Brian Sperlongano,
will publish an official set of questions, based on this year's community
questions and past ones. The official set of questions will be published
above the community questions, probably on 2025-07-26 at
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Foundation/AGM2025/Election_to_Board
and board candidates will be notified.
* Please follow the instructions at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM2025/Election_to_Board#Answering_the_official_questions_and_writing_a_manifesto
regarding formatting your answers and manifesto, and send them before
2025-08-08 23:59:59 UTC.
* Answers and manifestos will be published by the administrative
assistant. The proposed date is 16 August 2025.
* Then discussion commences, preferably until 6 September 16:00 UTC, when
voting opens.

This is expected to be the official election campaign process. We won't
restrict members to continue to talk on our members' mailing list nor
will we restrict candidates to continue discussions, but we don't
encourage them to do so. The official answers and questions thereof
should be what voters use to judge.


### For members: You can submit questions to the candidates

OSM Foundation members can submit questions to the board candidates
on the OSM wiki https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Foundation/AGM2025/Election_to_Board
until July 12 ("by end of day", in UTC). An official set of questions,
based on the community questions and questions from previous years,
will be published on the page above by the facilitator, Brian 
Sperlongano, on July 26.


### For members: You can propose resolutions

OSM Foundation members can submit resolutions and ask the membership
to vote on them. The resolutions need to be supported by at least 5%
of members eligible to vote, in order to be added to the ballots.
Please read: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/part/13#section-292
The deadline for providing the supported resolutions is the end
of July 12 (in UTC).

Thank you for participating in this election.

warm greetings,
Dorothea