2014 CM nominations post

OSGeo Charter Member Elections 2014
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 * Elections page with instructions and schedule
 * OSGeo Membership
 * OSGeo Charter Member list

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As in every year, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation will have an election process to allow anyone in the community to become active in the growth of the foundation, by becoming a Charter Member; new people bring new energy, points of view, and diversity. Do you know somebody who is involved with Open Source geospatial software, education or geospatial open data and could contribute to OSGeo's mission and goals? Anybody can nominate anybody, there is no requirement for a prior formal involvement with OSGeo. Please consider making a nomination for Charter Membership. Find out more about positive attributes expected from new Charter Members.

OSGeo Charter Members maintain the integrity of the Foundation. They "own" the Foundation, they elect new Charter Members and the Board of Directors. OSGeo uses the term "Charter" Member to explicitly indicate that these members are responsible for upholding the "Charter" of the Foundation. We emphasize that the only real difference between any regular member and a Charter Member is the responsibility to vote at the Foundation level. It is not our intent to make the Charter Members some "privileged" class. All mailing lists, projects, committees, and other Foundation activities are uniformly open and available to all friends of the Foundation.

Charter Members are eligible to serve on the Board of Directors which is responsible for regular day to day operations of the Foundation. Part of the Board of Directors is renewed each year. Nominations and election of new board members take place in August. Read more about the Foundation Membership.

The 2014 Charter Member nomination period runs for two weeks starting from 2014-07-19 and ending on 2014-08-01. Find all details here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2014

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Hi all, OSGeo elections are about to start. The nomination period for new Charter Member starts tomorrow Saturday 19 of July. Please, consider nominating new Charter Members within the next two weeks and help keep the Foundation to be even more diverse, represented by people from even more countries, languages, profiles (e.g. Academic, Private, Government, etc.) and interests. For sure you know people that could bring new points of view and energy to OSGeo, so tell them about the elections and convince them to join such a vibrant community! Elections page: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2014 News item: http://www.osgeo.org/elections_2014 Please help spread the word and also reach out to communities who have not yet been connected with OSGeo. Best Regards Jorge