Annual General Meetings/2024

18th Annual General Meeting of the OpenStreetMap Foundation

Date and time: The 18th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) will be held online on Saturday 19 October 2024, 16:00 UTC (countdown).

The main order of business is to present the financial accounts for the last year, and the announcement of the board election results. Members can also ask questions.

Members eligible to vote do not have to attend the Annual General Meeting, but can vote via email. Election results will be sent to their email addresses after the AGM.

Winners are Craig Allan, Maurizio Napolitano, Laura Mugeha, and Héctor Ochoa Ortiz.

The OpaVote results were announced after confirmation by Michael Spreng (Membership Working Group volunteer) using OpenSTV.

Raw ballots and detailed results for the election to board are available at:

• the Opavote website, accessible until 21 December 2024.
• on the OSM Foundation website.

Agenda

1. Apologies for absence
2. Minutes of the previous General Meeting
3. Chairperson’s report
4. Treasurer's report
5. Personnel committee's report
6. Election to Board
7. Any other business

Join

This page and the IRC page on the OSM wiki have information on how to connect to the online room where the General Meeting will take place.

To join you can:

1. use your browser to connect to this OFTC webchat room - pick a nickname (no spaces) and click 'Login'. It can take a few seconds to log in. You should see some mess with a '***' prefix. If it doesn't work, please check your browser add-ons/settings or try with a different browser.
2. use a dedicated IRC client software (comparison at Wikipedia). You will need to input irc.oftc.net as the IRC server, and #osmf-gm as the channel. IRC communicates over a special port number which may be blocked by your office firewall. If you want to establish a connection with SSL, use Port 6697, or
3. use your browser to join this Matrix room - you need an account to join.

When you join, please send your full name to Dorothea, who will be present in the same channel - this is necessary to create the list of OSMF members who attended the meeting.
- Via IRC, type /msg dorothea your_name
- Via Matrix or a web-browser: try clicking or right clicking on her name and sending a message. Thank you.

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Proposed resolutions

There were no resolution proposed by the OSMF board or the membership.

Board Election

Foundation members voted to elect four new board members in October. There are seven seats on the board. The OSM wiki has more information.

Voting instructions and FAQ

See Annual_General_Meetings/2024/Voting_Information_and_Instructions.

IMPORTANT - Test your browser settings, otherwise you might send an empty vote

The voting emails from OpaVote (will be sent to eligible OSM Foundation members on the 12th of October 2024, after 16:00 UTC) will link directly to the voting page, which will be listing each candidate in random order and allowing you to rank the candidates in order of preference.

If you do not see the names of the candidates on the page linked from the voting email:

• Please make sure that you have Javascript enabled. Disable any plugins that block content (like Decentraleyes or uBlock Origin). Otherwise the list of the candidates will not be visible and you will send an empty vote.
• Test your browser settings before voting by visiting this sandbox voting page where you should see a list of OpenStreetMap editors (randomised each time you load the page). Use the same browser settings when you proceed to vote for the election and resolutions. The sandbox page is only for testing purposes: the vote button does not work and votes on the OSM editors are not counted.
• Cookies must also be allowed to avoid sending an empty vote.
• Community members who block outgoing requests to Google-run websites must temporarily unblock these requests to participate in the vote, as the OpaVote voting page relies on ajax.googleapis.com to display the list of candidates.

Here is a preview of how the actual voting page should look (except the red arrows and the fake candidate list).

Facilitator for the questions to the board candidates

The board has asked Brian Sperlongano to be the facilitator.

Brian Sperlongano is a map hobbyist from Rhode Island, USA, who has contributed to OpenStreetMap since 2010, when he began mapping hiking trails. From 2022-2024 he served on the OpenStreetMap US board of directors, serving as Secretary and Vice President. He runs StreetFerret, an OSM-based tracking and statistics service for athletes. His other initiatives include the OSM Americana map style, a community vector tile server, a wikidata error checker for US boundaries, and browser plugins for displaying human-readable wikidata on osm.org. He has shepherded five proposals through the OSM proposal process and given several talks on OSM-related topics at conferences at OSM mappy hours.

Access to OpaVote online platform

• Dorothea Kazazi (Administrative Assistant)
• Michael Spreng (Membership Working Group volunteer)

Confirmation of OpaVote results with OpenSTV

• Michael Spreng (Membership Working Group volunteer)

Key dates

• Key dates are on the OSM wiki - the authoritative source for dates.
• Online calendar.

IRC log and draft minutes

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