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==Current Board==
 
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'''Matt Amos''' (Director) is an engineer and general code-monkey, and has been involved in OpenStreetMap since 2004. He has contributed to the [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Rails_port rails site/API], JOSM and the [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OWL_(OpenStreetMap_Watch_List) OWL monitoring system]. He works as a code-monkey for MapQuest and lives in London, UK.
 
* [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Matt User:Matt on the wiki]
* http://www.asklater.com/matt/wordpress/
 
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'''Oliver Kühn''' (Director, Treasurer) is co-founder of skobbler (now TeleNav), a company building software solutions based on OpenStreetMap. He has
been working in the digital mapping industry for the last 6 years while his expertise is rather on the commercial than the technical side. He joined the OpenStreetMap Foundation in 2009 and has been elected as member of OSMF board in August 2010.
 
* http://www.abalakov.com
 
Other directorships held: [http://www.skobbler.com skobbler GmbH, Germany] (now Telenav)
 
 
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'''Frederik Ramm''' (Director, Secretary) is a long-time OSM contributor and coder of editors and utilities, co-author of the first ever OpenStreetMap book, founder and acting director of Geofabrik, and an active participiant on most OSM mailing lists and help forums. He was voted onto the board at the 2012 AGM. He lives in Karlsruhe, Germany.
'''Simon Poole''' (Director, Chairman) is best known for two successful Internet startups that he co-founded and manged as CEO in the 90s and 00s in Switzerland. After studying physics at Zürich University, he worked for a short period of time for the Swiss university computer network SWITCH and then moved on to co-found the first commercial ISP in Switzerland. He contributed a number of patches to the minix operating system in 1989 before coming to the conclusion that it should really be rewritten from scratch (which somebody else did later on).
 
* [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:SimonPoole User:SimonPoole on the wiki]
 
Other directorships held: Swiss OpenStreetMap Association
 
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'''Frederik Ramm''' (Director, Secretary) is a long-time OSM contributor and coder of editors and utilities, co-author of the first ever OpenStreetMap book, founder and acting director of Geofabrik, and an active participiant on most OSM mailing lists and help forums. He was voted onto the board at the 2012 AGM. He lives in Karlsruhe, Germany.
 
* [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Frederik_Ramm User:Frederik_Ramm on the wiki]
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