Greetings Global Community of HOT,
(my apologies, I meant to send this on Monday but was focused on our Activations) There are never enough ways to thank you for all that you have done and continue to do for HOT. It is my pleasure to announce that the Voting Members of HOT have launched the nomination period for a New Member Election. Voting Members are our ‘core team’ that handle governance such as Bylaws, Board Member Elections, and of course - electing additional Voting Members. The short-story of the way it works is, each existing member can nominate one person, and if elected, that nominator mentors the nominee as they navigate HOT/OSM and achieve their goals. Those of you who love what we are doing and accept the long and grueling challenge of ensuring effective governance of the organization as well as strengthening and growing it, I welcome you to contact myself or any of the wonderful people you may have worked with here: http://hotosm.org/voting-members - rights and responsibilities are also defined in the Membership Code linked/attached to that page. New Member Nominees are not required to campaign in any way, but are encouraged to document their aspirations somewhere that will be linked to the ballot (or otherwise work with their nominator to provide links/text for the ballot). It is not easy to be elected as our existing membership takes many things into account, including diversity. To be elected, a nominee must gain written consent from ⅔ of the existing membership, in other word 57 of the 86 current Voting Members must approve their nomination via ballot (think of it as a petition requiring a certain number of signatures). Detailed procedures are documented here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1- 83ZQvgXLentCAMS37gOPe1Lhmzs1UsqliohxfogJWk The nomination period ends November 6th; at which point nominees, their nominator and/or supports will have until basically the end of November (28th) to introduce themselves via the membership mailing list and/or IRC/Mumble/etc. Results will be ratified at a Special Meeting of the Voting Members, tentatively between December 12th and 20th and announced shortly after. Any questions regarding membership or this election process, please don’t hesitate to contact me directly. On behalf of the Voting Members, we cannot wait to meet the nominees! =Russ Russell Deffner Chairperson for the Voting Members Email: [email protected] OSM/Skype: russdeffner Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Web <http://hotosm.org/> | Wiki <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team> | Blog <http://hotosm.org/updates> | Contact <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team#Communication> | Donate <http://hotosm.org/donate>
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