Wiki source code of FLOSS Foundations Board and Membership Selections
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| 1 | |=Type of selection/specific examples|=Details about selectors|=Terms (or other details)|=Frequency of election?|=Link to more details | ||
| 2 | |//**General membership election**//| | | | | ||
| 3 | |GNOME Foundation|Comprised of Foundation members; members must be contributors to the project; protections against any one company employing more than a certain %age of board members|One year term| Annual| http:~/~/www.gnome.org/foundation/governance/ | ||
| 4 | |Humanitarian Open Street Map|"voting members"- individuals who are contributors to the project; members are nominated by an existing member and confirmed by existing membership|One year term| Annual|http:~/~/wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Board_Elections | ||
| 5 | |Open Source Geospatial Foundation|"charter members"- individuals who are contributors to the project; members are nominated by an existing member and confirmed by existing membership|?|?|http:~/~/www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/incorporation/bylaws.html | ||
| 6 | |Open Street Map Foundation|voting members are anyone who pays the yearly membership fee|?|?|http:~/~/wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM14/Election_to_Board | ||
| 7 | |Software in the Public Interest (affiliated with Debian)|"contributing members" (may be individuals or organizations) approved by a membership committee; organizational members have 1 vote each, like individual members|Three year term|Annual; 1/3rd of seats up for election each year|http:~/~/spi-inc.org/corporate/by-laws/ | ||
| 8 | |Apache Software Foundation|Members vote for board; members are all individuals approved by the existing membership on basis of their contribution.|?|?| | ||
| 9 | |CACert|Members vote at annual general meeting (held on IRC)|7 members; 3 must be Australian|Annual| https:~/~/wiki.cacert.org/AGM/Next | ||
| 10 | |Python Software Foundation|Members vote| | | https:~/~/www.python.org/psf/bylaws/ | ||
| 11 | |Gentoo Foundation|Members vote; membership obtained "on request" but membership lapses if no votes are cast in two consecutive board elections|| | | ||
| 12 | |The Document Foundation (affiliated with the LibreOffice project)|Elected by foundation membership, which is open free of charge to all our contributors, upon review of their | ||
| 13 | contribution|Two year term| | https:~/~/www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/statutes/ | ||
| 14 | | KDE e.V.|All active members of KDE e.V. get to vote in board elections at annual general meeting|Three year term| Annual| https:~/~/ev.kde.org/corporate/statutes.php | ||
| 15 | | Gentoo|Active members vote for board; members selected by petitioning board for membership.|One-year term; limited to two consecutive terms| Annual|https:~/~/www.gentoo.org/foundation/en/ | ||
| 16 | |Apereo Foundation|Institutional member organizations have a named representative that votes for board members, board can also appoint up to three additional members|three-year term, limited to two consecutive terms|Annual, rotating through all elected members over a three year cycle|https:~/~/www.apereo.org/bylaws | ||
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| 18 | |//**Self-selecting board**//| | | | | ||
| 19 | |Creative Commons|Community and affiliates may nominate members but do not directly select them|?|?|http:~/~/creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/38704 | ||
| 20 | |Mifos Initiative|Seeded from community leaders and with people invited for their core skills and alignment after initial seeding.| |As needed| | ||
| 21 | |Benetech|Self-perpetuating board; Founder has right to appoint one member (currently also the Founder)| | | http:~/~/benetech.org/about-us/who-we-are/ | ||
| 22 | |Mozilla Foundation|Elected by existing board| |Annual|https:~/~/static.mozilla.com/foundation/documents/mf-bylaws.pdf | ||
| 23 | |Software Freedom Conservancy|Elected by existing board| | | https:~/~/sfconservancy.org/about/board/ | ||
| 24 | | Free Software Foundation|Elected by voting members (primarily current and past board members).| | | | ||
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| 26 | |//**External authority**//|e.g., appointed by a single corporation, or by the project/Foundationfounder| | | | ||
| 27 | |Metabrainz Foundation (affiliated with Musicbrainz project)|President chooses|No term limits | As needed|((( | ||
| 28 | |http:~/~/metabrainz.org/ | ||
| 29 | ))) | ||
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| 33 | |//**Election by sub-groups**//| | | | | ||
| 34 | |(none purely with this model; see hybrids below)| | | | | ||
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| 36 | |//**Donor election**//|e.g., most 501(c)6s| | | | ||
| 37 | |(none purely with this model, see hybrids below)| | | | | ||
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| 39 | |//**Hybrid model**//|e.g., two or more of the above| | | | ||
| 40 | |Eclipse Foundation|(Complex system, necessarily simplified) large donors meeting certain criteria can directly appoint board members; classes of smaller donors can vote amongst themselves to appoint some board members; developer and sustaining community members can elect some members in annual election|Depends|Annual for "commiter" (i.e., developer community) members, and "Sustaining" (i.e. typically smaller company) members|https:~/~/www.eclipse.org/org/documents/Eclipse%20BYLAWS%202011_08_15%20Final.pdf | ||
| 41 | |OpenStack Foundation|2 classes of corporate foundation membership - Platinum | ||
| 42 | and Gold. Platinum members, of which there are 8, each appoint one board | ||
| 43 | representative. Gold members, of which there can be a max of 24 select 8 | ||
| 44 | representatives from amongst themselves. Individual | ||
| 45 | foundation membership is open to anyone with interest, and that | ||
| 46 | membership class also elects 8 representatives. | |Individual and Gold | ||
| 47 | member representatives all sit for a one year term.|http:~/~/www.openstack.org/election/2015-individual-director-election/ | ||
| 48 | |Open Source Initiative|Members can be individuals or other organizations; each member class separately nominates board representatives. (For legacy reasons, existing board must approve those nominations, but trying to move towards a model where these are actual elections rather than voting on a nomination.)| | | http:~/~/opensource.org/elections | ||
| 49 | |Wikimedia Foundation|one founder's seat (reserved for [[Jimmy Wales>>url:http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees#Jimmy_Wales]]); two seats selected by the [[Wikimedia chapters>>url:http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters||class="mw-redirect" title="Wikimedia chapters"]]; three seats elected directly by the [[Wikimedia community>>url:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community||class="extiw" title="m:Community"]]; four seats appointed by the rest of the Board for specific expertise| | | http:~/~/wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees | ||
| 50 | |Linux Foundation|Individual members of the Linux Foundation vote to pick 2 board members to represent them. Other members of the board of the Linux foundation are taken from member companies (Platinum | ||
| 51 | members get a board seat, other levels vote for a seat from their group). Also the head of the Technical Advisory Board of the LF has a seat on the board, and that board is voted on every year from the Linux kernel community.| | | http:~/~/www.linuxfoundation.org/about/bylaws (Sec. 5.3) |