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1 -|=Type of selection/specific examples|=Details about selectors|=Terms (or other details)|=Frequency of election?|=Link to more details
1 +|=Type of selection/specific examples|=Details about selectors|=Details about board structure|=Frequency of election?|=Link to more details
2 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/
3 +|GNOME Foundation|Comprised of Foundation members; members must be contributors to the project.|One year term| Annual| http:~/~/www.gnome.org/foundation/governance/
4 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 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 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/
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|Two year term|?|http:~/~/spi-inc.org/corporate/by-laws/
8 8  |Apache Software Foundation|Members vote for board; members are all individuals approved by the existing membership on basis of their contribution.|?|?|
9 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 14  |//**Self-selecting board**//| | | |
15 15  |Creative Commons|Community and affiliates may nominate members but do not directly select them|?|?|http:~/~/creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/38704
16 -|Mifos Initiative|Seeded from community leaders and with people invited for their core skills and alignment after initial seeding.| |As needed|
17 -|Benetech|Self-perpetuating board; Founder has right to appoint one member (currently also the Founder)| | | http:~/~/benetech.org/about-us/who-we-are/
18 -|Mozilla Foundation|Elected by existing board| |Annual|https:~/~/static.mozilla.com/foundation/documents/mf-bylaws.pdf
19 -|Software Freedom Conservancy|Elected by existing board| | | https:~/~/sfconservancy.org/about/board/
20 20  | | | | |
21 -| | | | |
22 -|//**External authority**//|e.g., appointed by a single corporation, or by the project/Foundationfounder| | |
23 -|Metabrainz Foundation (affiliated with Musicbrainz project)|President chooses|No term limits | As needed| (((
13 +| //**External authority**//|e.g., appointed by a single corporation, or by the project/Foundationfounder| | |
14 +| Metabrainz Foundation (affiliated with Musicbrainz project)| President chooses|No term limits | As needed| (((
24 24  |http:~/~/metabrainz.org/
25 25  )))
26 -|Free Software Foundation|Founder chooses| | |
27 -| | | | |
28 -| | | | |
29 29  |//**Election by sub-groups**//| | | |
30 -|(none purely with this model; see hybrids below)| | | |
31 31  | | | | |
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32 32  |//**Donor election**//|e.g., most 501(c)6s| | |
33 -|(none purely with this model, see hybrids below)| | | |
34 34  | | | | |
35 35  |//**Hybrid model**//|e.g., two or more of the above| | |
36 -|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 community members can elect some members in annual election|Depends|Annual for "commiter" (i.e., developer community) members|https:~/~/www.eclipse.org/org/documents/Eclipse%20BYLAWS%202011_08_15%20Final.pdf
37 -|OpenStack Foundation|2 classes of corporate foundation membership - Platinum
38 - and Gold. Platinum members, of which there are 8, each appoint one board
39 - representative. Gold members, of which there can be a max of 24 select 8
40 - representatives from amongst themselves. Individual
41 - foundation membership is open to anyone with interest, and that
42 - membership class also elects 8 representatives. | |Individual and Gold
43 - member representatives all sit for a one year term.|http:~/~/www.openstack.org/election/2015-individual-director-election/
44 -|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
45 -|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
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46 46  
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48 48  Others not yet in the table:
49 49  
50 -* Linux Foundation
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28 +PostgreSQL can be a survey in itself:
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30 +PostgreSQL.US
31 + Election of membership, who are defined as donors which meet a minimum
32 + level. However, elections are not regularly scheduled.
33 +
34 +PostgreSQL Community Association of Canada
35 + Self-appointing board. All corporation members are also on the board.
36 +
37 +PostgreSQL Europe
38 + Annual general election by certified members.
39 +
40 +JPUG (Japan)
41 + Annual election by local officers of the local chapters.