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8 8  |//**General membership election**//| | | |
9 9  |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/
10 10  |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
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17 17  |Gentoo Foundation|Members vote; membership obtained "on request" but membership lapses if no votes are cast in two consecutive board elections|| |
18 18  |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
19 19   contribution|Two year term| | https:~/~/www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/statutes/
20 -| KDE e.V.|All active members of KDE e.V. get to vote in board elections at annual general meeting|Three year term| Annual|
21 -| | | | |
22 22  |//**Self-selecting board**//| | | |
23 23  |Creative Commons|Community and affiliates may nominate members but do not directly select them|?|?|http:~/~/creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/38704
24 24  |Mifos Initiative|Seeded from community leaders and with people invited for their core skills and alignment after initial seeding.| |As needed|
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28 28  | | | | |
29 29  | | | | |
30 30  |//**External authority**//|e.g., appointed by a single corporation, or by the project/Foundationfounder| | |
31 -|Metabrainz Foundation (affiliated with Musicbrainz project)|President chooses|No term limits | As needed|(((
23 +|Metabrainz Foundation (affiliated with Musicbrainz project)|President chooses|No term limits | As needed| (((
32 32  |http:~/~/metabrainz.org/
33 33  )))
34 34  |Free Software Foundation|Founder chooses| | |
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41 41  |(none purely with this model, see hybrids below)| | | |
42 42  | | | | |
43 43  |//**Hybrid model**//|e.g., two or more of the above| | |
44 -|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
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
45 45  |OpenStack Foundation|2 classes of corporate foundation membership - Platinum
46 46   and Gold. Platinum members, of which there are 8, each appoint one board
47 47   representative. Gold members, of which there can be a max of 24 select 8
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52 52  |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
53 53  |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
54 54  
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55 55  Others not yet in the table:
56 56  
57 57  * Linux Foundation