Changes for page FLOSS Foundations Board and Membership Selections
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... ... @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ 11 11 |Gentoo Foundation|Members vote; membership obtained "on request" but membership lapses if no votes are cast in two consecutive board elections|| | 12 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 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| 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 15 | | | | | 16 16 |//**Self-selecting board**//| | | | 17 17 |Creative Commons|Community and affiliates may nominate members but do not directly select them|?|?|http:~/~/creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/38704 ... ... @@ -45,7 +45,5 @@ 45 45 member representatives all sit for a one year term.|http:~/~/www.openstack.org/election/2015-individual-director-election/ 46 46 |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 47 47 |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 48 - 49 -Others not yet in the table: 50 - 51 -* Linux Foundation 48 +|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 49 + 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)