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1		-|=Type of selection/specific examples|=Details about selectors|=Details about board structure|=Frequency of election?|=Link to more details
	1	+|=Type of selection/specific examples|=Details about selectors|=Terms (or other details)|=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.|One year term| Annual| http:~/~/www.gnome.org/foundation/governance/
	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	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|Two year term|?|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|Three year term|Annual; 1/3rd of seats up for election each year|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/
10	10	|//**Self-selecting board**//| | | |
11	11	|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/
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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| (((
	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| (((
15	15	|http:~/~/metabrainz.org/
16	16	)))
17		-|//**Election by sub-groups**//| | | |
	26	+|Free Software Foundation|Founder chooses| | |
18	18	| | | | |
19	19	| | | | |
	29	+|//**Election by sub-groups**//| | | |
	30	+|(none purely with this model; see hybrids below)| | | |
	31	+| | | | |
20	20	|//**Donor election**//|e.g., most 501(c)6s| | |
	33	+|(none purely with this model, see hybrids below)| | | |
21	21	| | | | |
22	22	|//**Hybrid model**//|e.g., two or more of the above| | |
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	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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25	25	Others not yet in the table:
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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.
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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.
	50	+* Linux Foundation