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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
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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)

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