Wiki source code of FLOSS Foundations Board and Membership Selections
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| 1 | |=Type of selection/specific examples|=Details about selectors|=Details about board structure|=Frequency of election?|=Link to more details | ||
| 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/ | ||
| 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 | |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 | |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/ | ||
| 8 | |Apache Software Foundation|Members vote for board; members are all individuals approved by the existing membership on basis of their contribution.|?|?| | ||
| 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 | |//**Self-selecting board**//| | | | | ||
| 11 | |Creative Commons|Community and affiliates may nominate members but do not directly select them|?|?|http:~/~/creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/38704 | ||
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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| ((( | ||
| 15 | |http:~/~/metabrainz.org/ | ||
| 16 | ))) | ||
| 17 | |//**Election by sub-groups**//| | | | | ||
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| 20 | |//**Donor election**//|e.g., most 501(c)6s| | | | ||
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| 22 | |//**Hybrid model**//|e.g., two or more of the above| | | | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| 37 | PostgreSQL Europe | ||
| 38 | Annual general election by certified members. | ||
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| 40 | JPUG (Japan) | ||
| 41 | Annual election by local officers of the local chapters. |