The OSI’s 2018 elections ran from February 3, with the opening of nominations, through March 16, when the voting was closed at 12:00 midnight PDT. This year’s Board of Directors election sought to fill two Affiliate Member seats, and two Individual Member seats.
Voting in OSI elections is open to all OSI Individual Members and the community representative of each OSI Affiliate Member. Only the Individual Members may vote in the election of Individual Member seats and only the Affiliate Member representatives may vote in the election of Affiliate Member seats (only one vote per Affiliate Member, as submitted by the affiliate representative). Elections for OSI Directors are held according to “approval voting”, where each eligible voter votes for as many candidates as they feel are qualified to hold a Board seat. The candidates supported by the greatest number of voters are elected to the open seats.
Again, in this year’s election, the OSI was fortunate with a slate of highly qualified and enthusiastic candidates. The complete list of candidates running for Individual and Affiliate seats is available on the OSI wiki.
The OSI would like to thank all of those who ran for the Board. Volunteering to serve the OSI and support the Open Source community is a tremendous commitment in time and energy–we truly appreciate their willingness to contribute to our continued success and participate in our ongoing work to promote and protect open source software, communities, and development as well as the ideals and ethos inherent to the open source movement.
The winners of the 2018 Board of Directors elections are,
- VM Brasseur (elected by the Individual Membership)
- Chris Lamb (elected by the Affiliate Membership)
- Faidon Liambotis (elected by the Affiliate Membership)
- Josh Simmons (elected by the Individual Membership)
We would like to welcome the new Board Directors and thank the OSI membership for voting. The current Board will meet on Monday, March 19, 2018 to ratify the election results. New Board Directors will take their seats on April 2nd, 2018.
Image credit:
“2018ElectionResults.png” by Open Source Initiative, 2019, CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication, is a derivative of “11998838613_53cebc6d3f.jpg” a U.S. Department of Agriculture photo by Tom Witham, availabe under Public Domain, via the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
