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==Current Board==
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'''Kate Chapman''' began contributing to OSM in 2009. She is a cofounder of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), a non-governmental organization dedicated to helping support communities, governments and humanitarian responders in their utilization of OpenStreetMap in crisis response and contingency planning. She joined the OpenStreetMap foundation in 2009 and was elected to the OSMF board in September 2013. Kate is employed as a Senior Program Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation.
Other directorships held: Member of the Board of Directors, Software Freedom Conservancy
* [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Wonderchook User:Wonderchook on the wiki]
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'''Frederik Ramm''' is a long-time OSM contributor and coder of editors and utilities, co-author of the first ever OpenStreetMap book, founder and acting director of Geofabrik, and an active participiant on most OSM mailing lists and help forums. He was voted onto the board at the 2012 AGM. He lives in Karlsruhe, Germany.
* [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Frederik_Ramm User:Frederik_Ramm on the wiki]
Other directorships held: Managing Director, Geofabrik GmbH; Member of the Board of Directors, FOSSGIS e.V.
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* [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Mikel User:Mikel on the wiki]
----'''Heather Leson''' is an idea hacker, community builder focused co-creating open organizations. As a technologist, she strengthens community collaboration via humanitarian technologies and social entrepreneurship. She builds partnerships, curates digital spaces, fosters volunteer engagement and delivers training while inspiring systems for co-creation with maps, code and data. She has been an active OSM supporter since 2010, a past-board member of Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (2013-2017), and OSMF member since 2013. She co-wrote a chapter on Open Communities as part of the Open Organization Workbook as well as articles the power of open data and digital literacy for the World Economic Forum and Civicus Datashift. Heather is from Canada and currently lives in Switzerland.
* [https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:HeatherLeson user: HeatherLeson on the wiki]
----'''Tobias Knerr ''' fell in love with OpenStreetMap in 2008, and has been contributing as a mapper and software developer ever since. He's a long-time advocate for free software and open content, and has been promoting OSM through mapping parties, as a speaker and organizer for conferences, and at industry events. Tobias has joined the board in 2018, and is currently employed as a research assistant at the University of Passau, Germany.
* [https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Joost_schouppe user: Joost_schouppe on the wiki]
----'''Guillaume Rischard ''' <br>
''bio pending''
----'''Allan Mustard ''' <br>
''bio pending''
----'''Rory McCann ''' <br>
''bio pending''
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All board members are "directors" in the sense of the UK Companies Act. Even the person we designate "secretary" is not a "secretary" in the sense of the UK Companies Act.
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