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We have a small team of [[Officers & Board|board members]] of the foundation. Here is a bit about each of them, including declarations of any other directorships and any substantial shareholdings.
* Board members are volunteers and are usually<sup>1</sup> not getting paid by the OSM Foundation for the work they do.
* All board members are "directors" in the sense of the [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/contents UK Companies Act]. Even the person we designate "secretary" is not a "secretary" in the sense of the UK Companies Act.▼
* See the [[osm:OSMF_board_members_by_year|OSM Foundation board members by year]] on the OSM wiki.
==Current Board==
===Tobias Knerr===▼
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:Tordanik user: Tordanik on the wiki]▼
===Mikel Maron===▼
Mikel Maron is a programmer and geographer working for impactful community and humanitarian uses of open source and open data. He started with OSM in 2005. He was elected to the OSMF Board in 2015, and previously served from 2007-2012. He currently works at Mapbox, leading the Community team. He is co-founder of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, of GroundTruth Initiative, and of the Map Kibera project. He’s travelled widely, organizing mapping projects in India, Palestine, Egypt, Swaziland, and elsewhere.▼
* [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Mikel User:Mikel on the wiki]▼
===Amanda McCann===
''(documents before mid-2021 use Amanda's old name which started with “R”)''
* [https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/%E1%9A%9B%E1%9A%90%E1%9A%8B%E1%9A%90%E1%9A%85%E1%9A%87%E1%9A%90%E1%9A%9C%20%F0%9F%8F%B3%EF%B8%8F%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%8C%88 OpenStreetMap.org account] • [
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Eugene Alvin Villar is from the Philippines and has been mapping in OSM as [https://osm.org/user/seav/ seav] since 2007. Eugene has grown up loving maps and cartography (one of his favorite childhood books was a Grolier world atlas) and when he [https://www.vaes9.com/posts/osm_does_the_philippines learned that OSM was a crowdsourced project to map the ''whole'' world], he was immediately hooked. Aside from mapping, Eugene has also worked to collaborate with other Filipinos in building the local mapping community in the Philippines (which is one of the most active in Asia) by planning events, giving presentations, facilitating workshops, and organizing local conferences. He has been a member of the Foundation since 2016 and a member of the [[Local Chapters and Communities Working Group]] (LCCWG) which he chaired from 2019 until his election in 2020.▼
Eugene currently works as a senior software engineer for a [https://getmagic.com/ Silicon Valley-based startup] and before he got elected worked part-time doing OSM mapping for Kaart, a Bronze [[Corporate Members|Corporate Member]] of the Foundation. In his free time outside of OpenStreetMap, Eugene is also a [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Seav very active contributor] the the Wikimedia projects such as the English Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons.▼
===Guillaume Rischard===
He is a member of the Data Working Group and Membership Working Group, and occasionally contributes to the OSM Weekly.
* [[osm:User:Stereo|User: Stereo on the wiki]]
▲Eugene Alvin Villar is from the Philippines and has been mapping in OSM as [https://osm.org/user/seav/ seav] since 2007. Eugene has grown up loving maps and cartography (one of his favorite childhood books was a Grolier world atlas) and when he [https://www.vaes9.com/posts/osm_does_the_philippines learned that OSM was a crowdsourced project to map the ''whole'' world], he was immediately hooked. Aside from mapping, Eugene has also worked to collaborate with other Filipinos in building the local mapping community in the Philippines (which is one of the most active in Asia) by planning events, giving presentations, facilitating workshops, and organizing local conferences. He has been a member of the Foundation since 2016 and a member of the [[Local Chapters and Communities Working Group]] (LCCWG) which he chaired from 2019 until his election in 2020.
▲Eugene currently works as a senior software engineer for a [https://getmagic.com/ Silicon Valley-based startup] and before he got elected worked part-time doing OSM mapping for Kaart, a Bronze [[Corporate Members|Corporate Member]] of the Foundation. In his free time outside of OpenStreetMap, Eugene is also a [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Seav very active contributor] the the Wikimedia projects such as the English Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons.
▲* [https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:seav user: seav on the wiki]
===Jean-Marc Liotier===
Jean-Marc is currently on a full-time salaried position at SFR, a subsidiary of Altice Europe, where he is an employee representative, member of the UNSa COM union. His ownership of bicycles has also led to rumors that he might be a card-carrying member of the cycling lobby.
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▲===Mikel Maron===
▲Mikel Maron is a programmer and geographer working for impactful community and humanitarian uses of open source and open data. He started with OSM in 2005. He was elected to the OSMF Board in 2015, and previously served from 2007-2012. He currently works at Mapbox, leading the Community team. He is co-founder of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, of GroundTruth Initiative, and of the Map Kibera project. He’s travelled widely, organizing mapping projects in India, Palestine, Egypt, Swaziland, and elsewhere.
=== Roland Olbricht ===
''Placeholder.''
* [[osm:User:Roland.olbricht|User: Roland.olbricht on the OSM wiki]]
▲===Tobias Knerr===
▲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.
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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.
<sup>1</sup> ''Exception: [[Board/Minutes/2021-05#2021.2FRes19_To_authorize_payment_of_100_Euros_per_hour_to_the_Treasurer|2021/resolution 19]], tied to the task of resolving the blockage of PayPal and TransferWise accounts at that point.''
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