Below you will find the current list of all qualified candidates for an OSI Individual and Affiliate Member Board seat in the 2021 elections (sorted alphabetically by full name). Each candidate is invited to provide information about themselves, activities related to open source, and why they are interested in serving on the Board. We hope you will review each of our candidates and vote in the upcoming OSI elections.

When reviewing each candidate, it may be helpful for voters to consider the OSI mission, the responsibilities of OSI Board Directors, as well as the OSI by-laws related to Board Directors (specifically, ARTICLE V DIRECTORS).

Candidates for TWO (2) Individual Member Seats:

• Chris Aniszczyk (Joining Board)
• Aeva Black(Run-off Candidate)
• Mario Behling
• Joshua D. Drake
• Justin Flory
• Samson Goddy
• Helen Hou-Sandí
• Dave Lester
• Cathrarina Maracke(Run-off Candidate)
• Sriram Ramkrishna
• Jacob Redding

Candidates for TWO (2) Affiliate Member Seats:

• Stefan Busemann (TYPO3 Association)
• Thierry Carrez (Open Infrastructure Foundation (formerly OpenStack Foundation))
• Robert Carolina (Internet Systems Consortium)
• Hong Phuc Dang (FOSSASIA)
• Wm Salt Hale (Snowdrift.coop)
• Thabang Mashologu (Eclipse Foundation)
• Norbert Preining (TeX Users Group)
• Jomar Silva (SouJava)

Election dates:

• March 5, 2021 (12:00 a.m. PDT): Elections open
• March 16, 2021 (11:59 p.m. PDT): Elections close
• March 19, 2021 (12:00 a.m. PDT): : Run-off elections open (See above the bolded Individual candidates)
• March 24, 2021 (11:59 p.m. PDT): Run-off elections close
• March 31, 2021: New Board Directors seated

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