<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Congratulations to new Board of Directors. Thank you to all who served as Directors over the years for your service and contributions to the global geospatial community.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Times"><br></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Times">Best wishes</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Times"><br></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Times">Suchith</font></span></p><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 22 Dec 2024, at 11:01, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) via Discuss <discuss@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>2024-12-22<br>see Newsitem https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/board-election-2024-results/<br><br>The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is pleased to announce the results of its Board of Directors elections 2024.<br><br>There were four open seats for the 2024 board in this cycle of the Board of Directors election. The Chief Returning Officers reported that 310 out of 568 Charter members cast their votes for the Board of Directors (54% participation). More information on the election results is available on the dedicated OSGeo wiki page [1].<br><br>We are happy to announce that the following people were elected to the Board of Directors (in alphabetical order):<br><br>- Angelos Tzotsos<br>- Joana Simões<br>- Michael Smith<br>- Tom Kralidis<br><br>Angelos Tzotsos, Michael Smith, and Tom Kralidis were reelected. The President and Executive Positions will be announced in early 2025. Read more about the OSGeo Board of Directors [2].<br><br>Lastly, the OSGeo Board of Directors and Charter members would like to express their gratitude to Ariel Anthieni [3] for his service in the 2022-2024 cycle and the Chief Returning Officers, Iván Sánchez, Vicky Vergara, and Luís de Sousa, for their hard work during the last election cycle.<br><br>About OSGeo<br>-------------------<br>The Open Source Geospatial Foundation [4] is not-for-profit organization to “empower everyone with open source geospatial‘. The software foundation directly supports projects serving as an outreach and advocacy organization providing financial, organizational and legal support for the open source geospatial community.<br><br>OSGeo works with Re:Earth, QFieldCloud, GeoCat, T-Kartor, and other sponsors [5], along with our partners to foster an open approach to software, standards, data, and education.<br>Share this<br><br>[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2024_Results<br>[2] https://www.osgeo.org/about/board/<br>[3] https://www.osgeo.org/member/anthieni/<br>[4] https://osgeo.org<br>[5] https://www.osgeo.org/sponsors/<br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br>Discuss@lists.osgeo.org<br>https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>