Foundation/AGM2025/Election to Board/Answers and manifestos
Below are links to the manifestos and the answers of the 2025 OSMF board election candidates to the official questions, set by our election facilitator, Brian Sperlongano. The official questions are based on questions by the community. It was up to the candidates to answer all the official questions or just a few of them. Our suggestion was to answer all of them. The official answers and questions thereof should be what voters use to judge. Proposed community discussion period: 2025-08-16 to 2025-09-06 16:00 UTC, when voting will open.
Board candidates
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| Name | Nationality | Country of residence | OSM Foundation member since (will be confirmed*) | OSMuser links |
| Roland Olbricht | German | Germany | 2012-08-23 (confirmed) |  drolbr (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)
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| Brazil Singh | Bangladeshi | Bangladesh | 2024-04-14 (confirmed) | Brazilsingh (Brazil Singh on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)
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| Daniela Waltersdorfer | Peruvian/Peruana | USA | 2021-10-20 (confirmed) | DW2515 (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)
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| Md Atikuzzaman Limon | Bangladeshi | Bangladesh | 2017-2019, 2024-07-07 (confirmed) | Md Atikuzzaman Limon (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)
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| Community questions for the candidates, upon which the official set of questions will be based -- Official set of questions | ||||
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Manifestos
All board candidates' manifestos
Answers by question
The ordering of candidates' names on answers' pages follows the order of candidate self-nominations. Receipt of answers and manifestos: all before the deadline. Some common acronyms are here.
Q02 Conflict of Interest Management
Q03 Transparency and Accountability
Q08 Map Styles on OpenStreetMap.org
Q09 State of the Map Conferences
Answers by candidate
| Name | Q01 Motivation and Objectives |
Q02 Conflict of Interest Management |
Q03 Transparency and Accountability |
Q04 Teamwork |
Q05 Artificial Intelligence |
Q06 Access to Imagery |
Q07 Software Governance |
Q08 Map Styles on OpenStreetMap.org |
Q09 State of the Map Conferences |
Q10 Intellectual Property |
Q11 OSMF Enthusiasm |
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| Roland Olbricht | Roland (292) |
Roland (100) |
Roland (89) |
Roland (154) |
Roland (216) |
Roland (192) |
Roland (224) |
Roland (27) |
Roland (33) |
Roland (170) |
Roland (160) |
| Brazil Singh | Brazil (186) |
Brazil (20) |
Brazil (104) |
Brazil (87) |
Brazil (173) |
Brazil (93) |
Brazil (52) |
Brazil (59) |
Brazil (107) |
Brazil (58) |
Brazil (164) |
| Daniela Waltersdorfer | Daniela (238) |
Daniela (4) |
Daniela (72) |
Daniela (236) |
Daniela (105) |
Daniela (46) |
Daniela (0) |
Daniela (11) |
Daniela (68) |
Daniela (0) |
Daniela (21) |
| Md Atikuzzaman Limon | Md (107) |
Md (89) |
Md (55) |
Md (84) |
Md (97) |
Md (43) |
Md (96) |
Md (71) |
Md (89) |
Md (18) |
Md (105) |
Community provided information
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2025 OpenStreetMap Foundation's: Board election - Voting information and instructions - Annual General Meeting
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