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The OpenStreetMap Foundation is a [[membership organization]]. Membership in the foundation is separate from a user account on the OpenStreetMap website: a user account is required to contribute to the map, while foundation membership entitles one to vote at a general meeting.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Corporate Editors in the Evolving Landscape of OpenStreetMap|first1=Jennings|last1=Anderson|first2=Dipto|last2=Sarkar|first3=Leysia|last3=Palen|journal=[[ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information]]|publisher=International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing|volume=8|issue=5|date=May 18, 2019|page=232|doi=10.3390/ijgi8050232|bibcode=2019IJGI....8..232A|doi-access=free}}</ref>
The foundation is run by a board of seven members, including the foundation's officers: chairman, secretary and treasurer.<ref name=board /> The board is elected by the foundation's dues-paying members. {{Asof|
Several working groups, composed mostly of volunteers, carry out day-to-day operations on behalf of the foundation:<ref name="Spreng">{{cite conference|title=Past and Future of the OpenStreetMap Foundation's Membership Working Group|first=Michael|last=Spreng|conference=[[State of the Map]]|___location=Heidelberg|date=September 21, 2019|url=https://pretalx.com/media/sotm2019/submissions/FAGNLA/resources/Spreng_Rischard_past_and_future.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Crowdsourced Geospatial Data|first1=Matthew T.|last1=Rice|first2=Fabiana I.|last2=Paez|first3=Aaron P.|last3=Mulhollen|first4=Brandon M.|last4=Shore|first5=Douglas R.|last5=Caldwell|publisher=[[Army Geospatial Center|United States Army Topographic Engineering Center]]|___location=Alexandria, Virginia|date=November 2012|pages=104–105|accessdate=February 13, 2021|url=https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a576607.pdf#page=115|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200711171304/https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a576607.pdf#page=115|url-status=live|archive-date=July 11, 2020|format=PDF}}</ref>
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In addition to day-to-day operations within the OpenStreetMap project, the foundation and its working groups run several initiatives to promote the project's growth. Its annual [[State of the Map]] conference is the flagship conference within the OpenStreetMap community. The GPStogo program lends [[Satellite navigation device|GPS receiver]]s to mappers in developing countries.<ref>{{cite book|title=OpenStreetMap|first=Jonathan|last=Bennett|publisher=Packt|___location=Birmingham|date=September 2010|isbn=9781847197511|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SZfqRcPXApoC&pg=PT42|via=Google Books}}</ref>
== Notable people ==
* [[Allan Mustard]]{{snd}} former board member;<ref>{{cite web|title=Officers & Board|publisher=OpenStreetMap Foundation|date=July 6, 2021|accessdate=July 9, 2021|url=https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/8513}}</ref> retired U.S. ambassador
== See also ==
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