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== Governance ==
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|work=[[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}}</ref>
The foundation is run by a board of seven members, including the foundation's officers: chairman, secretary and treasurer.<ref name=board /> {{Asof|2020|12}}, the board consists of [[Allan Mustard]] (Chairperson), Rory McCann (Secretary), Guillaume Rischard (Treasurer), Tobias Knerr, Jean-Marc Liotier, Mikel Maron, and Eugene Alvin Villar.<ref>{{cite web|title=Officers & Board|url=https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Officers_%26_Board}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board_Member_Bios|title=Board Member Bios|publisher=OpenStreetMap Foundation}}</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|2020|12}}, the board consists of [[Allan Mustard]] (Chairperson), Rory McCann (Secretary), Guillaume Rischard (Treasurer), Tobias Knerr, Jean-Marc Liotier, Mikel Maron, and Eugene Alvin Villar.<ref>{{cite web|title=Officers & Board|url=https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Officers_%26_Board}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board_Member_Bios|title=Board Member Bios|publisher=OpenStreetMap Foundation}}</ref>
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|format=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|format=PDF}}</ref>
* Data Working Group{{snd}} countervandalism and dispute resolution<ref>{{cite journal|first=Andrea|last=Ballatore|title=Defacing the map: Cartographic vandalism in the digital commons|work=[[The Cartographic Journal]]|publisher=Taylor & Francis|date=2014|volume=51|number=3|page=16|arxiv=1404.3341|doi=10.1179/1743277414y.0000000085|s2cid=1828882}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Towards Automatic Vandalism Detection in OpenStreetMap|first1=Pascal|last1=Neis|first2=Marcus|last2=Goetz|first3=Alexander|last3=Zipf|work=
* Communication Working Group
* Engineering Working Group
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* Operations Working Group
* [[State of the Map]] Organizing Committee
== Programs and initiatives ==
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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>
== Funding ==
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