# openEHR Foundation Management Board elections Feb 2015

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**Created:** 2015-01-21 10:36 UTC
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**Replies:** 2
**URL:** https://discourse.openehr.org/t/openehr-foundation-management-board-elections-feb-2015/15340

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## Post #1 by @system

Individual members of the openEHR Foundation will elect two members of
the new Management Board in an election to be held throughout February
2015\.

In parallel, our industry partners will elect two representatives from
among their number\.

The openEHR Foundation, which is a not\-for\-profit Company registered
in London, will thereafter, for the first time, operate as a trading
entity, in line with the new governance arrangements that have been
agreed\.

The individual membership currently comprises citizens of some 20
countries: Argentina,  Australia, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Ireland,
Japan, South Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama,
Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Uruguay, UK, USA\.

We know that there have long been active list participants, and
observers of the lists, in some 80 countries\. We wish to extend a warm
invitation to all of you who may be considering joining, to do so now,
ahead of the election\.

The procedure for joining as an individual or Industry partner member
is set out at
http://members.openehr.org/join-us.

Further details of membership arrangements can be found at
http://openehr.org/about/membership

If you have already joined, please encourage colleagues to join, as
well\. If you are from a country other than one listed above, please
sign up as the first individual member from that country\!

Sam Heard, Chairperson of the Interim Board

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## Post #2 by @Fosse_Einar

As to being able to participate in the election Feb 2015, Is there any deadline for becoming a openEHR Foundation Member? Will individuals who become members during the voting period also be able to vote?

Einar

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## Post #3 by @system

Hi Einar,

The intention is to allow Members who join before the Election closing
date to be able to vote\.

In other words the deadline for joining, if you wish to vote, is up to
and including 28th February\.

It is only 15 Euros \- why wait ? ;\-\)

I would really urge people to sign up and vote\. This is a very
significant change in the way that openEHR operates\.

Broad input from the community via a strong voting membership who have
an interest in, or make use of openEHR resources, will give the new
Management Board a powerful mandate to drive things forward in line
with community thinking, including further constitutional change if
that seems helpful\.

Thanks to Industry support we now have a bit of seed funding which, if
accompanied by visibly improved governance, should attract even more
resource, in\-kind or otherwise\.

Ian
Dr Ian McNicoll
mobile \+44 \(0\)775 209 7859
office \+44 \(0\)1536 414994
skype: ianmcnicoll
email: ian@freshehr\.com
twitter: @ianmcnicoll

Director, freshEHR Clinical Informatics
Director, openEHR Foundation
Director, HANDIHealth CIC
Hon\. Senior Research Associate, CHIME, UCL

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