# OSI’s board of directors in 2025: details about the elections

**URL:** <https://discuss.opensource.org/t/osi-s-board-of-directors-in-2025-details-about-the-elections/800>\
**Category:** Elections\
**Created:** [January 22, 2025, 6:39pm UTC](https://discuss.opensource.org/t/osi-s-board-of-directors-in-2025-details-about-the-elections/800 "2025-01-22T18:39:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 10:10pm UTC](https://discuss.opensource.org/t/osi-s-board-of-directors-in-2025-details-about-the-elections/800/10 "2025-03-04T22:10:09Z")

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Thanks, Tracy. Can we get the blog post corrected? [Edit: [looks like](https://opensource.org/blog/osis-board-of-directors-in-2025-details-about-the-elections) it’s been corrected.]

And I guess there will there be another individual election when Catharina’s term expires in October, yes?

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[_Updating to work around platform limitations on repeated replies._]

Proponents of the OSI Reform Platform have generated quite a bit of heat, but where there is heat there can also be light. Bradley’s second point in [his recent post about election irregularities](https://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2025/03/03/osi-board-elections-problems.html) seems valid to me, that misstating the seats in the election materially affects its fairness:

> If we had known there were two Affiliate seats and just one Member seat, Debian (an OSI Affiliate) would have nominated Luke a week early to the Affiliate seat.

Bradley’s two proposed solutions are to:

1. briefly reopen nominations and extend the voting deadline, or
2. end advisory elections in favor of simple self-perpetuation.

I’m willing to continue with the election as currently constituted, but I also want to go on record that I think Bradley has a valid point, and I would be fine with either of his proposed solutions.

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