BITCOIN FOUNDATION ELECTIONS – FEBRUARY

The Bitcoin Foundation is a Bitcoin development organisation that currently focuses on supporting a few core developers and expanding this support to include specialist programmers that work on external viable Bitcoin infrastructure software through grant programs.
The Foundation also attends conferences for the promotion of Bitcoin and was previously involved in global Bitcoin adoption on the regulatory and political front.
This February, there will be new Bitcoin Foundation Elections to elect persons to two Director positions that will be representative of the wider community as individual membership director seats. The polls for this election will be open from February the 13th to February the 19th (2015), nominations for these seats will end on February 6th.
The Bitcoin Foundation defines the roles of a Director as a threefold obligation. (1) Hiring and supporting the leadership team. (2) Reviewing goals and financials to ensure the team is performing in line with the Foundations mission. (3) Leveraging their network (and expanding this) to fundraise and make sure of proper resources to create opportunities for high-level strategic partnerships. For the definitions of a Director position, check here.
These two individual seats are currently held by Jon Matonis, the previous Executive Director of the Foundation and Gavin Andresen (Lead Scientist). The current nominations for the election is as follows;

This post was published at Crypto Coins News on January 9, 2015.