New Member Nominations 2021

The Charter Member nomination (part of the Election 2021) will be open from 2021-11-01 to 2021-11-14 (2 weeks). This list of nominees is maintained by the Chief Returning Officer (cro@osgeo.org). This page is write protected and can only be edited by SysOps.

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#	Nominee Name	Country	Positive attributes	Nominated by
1	Enock Seth Nyamador	Ghana	Enock is an OSGeo Advocate already. He is in the African Local Chapter and is promoting the OSM and the OSGeo organisation and software at many events. He is the Co-Chair of the Marketing Committee and he is in the PSC of the OSGeoLive project.  Enock is a great value for our community. It would be great to welcome him as OSGeo Charter member. Enock Seth Nyamador Enock Seth Nyamador	Astrid Emde
2	Maia Williams	Australia	I would like to nominate Maia Williams. Maia has been a passionate and energetic open geospatial community organiser in Perth for the last couple of years, this year leading the comms team for FOSS4G Perth. She works selflessly as part of a team, shows leadership where it's needed, and truly has the best interests of the community at heart. She volunteers as a mentor to new Australians wishing to establish their GIS careers here. She believes in the OSGeo mission and is a great asset to this community. Maia Williams	John Bryant
3	John Duncan	Australia	I'm pleased to nominate John Duncan. John is an excellent advocate for open source geospatial through his teaching and research work at the University of Western Australia, He's actively involved in open geospatial projects in Tonga and elsewhere in the Pacific, and he presented some of his work at FOSS4G 2021 with a colleague. He has been a big part of the organising team for FOSS4G Perth over the last two years. He's passionate about sharing open source with the community, and would be a great addition to the OSGeo charter membership. John Duncan	John Bryant
4	Amin Mobasheri	Germany	I would like to nominate Amin Mobasheri for OSGeo charter membership. Amin is an experienced researcher with a strong GIS background. His main area of expertise is in data quality assessment and enrichment focusing on open geospatial datasets such as OpenStreetMap. During his PhD studies Amin has contributed to several European and German research projects including CAP4Access (https://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/cap4access_en.html) and IntrinsicOSMQuality (https://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/intrisic_osm_quality.html). He is a true advocate for Open Science and has published his research mainly in Open Access publishing venues. Furthermore, since 2018, he has collaborated in many special issue projects with several existing OSGeo chart members, aiming to support and extend open source GIS research and application in various application domains such as [1], [2], and [3]. He is also collaborating on the most recent version of another special issue collection entitled: "Open Source Geospatial Science, Software and Education" [4]. I believe Amin would make a great OSGeo charter member. [1]: https://opengeospatialdata.springeropen.com/ogsue2 [2]: https://www.springeropen.com/collections/osgs [3]: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tgis.12703 [4]: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/14679671/CfP_Open%20Geospatial%20Science%20Software%20and%20Education-1626741108927.pdf Amin Mobasheri	Maria Antonia Brovelli
5	Peter Rushforth	Canada	Peter is a positive addition to the GeoServer community championing the MapML standard and earning committer status in 2021. We would love to recognize Peter's direct participation in this OSGeo project. Peter Rushforth	Jody Garnett
6	Fernando Mino	Ecuador	Fernando is an enthusiastic participant in the Open Source GIS community. He has been an active contributor to both the GeoTools and GeoServer projects since 2018. In that time, he has helped maintain the MongoDB and AppSchema extensions and implemented a proposal that improved the core GeoTools render performance when dealing with icons, among many other things. In May of this year, Fernando achieved GeoTools core committer status, reflecting his dedication to the project. Fernando Mino	Torben Barsballe
8	Loïc Bartoletti	France	Loïc has been advocating free software and GIS for years, during its multiple and various experiences. He focus on CAD, topography, urbanism with its favorite platform being QGIS. He is a QGIS core committer, contributes to PostGIS ( SFCGAL) ,member of OSGEO SAC, talks at various conferences on FOSS4G, and implemented a bunch of very useful QGIS plugins as well. And last but not least, he is a FreeBSD contributor looking to port the OSGeo stack to BSD systems. Loïc Bartoletti Loïc Bartoletti	Vincent Picavet
9	Ashish Kumar	India	Mr. Ashish Kumar is an active OSGeo Open Source contributor. He contributed to the pgRouting project under OSGeo umbrella as a Student Developer during Google Summer of Code 2020 and 2021. Currently, he is working on the VRPRouting branch of pgRouting and I feel he would be able to motivate and inspire new contributors to join our OSGeo community. I find great pleasure in nominating Ashish to be an OSGeo Charter Member. Ashish Kumar Ashish Kumar	Rajat Shinde
10	Stefan F. Keller	Switzerland	Prof. Dr. Stefan F. Keller is an active member of our community since many years already and joined conferences as speaker and guest many times. He is professor and leader of IFS https://ifs.hsr.ch/index.php?id=5953&L=4 He is active in the german language local chapter FOSSGIS e.V. and hosted the FOSSGIS conference twice in Rapperswil at his institute and also the Swiss PGDay. He runs the Geometa Lab at OST Campus Rapperswil (https://www.ost.ch/de/geometalab). He is an active member of OpenStreetMap and organized many Hackatons. Stefan invented an OSgeo lab at his Campus many years ago. At his Institute he offers courses covering Open Source-Software like PostgreSQL/PostGIS, QGIS & more. The wiki offeres a nice overview on the activities https://giswiki.hsr.ch There would be much more to say about Stefan and his activities. It would be great to welcome him as OSGeo Charter member. Stefan F. Keller	Astrid Emde
13	Adrien André	France	Adrien André is an active member of both the OSM and OSGeo communities. Living in French Guyana, he animates both local communities and advocates there about FOSS4G and Open data. Adrien André	Nicolas Roelandt
14	Nicolas Rochard	France	Nicolas Rochard is a very active person in the FOSS world. He animates the OpenSuse French community and takes an active part of the OSGeo-fr activities. Nicolas Rochard	Nicolas Roelandt