Board Member Nominations 2018

The Board Member nomination (part of the Election 2018) will be open from 2018-10-29 to 2018-11-11 (two weeks). The list of nominees for the 2018 Board Member Election is maintained by the Chief Returning Officer (cro at osgeo.org). This page is write protected and can only be edited by SysOps.

The following nominations have been received for the OSGeo Board in 2018 through the Election 2018 process.


 * The nomination period ends on [23:59 GMT on Sunday 11 November 2018.
 * This list is presented in the order nominations were received.
 * Candidate statements and support by OSGeo participants or members, if they have been provided, are linked to immediately after the candidate name as a bulleted list.

Michael Smith

 * Nomination by Daniel Morissette

I would like to nominate Michael Smith for the OSGeo Board election.

Mike works for the US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS Center of Expertise and has been a long time power user, supporter and contributor of MapServer, GDAL/OGR, PDAL and other OSGeo projects. He is a member of the MapServer and PDAL project PSC's and was actually one of the instigators behind the PDAL project, the GDAL of Point Clouds. He is also a FOSS4G regular and has not missed one since the 2003 MapServer Users Meeting AFAIK.

Mike has been active on the OSGeo Board since 2014 as treasurer. The great job that he does behind the scene as treasurer doesn't get noticed publicly by the members, but it includes several tasks and responsibilities which are instrumental to keeping OSGeo running smoothly.

In addition to his experience within OSGeo projects and its community, he also brings to the board the perspective of government organizations, which is a very important group of users and contributors of OSGeo software.

Plus, the voice of reason that he brings to the day to day operation of the board is also of great value.

All this makes him a perfect candidate to continue serving on the board.


 * 1) https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Michael_Smith

Support


 * http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Fwd-OSGeo-Board-nomination-for-Michael-Smith-td5384287.html
 * Seconded by: Adam Steer, Luigi Pirelli, María Arias de Reyna, Till Adams

Angelos Tzotsos

 * Nomination by Astrid Emde

I would like to nominate Angelos Tzotsos for the OSGeo Board again. He is already in the board since 2016. It is a great pleasure to work with him in the board and also in the OSGeoLive project.

Angelos is well known in the OSGeo community. He is the chair of the OSGeoLive project and a project steering committee member for the pycsw and ZOO-Project. He is a core developer for the GeoNode project and a packager for several projects. He is also an individual OGC member.

Have a look at his OSGeo Advocate page to see several other projects he is involved in:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Angelos_Tzotsos

Angelos is a remote sensing expert with background in surveying engineering and software development. He has a good expertise and knowledge about OSGeo software and technology.

Angelos is very structured, reliable and he gets things done. It is a pleasure to discuss with him and he makes well-considered decisions.

He encourages other people to work with OSGeo and he is very motivating.

It would be great to have him in the board again.

Support


 * http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Fwd-OSGeo-Board-nomination-Angelos-Tzotsos-td5384804.html
 * Seconded by: Luigi Pirelli, María Arias de Reyna, Sandro Santilli, Cameron Shorter, Till Adams

Nicolas Bozon

 * Nomination by Maria Antonia Brovelli

I would like to nominate Nicolas Bozon for the 2018 board elections.

Nicolas is an active OSGeo member from Lyon, France. He is using and promoting OSGeo and FOSS4G since 2006 and has developed a global approach of open source. He is Charter Member since 2011 and Marketing Committee member since 2012.

I had the pleasure to collaborate several times with Nicolas since we have meet each other in 2010. As an example, he was a key person for the FOSS4G-Europe 2015 communication and marketing.

Nicolas co-founded ZOO-Project and is part of its PSC since 2009. He is also the creator of mapskin, the geospatial webfont. He attended many FOSS4G events since 2008, for which he is often helping on organization and marketing.

Nicolas is maintaining an extensive network of users, developers and researchers within OSGeo and beyond, in the broader geospatial community. Active at the chapter, conference and committee levels, Nicolas is strongly committed to open source and has inspiring visions for our foundation.

Given his strong experience, his international profile and excellent communication skills, I believe Nicolas would be a great addition to the OSGeo board of directors.

Support


 * http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Fwd-Nomination-of-Nicolas-Bozon-td5385272.html

Malena Libman

 * Nomination by María Arias de Reyna

Malena is a long time member of the Spanish OSGeo Chapter (on the Geoinquietos Argentina brand), although she has been elected as charter member only this year. She has been working with the FOSS4G Argentina (as chair on the latest edition), and OSM communities in Argentina including GeoChicas. She recently represented the Argentina Chapter at FOSS4G 2018, and joined the OSGeo Marketing Committee. She has a Technical Degree on Geographic Information Systems by the University of General Sarmiento and she has worked with the national SDI of Argentina for several years. She has been advocating for open source and open data for years both in her work and in her free time. Malena has inspired me a lot with all her work on the community of GeoInquietos Argentina and I'm sure she will be a great asset for the board. She is a strong woman with a free spirit, just what we need to fight for Open Source in Geospatial.

Support
 * http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Fwd-Nomination-to-Malena-Libman-for-the-Board-td5385358.html