New Member Nominations 2014

The Charter Member nomination (part of the Election 2014) will be open from 2014-07-19 to 2014-08-01. The list of nominees for the 2014 Charter 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.

To submit a charter member nomination:
 * Please confirm with the nominated person first!
 * Please email cro@osgeo.org with their name, country, contact email and paragraph describing why you are recommending this person as a Charter Member
 * Please also feel free to cc: the nomination to the OSGeo discussion list - discuss@lists.osgeo.org - so the community can be nudged along and have a sense of what is going on.
 * Also, you might want to reference your OSGeo Advocate profile.

The list of nominees will be maintained by the CRO here:

{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellpadding="5" !_______Name_______ !______Country______ !Notes
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 * Santosh Gaikwad
 * India
 * From: Ravi Kumar

''Santosh is with Open Source GIS for more than a decade and he has conducted training sessions in the same. His LinkedIn profile is copy pasted below. WEB-GIS trainings are the most well attended events that he conducts. He is a very active member of OSGeo India.''


 * http://in.linkedin.com/in/gaikwadss


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 * Thijs van Menen
 * Netherlands
 * From: Bart van den Eijnden

''When I first started to work on a large open source geospatial project in The Netherlands in 2002/2003, Thijs was part of the government agency (Rijkswaterstaat) that did the tender for a geospatial infrastructure based on open standards. Our open source proposal got chosen, and we worked many many years on setting up the SDI and maintaining it. The project was called GeoServices, and as with many things, the project was unfortunately a bit ahead of its time.

Thijs is one of the few people at government agencies that truly understands what open source is. He is very passionate about open source software development, and a few years after the inception of the project he led a team of consultants hired by the Ministry to work on the maintenance of the software as well as on applications built on top of it.

He has also been a frequent attendant of FOSS4G, with attendance in Victoria, Cape Town and Denver. Some of the Denver people might remember Thijs by his frequent use of the phrase “Tik hem aan ouwe”. He was also involved in the inception of the Dutch language chapter.

Through this nomination I’d also like to thank Thijs for everything he did for open source geospatial in The Netherlands. His enthusiasm really helped things move forward.''


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 * Stephan Meißl
 * Austria
 * From: Helmut Kudrnovsky

''Stephan(1) is a committer to MapServer(2) and also a member of the MapServer PSC(3). As well known in the OSGeo community, he has organized the wonderfull OSGeo Code Sprint 2014 (4)(5) in Vienna which was great step forward in community building between all the nice OSGeo projects.

So I am convinced that Stephan will be very valuable OSGeo Charter Member.''


 * 1) http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Schpidi
 * 2) https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/blob/master/COMMITERS
 * 3) http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-23.html
 * 4) http://vienna2014.sprint.osgeo.org/
 * 5) http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Vienna_Code_Sprint_2014
 * 6) http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Hellik


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 * Jeffrey Johnson
 * United States
 * From: Bart van den Eijnden

''Jeff is truly passionate about open source geospatial and he brings a lot of skills to the table (deep technical skills, project management, business skills). He is one of the driving forces behind the GeoNode project(1), an open source geospatial content management system based on technologies such as pyCSW and GeoServer. In his professional career he was a Brigade Captain at Code For America and he worked for OpenGeo / Boundless up until recently. Jeff is also very involved in the OSM community.''


 * 1) http://geonode.org


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 * Régis Haubourg
 * France
 * From: Vincent Picavet

''I would like to nominate Régis Haubourg as OSGeo charter member. Régis has been a long supporter of OpenSource, and was among the first in French Public administration not only to support and use FOSS4G, but to actively promote and fund it.

Régis is very active in promoting QGIS and other FOSS4G tools, and maintains a constant and close relationship between users and developers. He funds a lots of QGIS feature development and bugfixing.'''


 * 1) http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Rhaubourg


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 * Johan Van de Wauw
 * Belgium
 * From: Jeff McKenna

''It is my pleasure to nominate Johan Van de Wauw for OSGeo Charter membership.

Active in the Belgium community, Johan has been working hard lately on helping with the OSGeo-Live project. He is also active in the SAGA GIS community. He also helps organize the FOSDEM conference in Europe.

I had the pleasure of meeting Johan in Bremen recently, and I really like his raw enthusiasm and passion for all-things-FOSS4G.''