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