New Member Nominations 2015

The Charter Member nomination (part of the Election 2015) will be open from 2015-08-17 to 2015-08-30. The list of nominees for the 2015 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
 * Also, you might want to reference your OSGeo Advocate profile.

Note for admins: simple script to scrape this page to generate meaningful lines for the electronic voting system

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

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 * Lene Fischer
 * Denmark
 * From: Anita Graser

''I would like to nominate Lene Fischer for the OSGeo Charter. Lene is very active teaching open source geospatial technologies at the University of Copenhagen and helping users on the QGIS mailing list. She also organized the first international QGIS user conference combined with a QGIS developer meeting in 2015.''


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 * Didier Richard
 * France
 * From: Vincent Picavet

''Didier has been a supporter of OpenSource software for Geomatics for long. He works at IGN and promotes openness and free software internally and externally. He managed the French Geoportal project, which is based on opensource software and has a big PostGIS backend.''


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 * Etienne Delay
 * France
 * From: Vincent Picavet

''Etienne is president of the French OSGeo local chapter. He participated to the organization of the French opensource geospatial events in the last years (with success).''


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 * Julien Michel
 * France
 * From: Even Rouault

''It is my pleasure to nominate Julien Michel, from France, for OSGeo charter membership.

Julien is best known in our community as a many year (9+) contributor to OTB, Orfeo ToolBox (www.orfeo-toolbox.org), an open-source C++ library for remote sensing images processing, which is an incubating OSGeo project. Julien is a member of the OTB Project Steering Committee. He is also the main developer of Ice, a rendering engine for satellite images, based on OTB and OpenGL (https://git.orfeo-toolbox.org/ice.git) He has contribute to S2P (https://github.com/carlodef/s2p), a stereo pipeline which produces elevation models from images taken by high resolution optical satellites, that he has presented at FOSS4G Europe 2015. He's as well an occasional contributor to the OSSIM and ITK projects.

Beyond his development activities, Julien also regularly shares his knowledges, as he has been a workshop and FOSS4G training session organizer : OGRS 2012 (OTB), FOSS4G Europe 2015 (OTB+OSM+QGis), summer school in Brasil (2011, Monteverdi), OTB training course in Mexico (2014, OTB and QGis).''


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 * Pedro Venancio
 * France
 * From: Giovanni Manghi

''Pedro works with Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing for about 10 years, and over the last 5, he uses only FOSS4G. He started with the early versions of gvSIG and QGIS, then GRASS, SAGA, GDAL, R, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, MapGuide OS, MapServer, GeoServer, GeoNetwork, ... Apart from FOSS4G, he is also a user and evangelizer of FOSS in general (Linux, LibreOffice, Gimp, ...).

Over the last years, he has participated in several conferences in Portugal in the field of Civil Protection, where he has presented solutions based on FOSS4G. He also gave some workshops in the same area.

He is co-founder of the Portuguese QGIS User Group and an active member of OSGeo-PT and QGIS-PT mailing lists. He is also an active QGIS tester, bug hunter and reporter. Also collaborates with Portuguese QGIS User Group in the development of QGIS plugins.

Pedro is currently responsible for the Cartography and GIS service of Pinhel Municipality (Portugal), where develops and manages the geographic information solutions (data models, databases, geowebservices, WebGIS, spatial models), using exclusively OSGeo projects. ''


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