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Board Member Nominations 2022

2022-11-22T22:11:36Z

Jgrocha: Added Ariel Anthieni

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| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/anthieni/ Ariel Anthieni]
| Argentina
| Ariel is an entrepreneur and active communicator of the potential of geospatial technologies as enablers of sustainable development, especially in emerging economies.

Since 2007, starting in the city of Santa Fe (in the interior of Argentina) he participated in the SDI of the province. From this moment on, he was part of the foundation of Geoinquiet@s Argentina, where different activities were carried out to fortify the open source in the country and in the region.

Ariel has been very active organizing and streamlining the geospatial community in Argentina.

He was the chair of FOSS4G Argentina 2016 and has participated in the organization of the following editions: 2017, 2019. He also was part of the organization of SOTM Argentina 2017 and SOTM LATAM 2018. In 2018 he was part of the foundation of the Geolibres Association (https://geolibres.org.ar/ ), which supports the geospatial communities of Argentina (Geolibres Argentina, Openstreetmap Argentina, QGIS Argentina, Geochicas). He started as the treasurer and is currently President of the Association. Ariel was one of the main organizers of the FOSS4G International Buenos Aires 2021 and coordinator of the LOC, the first in Latin America that marked a milestone in the global integration of OsGeo in other regions of the world. He has actively participated with talks at FOSS4G 2018 Bucharest and FOSS4G 2022 Firenze about new technologies with the aim of bringing Open Source technologies closer to Spanish-speakers.He is the manager of the local OSM and QGIS Chapters in Argentina and regional communicator in open source events and applications in cadastre, urban management, Smart City and Digital Twins technology.

As part of his work, he is also a very active advocate for FOSS technologies in the geospatial world.

From 2012 to 2018, he was the coordinator of the metadata group of the SDI of Argentina (IDERA). Ariel is currently a speaker in lectures and workshops about open source tools and technologies in the annual conferences of the nation SDI. In 2021 he founded and became CEO of Kan Territory & IT, one of the companies in the region that implements Open Source technologies in the ECLAC, with integration projects of the geographic statistical framework in 8 Latin American countries or also the migration of the cadastre of Mexico City to open source technologies such as qGIS, postGIS, and postgres. They also participated in the implementation of the SDI in Chile and UNOPENGIS.

Ariel would be an important addition to the Board, bringing the bridge closer, even closer, between the Latin American communities and the rest of the world. He advocates to have documentation in Spanish and generating spaces for technologies that allow insertion in Latin America. He wants to change the paradigm that the only thing that exists is the option of proprietary software for some solutions, towards the insertion of open source as an option offered by communities and companies, as already happens in the rest of the world.

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/maria-arias-de-reyna/ María Arias de Reyna]

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[[Category:Election 2022]]

New Member Nominations 2022

2022-10-26T11:26:26Z

Jgrocha:

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 either CRO'''

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| Bianca Federici
| Italy
|
"Bianca is an active member of the Italian community. She is a professor at the University of Genoa software teaching and researching using free GIS for a long time. She has been part of the organisation of several national organisations since 2007 and was co-chair of the FOSS4G 2022"
* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/bianca-federici/ Bianca Federici]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/luca-delucchi/ Luca Delucchi]

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| Seabilwe Tilodi
| South Africa
| "Seabilwe is a GIS specialist with a background in geology and agroclimatology working at Kartoza. She is passionate about the application of open-source software and open data to solve complex problems. She does awesome work training on open-source software such as QGIS, in particular for high school students and teachers. She is one of the organizers of the QGIS Open Day virtual event series where she takes care of the social media outreach. Many of you will remember her from FOSS4G 2022 where she presented a lightning talk on ""Classroom GIS in South Africa"". Her numerous contributions to the QGIS contributor meeting in the lead up to FOSS4G were extremely valuable."
* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/tilodi/ Seabilwe Tilodi]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/anita-graser/ Anita Graser]

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| Tomas Holderness
| United Kingdom
|"Tomas is an active member of the open geospatial community and has spoken at every FOSS4G global event since 2016 and FOSS4G UK in 2019. Tomas
is a recognised leader in serverless computing for geospatial and has
spoken and blogged extensively on the subject at FOSS4G and Geomob
events as well as on podcasts. Tomas is the CTO of Addresscloud a
business providing services to the insurance industry based on open
source geospatial technology, sponsors of FOSS4G UK 2019, OSGeo in 2021
and FOSS4G Firenze in 2022."
* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/holderness/ Tomas Holderness]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/varley/ Mark Varley]

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| Besfort Guri
| Kosovo
|
"It is my pleasur to nominate Besfort Guri as OSGeo Charter Member.
Besfort is active in OSGeo since some years now. Besfort Guri is heavily
involved in FLOSSK which is the local OSGeo Chapter for Kosovo since
2020 (https://www.osgeo.org/local-chapters/osgeo-kosovo/) Besfort is a
member of FLOSSK since 2009 as well as the President of the Executive
Board at FLOSSK. Besfort leads OSGeo and OSM local chapters in Kosovo.
Besfort was part of the organizing team of different conferences. He is
in the FOSS4G 2022 organizing committee that will invite the community
to Prizren, Kosovo. He runs a small company focused on Geographical
Information System and Web Development.
"
* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/guri/ Besfort Guri]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ Astrid Emde]

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| Markus Mayr
| Austria
|
"Markus is a long time and very active member of the OpenStreetMap community organizing the OSM meetup (Stammtisch) in Vienna as chair of the OSM Austria LocalChapter. The OSM meetup is also the place for the Viennese FOSSGIS members, the German local chapter of OSGeo, to meet. Markus is organizing the presentation of OSGeo related projects at mainly Austrian GIS-specific events like the GI_Salzburg (formerly AGIT)."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/mayr/ Markus Mayr]
* Wiki: [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Scubbx Markus Mayr]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/stephan-meissl/ Stephan Meißl]

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| Darafei Praliaskouski
| Belarus
|
"Darafei is a long time PostGIS and OpenStreetMap contributor. He is also a member of the PostGIS project steering committee.

He is an active speaker in FOSS4G conferences and code sprints, OSM conferences, and PostgreSQL conferences.

In addition to being an invaluable member of the PostGIS development
team, he also reports bugs and tries to help out with pgRouting, GEOS,
and GDAL projects.

He has encouraged several of his staff to get involved in open source, in particular with PostGIS, PostgreSQL, and GEOS."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/praliaskouski/ Darafei Praliaskouski]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/regina-obe/ Regina Obe]

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| 7
| Daniel Baston
| United States
|

From [https://www.osgeo.org/member/hamlin/ Brian M Hamlin]

"Dan Baston has been porting Java Topology Suite functionality to libGEOS (C++) since 2016, and was promoted to libGEOS PSC in October 2019. Dan is a PostGIS committer since 2015. In data science, the R language is as active today as it has ever been. In addition to rigorous spatial mathematics engineering with libGEOS and PostGIS, Dan bridges the OSGeo world to R as a substantial committer to GEOS client-library R-sf. It is notable that r-spatial is joining forces with OSGeo at this time, and Dan's contributions directly bring these technical communities together. It is my honor to nominate Daniel Baston as OSGeo Charter Member in 2022."

From [https://www.osgeo.org/member/regina-obe/ Regina Obe]

"Dan Baston is a long time contributor to both GEOS and PostGIS projects and one of the core maintainers of GEOS and a member of the GEOS Project steering committee. He has also made several contributions to the GDAL project and supports development in R.

Dan is a thoughtful contributor, both in how he handles users providing their first pull requests and his willingness to help users with bugs or build issues even if it is not an OS platform he is familiar with.

In addition to his general contributions you will often find Dan at OSGeo code sprints and on occasion FOSS4G events."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/baston/ Daniel Baston]

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[https://www.osgeo.org/member/hamlin/ Brian M Hamlin]
[https://www.osgeo.org/member/regina-obe/ Regina Obe]

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| Lars Schylberg
| Sweden
|
From [https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ Astrid Emde]

"I would like to nominate Lars Schylberg as OSGeo Charter Member.

Lars is active in OSGeo since many years. He is active on both MapServer
mailing lists and a real power user. Lars is a familiar face and speaker
at conferences like FOSS4G. Lars Schylberg is a senior technical fellow
at Saab corporation. He has a MSc in Land Surveying and a PhD in digital
cartography from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden.
Throughout his carrier he has been involved with software development
and international standardization."

From [https://www.osgeo.org/member/girvin/ Seth Girvin]

"Lars has been a long-standing member of the OSGeo community, and has
been present at numerous conferences and codesprints. His MapServer
talks at FOSS4G are always greatly received, and bridge the gap between
technology and cartography."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/schylberg/ Lars Schylberg]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ Astrid Emde]
[https://www.osgeo.org/member/girvin/ Seth Girvin]

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| Hans van der Kwast
| Netherlands
|
"Hans is really active in spreading the OSGeo love. As a teacher, he is
promoting FOSS all the time, and because his teaching is especially
aimed at young people from the global south, his influence is worldwide.
He is a board member and co-founder of the Dutch QGIS User Group, wrote
a book on QGIS for Hydrological Applications with Kurt Menke, and (also
together with Kurt) is working on quality control for the QGIS
certification programme. His pro-active personality (and love of
geobeers), together with his thorough involvement in organizing and
promoting open GIS, makes him the perfect addition to the Charter
Members."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/kwast/ Hans van der Kwast]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/meerburg/ Erik Meerburg]

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| Federica Gaspari
| Italy
|
"Federica studied at Politecnico di Milano, her research interests include GIS, photogrammetry, web-mapping and collaborative mapping. She is active in the OpenStreetMap community, serving as faculty advisor of PoliMappers (the group of Politecnico di Milano connected with YouthMappers).
During the FOSS4G 2022 she was one of the co-chair of the social media committee, she is also member of SotM working group and member of local committee in 2018 and 2022."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/gaspari/ Federica Gaspari]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/luca-delucchi/ Luca Delucchi]

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| Torsten Friebe
| Germany
|
"I would like to nominate Torsten Friebe as OSGeo Charter Member. Torsten
is active in OSGeo since many years. He is in the TMC and the chair of
the deegree project, which is an OSGeo project since 2010. He also
promoted OSGeo software at fairs. He is involved in OGC and worked on
the implementation of OGC standards since 1999. He is a familiar face
and speaker at conferences like FOSS4G and FOSSGIS."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/torsten-friebe/ Torsten Friebe]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ Astrid Emde]

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| Amy Burness
| South Africa
|
"Amy is a scientist, cartographer, and QGIS
enthusiast working at Kartoza as a GIS technician. She is the heart and
soul of the QGIS project's Open Day virtual event series. Every month,
she plans the sessions, coordinates the speakers and hosts this live
stream where she speaks with users and developers from all kinds of
backgrounds and levels of experience. The events are recorded and
available through the [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGS162t4hkOA0b35ucf1yng/featured QGIS Youtube channel].

Many of you will remember her from FOSS4G 2022 where she presented a
lightning talk on ""QGIS and Community: The QGIS Open Day"" and recorded
interviews with many participants. Her numerous contributions to the
QGIS contributor meeting in the lead up to FOSS4G were extremely valuable."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/burness-2/ Amy Burness]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/anita-graser/ Anita Graser]

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| Stefan Blumentrath
| Norway/Germany
|
"I recommend Stefan as an OSGeo Charter Member. He is now contributing for
a long time to the GRASS GIS project, as a coder for the GRASS GIS source code as well as for GRASS GIS
addons. As a community member, Stefan has always a helping hand in the mailing list."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/blumentrath/ Stefan Blumentrath]
* Wiki: [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:SBL Stefan Blumentrath]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/kudrnovsky/ Helmut Kudrnovsky]

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| Krishna Lodha
| India
|
"It is my pleasure to nominate Krisha Lodha. Krishna is an active
contributor to FOSS GIS projects such as pygeoapi, geostyler, as well as
the Doing Geospatial with Python workshop. He also is also an active
content creator of blogs/videos outlining the FOSS stack (see [https://youtube.com/c/krishnalodha her youtube channel]).
Krishna is driven in providing outreach and awareness to the FOSS4G
community, and is personable, a pleasure to collaborate with and a team
player."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/lodha Krishna Lodha]
* Wiki: [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Krishnaglodha Krishna Lodha]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/tom-kralidis/ Tom Kralidis]

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| Hannes Reuter
| Luxembourg
|
"Hannes Reuter is an open source geospatial user and ambassador. Since
2013 he works at the European Commission in the team of GISCO (the
Geographic Information System of the COmmission), where he always pushes
for the adoption of open source geospatial solutions to bridge
technical feasibility and functional
requirements. Hannes is a regular participant and speaker at
international FOSS4G conferences and he was among the organisers of the
European Track titled ''A European approach to geospatial open source'' at
the recent FOSS4G 2022 in Florence."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/hannes-isaak/ Hannes Reuter]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/minghini/ Marco Minghini]

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| Johannes Kröger
| Germany
|
"It is my pleasure to nominate Johannes Kröger as OSGeo Charter Member.
Johannes is active in the Open Source geospatial World since many years.
He is active in the QGIS project writing plugins, submitting bug
reports, fixing bugs and also teaching QGIS at FOSS Academy. He is also
a regular fellow in GDAL's IRC chat channel, answering questions and
presenting or teaching about GDAL on conferences. He is a familiar face
and speaker at conferences like FOSS4G and FOSSGIS. As part of his
activities in the German society for cartography (Deutsche Gesellschaft
für Kartografie e. V.) he organizes the annual
News-Infographies-Analytics-Maps symposium and co-organizes the
[https://visualisierung.dgfk.net/en/events/cartohack/ monthly CartoHack]."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/kroeger/ Johannes Kröger]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ Astrid Emde]

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| Simeon Fitch
| United States
|
"Simeon has prior involvement in several OSGeo projects. He is the architect of RasterFrames, a committer on GeoTrellis, contributor to GeoMesa, but I know him as the newest developer of the Rust GDAL bindings. In each of our interactions there, he was thoughtful and patient. I think these are great qualities for an OSGeo charter member and am happy to nominate him for this position."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/fitch/ Simeon Fitch]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/nicola/ Laurențiu Nicola]

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| Francesco Frassinelli
| Norway
|
"It is my pleasure to nominate Francesco Frassinelli as an OSGeo Charter
Member. Francesco is an experienced open source software developer,
currently working at the
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research as
coordinator for environmental data. He has contributed to several open
source geospatial projects, including GeoNode and Geopaparazzi as well
as open source projects related to OpenStreetMap such as the Tasking
Manager. His experience and passion makes him an excellent candidate for
Charter membership."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/frassinelli/ Francesco Frassinelli]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/minghini/ Marco Minghini]

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| Wladimir Szczerban Llatas
| Spain/Venezuela
|
"Wladimir has been involved with the geographic FLOSS
since 2005.He is an active member of OSGeo and is involved in the
OSGeo-es chapter and the OSM-es community. He was part of the local
organization team of the 2010 FOSS4G in Barcelona."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/szczerban/ Wladimir Szczerban Llatas]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/maria-arias-de-reyna/ María Arias de Reyna Domínguez]

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| Paul van Genuchten
| Netherlands
|
"It is my pleasure to nominate Paul van Genuchten. Paul is
an SDI specialist at ISRIC - World Soil Information. His work
focuses on enabling soil datasets on the web using common standards and
open source software. Paul also provides training on open source
software and INSPIRE.
He is a member of the PSC of pygeoapi and GeoNetwork opensource
projects, and contributes to many
other projects. Paul has a spark for innovation combined with user
driven requirements, and is a great team player on numerous efforts in
the OSGeo community."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/paul Paul van Genuchten]
* Wiki: [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Genuchten Paul van Genuchten]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/tom-kralidis/ Tom Kralidis]

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| Jordi Escriu
| Spain
|
"I am pleased to nominate Jordi Escriu as an OSGeo Charter Member. Jordi
has a longstanding experience in designing and operating Spatial Data
Infrastructures (SDIs) leveraging on open standards and open source
software. He has been the Head of Unit of the regional SDI in Catalonia
and has collaborated since 2008 in the activities around the
conceptualisation of the European INSPIRE infrastructure, contributing
to Technical Guidelines, acting as thematic expert and liaising with
several communities around SDIs. Since 2021 he works at the Joint
Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, where he contributes
his experience to help manage and operate the INSPIRE infrastructure. He
is currently leading the transition of the INSPIRE Geoportal to a
GeoNetwork-based open source component."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/escriu/ Jordi Escriu]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/minghini/ Marco Minghini]

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| Raymond Nijssen
| Netherlands
|
"Raymond
is one of the more active members in the QGIS community,
internationally and especially locally in the Netherlands. A committer
for QGIS, a sponsor for every other piece of FOSS. He is a board member
and co-founder of the Dutch QGIS User Group, trainer and problem solver
(plugins!) for many in the Netherlands, can always be counted on in
helping out with the organisation of the FOSS4GNL, and is main organiser
for the QGIS Hackfest in March 2020, which fell victim to Corona. But
hey, that’s all in the past. He will be organiser of the upcoming QGIS
Hackfest again, and we expect him to keep up the good OSGeo work in the
years to come. I’m very happy to nominate him as a new OSGeo charter
member."

* Profile: [http://www.osgeo.org/member/nijssen/ Raymond Nijssen]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/meerburg/ Erik Meerburg]

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| Lorenzo Stucchi
| Italy
|
"Lorenzo is PhD candidate at Politecnico di
Milano in collaboration with Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico – RSE
S.p.A. His research activity is focused on Geographic Information
Systems and Remote Sensing for the renewable energy sector. He is
involved in Italian OpenStreetMap Community as National Coordinator
for OSM activities in Wikimedia Italia (Italian OSM Local chapter) and
one of the co-founders of PoliMapper (the YouthMappers group of
Politecnico). He was really involved in the FOSS4G 2022 organization
helping in several aspec"

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/stucchi/ Lorenzo Stucchi]
* Wiki: [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:LorenzoStucchi Lorenzo Stucchi]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/luca-delucchi/ Luca Delucchi]

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| Nestor Gustavo Lopez
| Argentina
|
"Gustavo
is an active member of the Argentinian Geo community, working for
government institutions as GIS Technician in Geo related topics for
almost 12 years, supporter of free open source software, member of
Geoinquietos community, Committee member and treasurer of Geolibres
Asociacion Civil, IDERA’s (Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales de la
República Argentina) Metadata Work group Coordinator, Qgis, Geoserver
and Geonetwork User, Responsable of Geo Metadata in ARBA, FOSS4G 2021
Buenos Aires Collaborator."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/lopez/ Nestor Gustavo Lopez]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/anthieni/ Ariel Anthieni]

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| Melvin Lizano Araya
| Costa Rica
|
"Melvin
has supported the use of free and open source software for many years,
teaching courses in Geography, as well as professional updating
workshops for Ministries or Public Institutions. He has also organized
many activities disseminating free geographic
information technologies."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/melvs/ Melvin Lizano Araya]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/acosta-y-lara/ Sergio Acosta y Lara]

|- valign="top"
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| Walter Shilman
| Argentina
|
"Walter is a member of the Argentinian community Geoinquiet@s. He is
currently working in a company of Open Source (mainly gis-based) in
Latin American. Soon to be informatical engineer. With a few
contributions for open source projects, hope to be increasing, for
example Geonode, Geonetwork, Kobotoolbox."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/shilman/ Walter Shilman]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/castellaro/ Horacio Castellaro]

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| Tatiana Pará Monteiro de Freitas
| Brazil
|
"Tatiana is the leader of one of the [https://www.osgeo.org/geo-for-all-labs/labead-conectando-mundos-meninas-da-geotecnologias/ GeoForAll Iberoamerica labs] in
Pará (Amazonas-Brazil). She is an enthusiast of FOSS4G and very active
promoting the use of these technologies in her country and continent."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/para/ Tatiana Pará Monteiro de Freitas]
* Wiki: [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Tatipara Tatiana Pará Monteiro de Freitas]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/acosta-y-lara/ Sergio Acosta y Lara]

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| Ben Hur Pintor
| Philippines
|
"I would like to nominate Ben Hur Pintor. Ben Hur has been a passionate
advocate for open source geospatial and open data for many years. He's
especially active in the Philippines, where he's been a key organiser of
Pista Ng Mapa, the ""Festival of Maps"", bringing together the PH FOSS4G
community in person and online. He shares his knowledge by providing
training and support locally and internationally You can tell he's a
true believer in open source principles by his frequent social media
posts advocating for openness and transparency. I believe he would be a
very positive addition to the OSGeo charter membership."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/ben-hur-pintor/ Ben Hur Pintor]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/bryant/ John Bryant]

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| Marian Neagul
| Romania
|
"It is my pleasure to nominate Marian Neagul. Marian has been a passionate
and energetic contributor to our Romanian and international community
for many years now. Marian used his strong computer science experience
to help the community and several of our important software projects.
It's a regular attendee to FOSS4G events and a participant in geospatial
standardization efforts with Open Geospatial Consortium and the
European Space Agency. I think Marian would be a great addition to the
OSGeo charter membership."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/neagul/ Marian Neagul]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/vasile-craciunescu/ Vasile Crăciunescu]

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| Harissou Sant-Anna
| France
|
"Harissou, known as Delazj a geo-engineer with urban planning specialty.
He is probably the most prolific contributor to QGIS documentation and
translation. He achieves a tremendous work to allow end-user to have a
very high quality documentation for QGIS. He is a founding member of the
QGIS local user group in France and also a honorary member of
QGIS.org. Last but not least, he also developed the Maps Printer QGIS
plugin."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/santanna/ Harissou Sant-Anna]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/vincent/ Vincent Picavet]

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| Harry McCormack
| United Kingdom
|
"Harry has been in the geospatial domain for over a decade. He has been
actively using gdal package to handle satellite data processing,
including
more advanced InSAR technology. Currently, he is leading a team of over
ten developers under the Innovation Team of CGG to develop cutting-edge
geospatial solutions. I firmly believe he would have a lot to share and
learn from this new membership. More about
Harry can be read [https://satelliteblog.cgg.com/getting-to-know-harry/ here]. Thanks a lot."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/mccormack/ Harry McCormack]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/zia/ Mohammed Zia]

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| Mariana Gasparotto
| Argentina
|
"Mariana is a Professor of Spatial Data Infrastructures at
the Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
where she widely spreads the use of Free and Open Source Software for
Geospatial. She was a Member of the Scientific Committee and took part
of the Local Organizing Committee of FOSS4G Buenos Aires 2021. She also
served as a reviewer of scientific works for FOSS4G Firenze 2022"

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/gasparotto/ Mariana Gasparotto]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/anthieni/ Ariel Anthieni]

|- valign="top"
| 33
| Emma Hain
| Italy
|
"Emma has been a long term user of, and advocate for, open source
geospatial tools and communities in Australia. She is a valuable
member of the local QGIS community and has a deep understanding of
industry transformation to open source geospatial software.

I first met Emma at FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2018, and worked with her on
the 2019 FOSS4G SotM Oceania local organising committee. She is full
of ideas, inspiration and passion delivered in a caring and
community-centered way. Emma served on the OSGeo Oceania board for two
years (2020, 2021) and remains a key member of the Oceania open source
geospatial community.

Emma currently works at Nyall Dawson's company, North Road, where part
of her responsibilities is to build the Australian QGIS community
through management of the QGIS AU Twitter and LinkedIn accounts and
associated activities. She is also currently one of the Program Chairs
for the Pacific Geospatial Conference which incorporates FOSS4G SoTM
Oceania."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/hain/ Emma Hain]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/steer/ Adam Steer]

|- valign="top"
| 34
| Claudia Vitolo
| Italy
|
"It is my pleasure to nominate Claudia as an OSGeo Charter Member. She is an
experienced Earth Observation Senior Scientist and a very active and powerful supporter and promoter
of the open source ethic in the geospatial field. Her relentless contributions to the community,
such as the mentoring activities for the Google Summer of Code, Kaggle and ECMWF Summer of Weather
Code, or working for establishing the R-Ladies Global and the WomenInGeospatial+ communities stand
proof of her strong engagement to the same principles and values as OSGeo."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/vitolo/ Claudia Vitolo]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/codrina-maria-ilie/ Ilie Codrina]

|- valign="top"
| 35
| Julien Moura
| France
|
"Julien has been a strong advocating voice for geomatics in general and
opensource in particular. He co-created Geotribu, the leading news blog
for everything geo in France, and is currently one of his most active
maintener and contributor. Julien develops OpenSource GIS software,
especially QGIS Python plugins, be it at work for Oslandia or sometimes
on his free time. He alsocontributes to conferences ( FOSS4G, QGIS days
FR… ). He has an extensive knowledge of the FOSS4G ecosystem and
continues to advocate for more opensource and opendata in this domain."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/geojulien/ Julien Moura]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/vincent/ Vincent Picavet]

|- valign="top"
| 36
| Stefanie Lumnitz
| Italy
|
"It is my pleasure to nominate Stefanie as an OSGeo Charter Member. She is a
spatial data scientist, heavily involved in open source activities, be it coding (she is a core
developer for the Python Spatial Analysis Library), mentoring (Google Summer of Code mentor for
dask-geopandas and PySAL) or community engagement work. Stefanie is a long-standing active supporter
and promoter of the open source/open science principles in the Earth Observation domain and thus I
fully support her to become and OSGeo Charter Member."

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/lumnitz/ Stefanie Lumnitz]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/codrina-maria-ilie/ Ilie Codrina]

|- valign="top"
| 37
| Ivan Ivanov
| Bulgaria
|
"Ivan
is contributing to various open source projects like QGIS and QField.
He is also actively expanding the footprint and impact of open source
geospatial tools through his activities around forming a bulgarian QGIS
user group.""

* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/ivanov/ Ivan Ivanov]

| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/kuhn/ Matthias Kuhn]

|}

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2022]]

New Member Nominations 2021

2021-11-13T18:49:14Z

Jgrocha:

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 ([mailto:cro@osgeo.org cro@osgeo.org]). ''This page is write protected and can only be edited by [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=sysop SysOps]''.

----

{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellpadding="5"
|-
!#
!Nominee Name
!Country
!Positive attributes
!Nominated by

|- valign="top
| 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.''
* [[User:Enockseth|Enock Seth Nyamador]]
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/nyamador Enock Seth Nyamador]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ Astrid Emde ]

|- valign="top
| 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.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/williams-3 Maia Williams]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/bryant/ John Bryant]

|- valign="top
| 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.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/duncan John Duncan]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/bryant/ John Bryant]

|- valign="top
| 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''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/mobasheri Amin Mobasheri]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/maria-brovelli/ Maria Antonia Brovelli]

|- valign="top
| 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.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/rushforth Peter Rushforth]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/jody-garnett/ Jody Garnett]

|- valign="top
| 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.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/mino Fernando Mino]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/torben-barsballe/ Torben Barsballe]

|- valign="top
| 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.''
* [[User:Lbartoletti|Loïc Bartoletti]]
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/bartoletti Loïc Bartoletti]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/vincent/ Vincent Picavet ]

|- valign="top
| 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.''
* [[User:Krashish8|Ashish Kumar]]
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/kumar-2 Ashish Kumar]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/shinde/ Rajat Shinde]

|- valign="top
| 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.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/andre Adrien André]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/bakaniko/ Nicolas Roelandt]

|- valign="top
| 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.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/doctorwho Nicolas Rochard]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/bakaniko/ Nicolas Roelandt]

|}

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2021]]

New Member Nominations 2021

2021-11-12T12:26:09Z

Jgrocha: Fernando Mino update

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 ([mailto:cro@osgeo.org cro@osgeo.org]). ''This page is write protected and can only be edited by [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=sysop SysOps]''.

----

{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellpadding="5"
|-
!#
!Nominee Name
!Country
!Positive attributes
!Nominated by

|- valign="top
| 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.''
* [[User:Enockseth|Enock Seth Nyamador]]
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/nyamador Enock Seth Nyamador]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ Astrid Emde ]

|- valign="top
| 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.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/williams-3 Maia Williams]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/bryant/ John Bryant]

|- valign="top
| 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.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/duncan John Duncan]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/bryant/ John Bryant]

|- valign="top
| 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''
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/maria-brovelli/ Maria Antonia Brovelli]

|- valign="top
| 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.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/rushforth Peter Rushforth]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/jody-garnett/ Jody Garnett]

|- valign="top
| 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.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/mino Fernando Mino]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/torben-barsballe/ Torben Barsballe]

|- valign="top
| 7
| Julien Cabièces
| France
| ''Julien has been in the GIS industry for years. As a senior developer, he is strongly involved in GIS development and especially QGIS core development. He is now a QGIS core committer, and has implemented various features and improvement to the codebase. He regularly talks at conferences ( FOSS4G, OSXP, Journées QGIS).''
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/vincent/ Vincent Picavet ]

|- valign="top
| 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.''
* [[User:Lbartoletti|Loïc Bartoletti]]
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/bartoletti Loïc Bartoletti]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/vincent/ Vincent Picavet ]

|- valign="top
| 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.''
* [[User:Krashish8|Ashish Kumar]]
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/kumar-2 Ashish Kumar]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/shinde/ Rajat Shinde]

|- valign="top
| 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.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/keller Stefan F. Keller]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ Astrid Emde ]

|- valign="top
| 11
| Linda Kladivová
| Czech Republic
| ''Ms. Linda Kladivová is an active OSGeo Open Source contributor. Linda contributed to the GRASS project under the OSGeo umbrella as a Developer during Google Summer of Code 2020 and 2021. She also participated in the FOSS4G 2021 and presented her work in the conference. Being a 2-times GSoCer with OSGeo, I feel she would motivate and inspire new contributors to join our OSGeo community. I find great pleasure in nominating Linda to be an OSGeo Charter Member.''
* [[User:Lindakladivova|Linda Kladivová]]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/shinde/ Rajat Shinde]

|}

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2021]]

New Member Nominations 2021

2021-11-12T10:21:52Z

Jgrocha: Created page with "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..."

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 ([mailto:cro@osgeo.org cro@osgeo.org]). ''This page is write protected and can only be edited by [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=sysop SysOps]''.

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{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellpadding="5"
|-
!#
!Nominee Name
!Country
!Positive attributes
!Nominated by

|- valign="top
| 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.''
* [[User:Enockseth|Enock Seth Nyamador]]
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/nyamador Enock Seth Nyamador]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ Astrid Emde ]

|- valign="top
| 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.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/williams-3 Maia Williams]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/bryant/ John Bryant]

|- valign="top
| 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.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/duncan John Duncan]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/bryant/ John Bryant]

|- valign="top
| 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''
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/maria-brovelli/ Maria Antonia Brovelli]

|- valign="top
| 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.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/rushforth Peter Rushforth]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/jody-garnett/ Jody Garnett]

|- valign="top
| 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.''
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/torben-barsballe/ Torben Barsballe]

|- valign="top
| 7
| Julien Cabièces
| France
| ''Julien has been in the GIS industry for years. As a senior developer, he is strongly involved in GIS development and especially QGIS core development. He is now a QGIS core committer, and has implemented various features and improvement to the codebase. He regularly talks at conferences ( FOSS4G, OSXP, Journées QGIS).''
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/vincent/ Vincent Picavet ]

|- valign="top
| 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.''
* [[User:Lbartoletti|Loïc Bartoletti]]
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/bartoletti Loïc Bartoletti]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/vincent/ Vincent Picavet ]

|- valign="top
| 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.''
* [[User:Krashish8|Ashish Kumar]]
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/kumar-2 Ashish Kumar]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/shinde/ Rajat Shinde]

|- valign="top
| 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.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/keller Stefan F. Keller]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ Astrid Emde ]

|- valign="top
| 11
| Linda Kladivová
| Czech Republic
| ''Ms. Linda Kladivová is an active OSGeo Open Source contributor. Linda contributed to the GRASS project under the OSGeo umbrella as a Developer during Google Summer of Code 2020 and 2021. She also participated in the FOSS4G 2021 and presented her work in the conference. Being a 2-times GSoCer with OSGeo, I feel she would motivate and inspire new contributors to join our OSGeo community. I find great pleasure in nominating Linda to be an OSGeo Charter Member.''
* [[User:Lindakladivova|Linda Kladivová]]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/shinde/ Rajat Shinde]

|}

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2021]]

Chief Returning Officer

2021-10-29T16:09:19Z

Jgrocha: /* CRO */

'''Approved at [[Twenty Sixth Board Meeting]] - page now protected'''
----
The OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (CRO) is responsible for administering votes of the OSGeo charter members, including [[Proposed Board Election Procedure|board elections]] and [[New Membership Process|charter member elections]], or votes to amend the OSGeo corporate bylaws.

* The CRO must be a charter member of OSGeo.
* The CRO is not eligible for election to the board while serving as CRO.
* The CRO is selected by the board.
* The CRO ''may'' be the same person as the Secretary.

The CRO is also responsible for maintaining contact information for OSGeo charter members, ensuring they are notified of charter member and board votes, and for keeping track of who has voted and reporting to the secretary.

== CRO ==
This section lists the names of the OSGeo members who volunteered to be CRO for each year.
* 2021 [[Anne Ghisla]] and [[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]]
* 2020 [[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]] and [[Anne Ghisla]]
* 2019 [[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]] and [[Anne Ghisla]]
* 2018 [[Vasile Craciunescu]], [[Vicky Vergara]], [[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]]
* 2017 [[Vasile Craciunescu]] and [[Jeff McKenna]]
* 2016 [[Vasile Craciunescu]] and [[Jorge Sanz]]
* 2015 [[Vasile Craciunescu]]
* 2014 [[Jorge Sanz]]
* 2013 [[Arnulf Christl]] and [[User:mpg | Michael Gerlek]]
* 2012 [[User:mpg | Michael Gerlek]] and [[Arnulf Christl]]
* 2011 [[Daniel Morissette]]
* 2010
* 2009
* 2008
* 2007
* 2006

[[Category:Membership]]
[[Category: Election 2007]]
[[Category: Elections]]

Chief Returning Officer

2021-10-29T16:01:14Z

Jgrocha: /* CRO */

'''Approved at [[Twenty Sixth Board Meeting]] - page now protected'''
----
The OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (CRO) is responsible for administering votes of the OSGeo charter members, including [[Proposed Board Election Procedure|board elections]] and [[New Membership Process|charter member elections]], or votes to amend the OSGeo corporate bylaws.

* The CRO must be a charter member of OSGeo.
* The CRO is not eligible for election to the board while serving as CRO.
* The CRO is selected by the board.
* The CRO ''may'' be the same person as the Secretary.

The CRO is also responsible for maintaining contact information for OSGeo charter members, ensuring they are notified of charter member and board votes, and for keeping track of who has voted and reporting to the secretary.

== CRO ==
This section lists the names of the OSGeo members who volunteered to be CRO for each year.
* 2020 [[Anne Ghisla]] and [[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]]
* 2020 [[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]] and [[Anne Ghisla]]
* 2019 [[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]] and [[Anne Ghisla]]
* 2018 [[Vasile Craciunescu]], [[Vicky Vergara]], [[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]]
* 2017 [[Vasile Craciunescu]] and [[Jeff McKenna]]
* 2016 [[Vasile Craciunescu]] and [[Jorge Sanz]]
* 2015 [[Vasile Craciunescu]]
* 2014 [[Jorge Sanz]]
* 2013 [[Arnulf Christl]] and [[User:mpg | Michael Gerlek]]
* 2012 [[User:mpg | Michael Gerlek]] and [[Arnulf Christl]]
* 2011 [[Daniel Morissette]]
* 2010
* 2009
* 2008
* 2007
* 2006

[[Category:Membership]]
[[Category: Election 2007]]
[[Category: Elections]]

Election 2021

2021-10-28T08:31:39Z

Jgrocha:

The 2021 [[Charter Members]] election will take place in November 2021, followed by the [[Board]] nominations and elections in November/December.

== Charter Member Election ==

As every year we are electing new Charter Members into the Foundation.

* See the official list of [https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members Charter Members].
* The [[New Member Nominations 2020 | 2020 member nominations]] list provide an example of nominations.

=== Membership process ===

* To be elected, a charter member need a nomination by a current charter member and at least one other charter member seconding the nomination. Only veto can be raised by sending a private e-mail to the CRO that has to inform the board for an anonymous review. If the veto is accepted by the board, then the CRO shall make it public and the charter member is not elected.

For more details see the [[Membership Process]].

=== Nominate new Charter Members: 2021-11-01 to 2021-11-14 (14 days) ===

* Please confirm with the nominated person first!
* Please email [mailto:cro@osgeo.org cro@osgeo.org] ('''not to discuss@osgeo.org''') with their details, using the nomination template below. For the Nomination statement use a '''paragraph describing why you are recommending this person as a Charter Member'''. Please include details about the positive attributes of the nominee:
** Members should believe in the general goals of the OSGeo Foundation: to support and promote the use of free and open source geospatial software, education and data in a collaborative manner.
** Previous participation in or support of OSGeo activities.
** Previous contribution to free and open source geospatial software, education or open data.
** The person should be willing to put in time and effort on the OSGeo Foundation, perhaps joining committee(s), or volunteering in some other way that gets the Foundation going.
** Members should be prepared to work constructively and positively towards the goals of the Foundation. Good teamwork skills are an asset.
* The CRO will contact the nominated person and confirm they are willing to participate and compile the [[New Member Nominations 2021 | 2021 member nominations list]].

==== Nomination template ====

<pre>
Nominating person:
Nominating e-mail:
Nominating profile page:

Nominee name:
Nominee last name:
Nominee e-mail:
Nominee country:
Nominee wiki page (optional):
Nominee profile page:
Nomination statement:
</pre>

=== Community Review and voting: 2021-11-15 - 2021-11-21 (7 days) ===

* Community review of nominations
* [[New Member Nominations 2021]]
* Online vote (to second nominations) using OSGeo [[Electronic Voting]] system based on ''Lime Survey''.

=== Final Status ===

* The CRO has to present candidate list to the board for approval
* The CRO has to update the charter member list

== Board Election ==

* The current Board is composed by 9 people: Astrid Emde, Codrina Maria Ilie, Helena Mitasova, Till Adams, Vicky Vergara, Michele Tobias, Michael Smith, Angelos Tzotsos and Tom Kralidis.
* Following the [[Board Election Procedure]] there are '''5''' seats up for election this year.
* Astrid Emde, Codrina Maria Ilie, Helena Mitasova, Till Adams and Vicky Vergara have reached the end of their 2-year term. Any of these board members wishing to stand in the 2021 election must receive a nomination, like any other candidate.

=== Nominate new Board Members - 2021-11-25 - 2021-12-09 (15 days) ===

* Please '''confirm with the person''' that they would like to stand for election as a Board member.
* Email your nomination, with a paragraph describing why you think this person would make a good Board member, to '''cro@osgeo.org''' by [https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20211209T235959 23:59 GMT on '''Thursday, 9 December 2021''']
* Please use the following template:
<pre>
Nominating person:

Nominee name:
Nomination statement:
</pre>
* Remember that only the [https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/ Charter Members] are eligible for a seat on the Board and voting but that '''anybody''' can nominate a board member.
* The final list will be collected at [[Board Member Nominations 2021]]

=== Campaign period - 2021-12-10 - 2021-12-16 (7 days) ===

Candidates are encouraged to put their vision and ideas for their term at [[Election 2021 Candidate Manifestos]] and sending them to Discuss mailing list for further conversation.

=== Vote for new Board Members - 2021-12-17 - 2021-12-24 (8 days) ===

* Only Charter Members are eligible to vote.
* Choose from [[Board Member Nominations 2021]] list
* Through the [[Electronic Voting]] system, every Charter Member will receive a personal link to access the election.
* You can cast up to '''5''' votes, for '''5''' different people.
* Voting closes by [https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20211224T235959 23:59 GMT on '''Friday, 24 December 2021'''].
* Results will be posted at [[Board Election 2021 Results]] on 2021-12-29.
* Contact [mailto:cro@osgeo.org cro@osgeo.org] with questions.

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2021]]

Election 2021

2021-10-28T08:26:07Z

Jgrocha:

The 2021 [[Charter Members]] election will take place in November 2021, followed by the [[Board]] nominations and elections in November/December.

== Charter Member Election ==

As every year we are electing new Charter Members into the Foundation.

* See the official list of [https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members Charter Members].
* The [[New Member Nominations 2020 | 2020 member nominations]] list provide an example of nominations.

=== Membership process ===

* To be elected, a charter member need a nomination by a current charter member and at least one other charter member seconding the nomination. Only veto can be raised by sending a private e-mail to the CRO that has to inform the board for an anonymous review. If the veto is accepted by the board, then the CRO shall make it public and the charter member is not elected.

For more details see the [[Membership Process]].

=== Nominate new Charter Members: 2021-11-01 to 2021-11-14 (14 days) ===

* Please confirm with the nominated person first!
* Please email [mailto:cro@osgeo.org cro@osgeo.org] ('''not to discuss@osgeo.org''') with their details, using the nomination template below. For the Nomination statement use a '''paragraph describing why you are recommending this person as a Charter Member'''. Please include details about the positive attributes of the nominee:
** Members should believe in the general goals of the OSGeo Foundation: to support and promote the use of free and open source geospatial software, education and data in a collaborative manner.
** Previous participation in or support of OSGeo activities.
** Previous contribution to free and open source geospatial software, education or open data.
** The person should be willing to put in time and effort on the OSGeo Foundation, perhaps joining committee(s), or volunteering in some other way that gets the Foundation going.
** Members should be prepared to work constructively and positively towards the goals of the Foundation. Good teamwork skills are an asset.
* The CRO will contact the nominated person and confirm they are willing to participate and compile the [[New Member Nominations 2021 | 2021 member nominations list]].

==== Nomination template ====

<pre>
Nominating person:
Nominating e-mail:
Nominating profile page:

Nominee name:
Nominee last name:
Nominee e-mail:
Nominee country:
Nominee wiki page (optional):
Nominee profile page:
Nomination statement:
</pre>

=== Community Review and voting: 2021-11-15 - 2021-11-21 (7 days) ===

* Community review of nominations
* [[New Member Nominations 2021]]
* Online vote (to second nominations) using OSGeo [[Electronic Voting]] system based on ''Lime Survey''.

=== Final Status ===

* The CRO has to present candidate list to the board for approval
* The CRO has to update the charter member list

== Board Election ==

* The current Board is composed by 9 people: Astrid Emde, Codrina Maria Ilie, Helena Mitasova, Till Adams, Vicky Vergara, Michele Tobias, Michael Smith, Angelos Tzotsos and Tom Kralidis.
* Following the [[Board Election Procedure]] there are '''5''' seats up for election this year.
* Astrid Emde, Codrina Maria Ilie, Helena Mitasova, Till Adams and Vicky Vergara have reached the end of their 2-year term. Any of these board members wishing to stand in the 2021 election must receive a nomination, like any other candidate.

=== Nominate new Board Members - 2021-11-25 - 2021-12-09 (15 days) ===

* Please '''confirm with the person''' that they would like to stand for election as a Board member.
* Email your nomination, with a paragraph describing why you think this person would make a good Board member, to '''cro@osgeo.org''' by [https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20211209T235959 23:59 GMT on '''Thursday, 9 December 2021''']
* Please use the following template:
<pre>
Nominating person:

Nominee name:
Nomination statement:
</pre>
* Remember that only the [https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/ Charter Members] are eligible for a seat on the Board and voting but that '''anybody''' can nominate a board member.
* The final list will be collected at [[Board Member Nominations 2021]]

=== Campaign period - 2021-12-10 - 2021-12-16 (7 days) ===

Candidates are encouraged to put their vision and ideas for their term at [[Election 2021 Candidate Manifestos]] and sending them to Discuss mailing list for further conversation.

=== Vote for new Board Members - 2021-12-17 - 2021-12-24 (8 days) ===

* Only Charter Members are eligible to vote.
* Choose from [[Board Member Nominations 2021]] list
* Through the [[Electronic Voting]] system, every Charter Member will receive a personal link to access the election.
* You can cast up to '''4''' votes, for '''4''' different people.
* Voting closes by [https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20211224T235959 23:59 GMT on '''Friday, 24 December 2021'''].
* Results will be posted at [[Board Election 2021 Results]] on 2021-12-29.
* Contact [mailto:cro@osgeo.org cro@osgeo.org] with questions.

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2021]]

Board Election 2020 Results

2020-12-14T19:56:34Z

Jgrocha: Election results

=== 2020 Board of directors Election ===

==== Participation ====

{| class="wikitable"
! Charter members
! Invited
! Voted
! % Vote
|-
|Number of members
|482
|306
|63%
|}

==== Results ====

{| class="wikitable"
!Candidate
!Number of votes
!% Vote
!Elected
|-
|Angelos Tzotsos
|240
|78%
| Yes
|-
|Tom Kralidis
|214
|70%
| Yes
|-
|Michele Tobias
|189
|62%
| Yes
|-
|Michael Smith
|171
|56%
| Yes
|-
|Zoltán Siki
|137
|45%
| No
|}

Election 2020

2020-11-24T17:37:49Z

Jgrocha: /* Vote for new Board Members - 2020-12-01 - 2020-12-08 (8 days) */

The 2020 [[Charter Members]] election will take place in October/November 2020, followed by the [[Board]] nominations and elections in November/December.

== Charter Member Election ==

As every year we are electing new Charter Members into the Foundation.

* See the official list of [https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members Charter Members].
* The [[New Member Nominations 2019 | 2019 member nominations]] list provide an example of nominations.

=== Membership process ===

* To be elected, a charter member need a nomination by a current charter member and at least one other charter member seconding the nomination. Only veto can be raised by sending a private e-mail to the CRO that has to inform the board for an anonymous review. If the veto is accepted by the board, then the CRO shall make it public and the charter member is not elected.

For more details see the [[Membership Process]].

=== Nominate new Charter Members: 2020-10-05 to 2020-10-18 (14 days) ===

* Please confirm with the nominated person first!
* Please email [mailto:cro@osgeo.org cro@osgeo.org] ('''not to discuss@osgeo.org''') with their details, using the nomination template below. For the Nomination statement use a '''paragraph describing why you are recommending this person as a Charter Member'''. Please include details about the positive attributes of the nominee:
** Members should believe in the general goals of the OSGeo Foundation: to support and promote the use of free and open source geospatial software, education and data in a collaborative manner.
** Previous participation in or support of OSGeo activities.
** Previous contribution to free and open source geospatial software, education or open data.
** The person should be willing to put in time and effort on the OSGeo Foundation, perhaps joining committee(s), or volunteering in some other way that gets the Foundation going.
** Members should be prepared to work constructively and positively towards the goals of the Foundation. Good teamwork skills are an asset.
* The CRO will contact the nominated person and confirm they are willing to participate and compile the [[New Member Nominations 2020 | 2020 member nominations list]].

==== Nomination template ====

<pre>
Nominating person:
Nominating e-mail:
Nominating profile page:

Nominee name:
Nominee last name:
Nominee e-mail:
Nominee country:
Nominee wiki page (optional):
Nominee profile page:
Nomination statement:
</pre>

=== Community Review and voting: 2020-10-21 - 2020-10-28 (8 days) ===

* Community review of nominations
* [[New Member Nominations 2020]]
* Online vote (to second nominations) using OSGeo [[Electronic Voting]] system based on ''Lime Survey''.

=== Final Status ===

* The CRO has to present candidate list to the board for approval
* The CRO has to update the charter member list

== Board Election ==

* The current board is composed by 9 people: Astrid Emde, Codrina Maria Ilie, Helena Mitasova, Till Adams, Vicky Vergara, Victoria Rautenbach, Michael Smith, Angelos Tzotsos and Tom Kralidis.
* Following the [[Board Election Procedure]] there are '''4''' seats up for election this year.
* Victoria Rautenbach, Michael Smith, Angelos Tzotsos and Tom Kralidis have reached the end of their 2-year term. Any of these board members wishing to stand in the 2020 election must receive a nomination, like any other candidate.

=== Nominate new Board Members - 2020-11-09 - 2020-11-24 (15 days) ===

* Please '''confirm with the person''' that they would like to stand for election as a Board member.
* Email your nomination, with a paragraph describing why you think this person would make a good Board member, to '''cro@osgeo.org''' by [https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20201124T235959 23:59 GMT on '''Tuesday, 24 November 2020''']
* Please use the following template:
<pre>
Nominating person:

Nominee name:
Nomination statement:
</pre>
* Remember that only the [https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/ Charter Members] are eligible for a seat on the Board and voting but that '''anybody''' can nominate a board member.
* The final list will be collected at [[Board Member Nominations 2020]]

=== Campaign period - 2020-11-26 - 2020-12-03 (7 days) ===

Candidates are encouraged to put their vision and ideas for their term at [[Election 2020 Candidate Manifestos]] and sending them to Discuss mailing list for further conversation.

=== Vote for new Board Members - 2020-12-05 - 2020-12-12 (8 days) ===

* Only Charter Members are eligible to vote.
* Choose from [[Board Member Nominations 2020]] list
* Through the [[Electronic Voting]] system, every Charter Member will receive a personal link to access the election.
* You can cast up to '''4''' votes, for '''4''' different people.
* Voting closes by [https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20201212T235959 23:59 GMT on '''Saturday, 12 December 2020'''].
* Results will be posted at [[Board Election 2020 Results]] on 2020-12-15.
* Contact [mailto:cro@osgeo.org cro@osgeo.org] with questions.

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2020]]

Election 2020

2020-11-24T17:35:24Z

Jgrocha: /* Nominate new Board Members - 2020-11-09 - 2020-11-20 (11 days) */

The 2020 [[Charter Members]] election will take place in October/November 2020, followed by the [[Board]] nominations and elections in November/December.

== Charter Member Election ==

As every year we are electing new Charter Members into the Foundation.

* See the official list of [https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members Charter Members].
* The [[New Member Nominations 2019 | 2019 member nominations]] list provide an example of nominations.

=== Membership process ===

* To be elected, a charter member need a nomination by a current charter member and at least one other charter member seconding the nomination. Only veto can be raised by sending a private e-mail to the CRO that has to inform the board for an anonymous review. If the veto is accepted by the board, then the CRO shall make it public and the charter member is not elected.

For more details see the [[Membership Process]].

=== Nominate new Charter Members: 2020-10-05 to 2020-10-18 (14 days) ===

* Please confirm with the nominated person first!
* Please email [mailto:cro@osgeo.org cro@osgeo.org] ('''not to discuss@osgeo.org''') with their details, using the nomination template below. For the Nomination statement use a '''paragraph describing why you are recommending this person as a Charter Member'''. Please include details about the positive attributes of the nominee:
** Members should believe in the general goals of the OSGeo Foundation: to support and promote the use of free and open source geospatial software, education and data in a collaborative manner.
** Previous participation in or support of OSGeo activities.
** Previous contribution to free and open source geospatial software, education or open data.
** The person should be willing to put in time and effort on the OSGeo Foundation, perhaps joining committee(s), or volunteering in some other way that gets the Foundation going.
** Members should be prepared to work constructively and positively towards the goals of the Foundation. Good teamwork skills are an asset.
* The CRO will contact the nominated person and confirm they are willing to participate and compile the [[New Member Nominations 2020 | 2020 member nominations list]].

==== Nomination template ====

<pre>
Nominating person:
Nominating e-mail:
Nominating profile page:

Nominee name:
Nominee last name:
Nominee e-mail:
Nominee country:
Nominee wiki page (optional):
Nominee profile page:
Nomination statement:
</pre>

=== Community Review and voting: 2020-10-21 - 2020-10-28 (8 days) ===

* Community review of nominations
* [[New Member Nominations 2020]]
* Online vote (to second nominations) using OSGeo [[Electronic Voting]] system based on ''Lime Survey''.

=== Final Status ===

* The CRO has to present candidate list to the board for approval
* The CRO has to update the charter member list

== Board Election ==

* The current board is composed by 9 people: Astrid Emde, Codrina Maria Ilie, Helena Mitasova, Till Adams, Vicky Vergara, Victoria Rautenbach, Michael Smith, Angelos Tzotsos and Tom Kralidis.
* Following the [[Board Election Procedure]] there are '''4''' seats up for election this year.
* Victoria Rautenbach, Michael Smith, Angelos Tzotsos and Tom Kralidis have reached the end of their 2-year term. Any of these board members wishing to stand in the 2020 election must receive a nomination, like any other candidate.

=== Nominate new Board Members - 2020-11-09 - 2020-11-24 (15 days) ===

* Please '''confirm with the person''' that they would like to stand for election as a Board member.
* Email your nomination, with a paragraph describing why you think this person would make a good Board member, to '''cro@osgeo.org''' by [https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20201124T235959 23:59 GMT on '''Tuesday, 24 November 2020''']
* Please use the following template:
<pre>
Nominating person:

Nominee name:
Nomination statement:
</pre>
* Remember that only the [https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/ Charter Members] are eligible for a seat on the Board and voting but that '''anybody''' can nominate a board member.
* The final list will be collected at [[Board Member Nominations 2020]]

=== Campaign period - 2020-11-26 - 2020-12-03 (7 days) ===

Candidates are encouraged to put their vision and ideas for their term at [[Election 2020 Candidate Manifestos]] and sending them to Discuss mailing list for further conversation.

=== Vote for new Board Members - 2020-12-01 - 2020-12-08 (8 days) ===

* Only Charter Members are eligible to vote.
* Choose from [[Board Member Nominations 2020]] list
* Through the [[Electronic Voting]] system, every Charter Member will receive a personal link to access the election.
* You can cast up to '''4''' votes, for '''4''' different people.
* Voting closes by [https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20201208T235959 23:59 GMT on '''Tuesday, 8 December 2020'''].
* Results will be posted at [[Board Election 2020 Results]] on 2020-12-09.
* Contact [mailto:cro@osgeo.org cro@osgeo.org] with questions.

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2020]]

Election 2020

2020-11-24T17:33:55Z

Jgrocha: /* Campaign period - 2020-11-22 - 2020-12-29 (7 days) */

The 2020 [[Charter Members]] election will take place in October/November 2020, followed by the [[Board]] nominations and elections in November/December.

== Charter Member Election ==

As every year we are electing new Charter Members into the Foundation.

* See the official list of [https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members Charter Members].
* The [[New Member Nominations 2019 | 2019 member nominations]] list provide an example of nominations.

=== Membership process ===

* To be elected, a charter member need a nomination by a current charter member and at least one other charter member seconding the nomination. Only veto can be raised by sending a private e-mail to the CRO that has to inform the board for an anonymous review. If the veto is accepted by the board, then the CRO shall make it public and the charter member is not elected.

For more details see the [[Membership Process]].

=== Nominate new Charter Members: 2020-10-05 to 2020-10-18 (14 days) ===

* Please confirm with the nominated person first!
* Please email [mailto:cro@osgeo.org cro@osgeo.org] ('''not to discuss@osgeo.org''') with their details, using the nomination template below. For the Nomination statement use a '''paragraph describing why you are recommending this person as a Charter Member'''. Please include details about the positive attributes of the nominee:
** Members should believe in the general goals of the OSGeo Foundation: to support and promote the use of free and open source geospatial software, education and data in a collaborative manner.
** Previous participation in or support of OSGeo activities.
** Previous contribution to free and open source geospatial software, education or open data.
** The person should be willing to put in time and effort on the OSGeo Foundation, perhaps joining committee(s), or volunteering in some other way that gets the Foundation going.
** Members should be prepared to work constructively and positively towards the goals of the Foundation. Good teamwork skills are an asset.
* The CRO will contact the nominated person and confirm they are willing to participate and compile the [[New Member Nominations 2020 | 2020 member nominations list]].

==== Nomination template ====

<pre>
Nominating person:
Nominating e-mail:
Nominating profile page:

Nominee name:
Nominee last name:
Nominee e-mail:
Nominee country:
Nominee wiki page (optional):
Nominee profile page:
Nomination statement:
</pre>

=== Community Review and voting: 2020-10-21 - 2020-10-28 (8 days) ===

* Community review of nominations
* [[New Member Nominations 2020]]
* Online vote (to second nominations) using OSGeo [[Electronic Voting]] system based on ''Lime Survey''.

=== Final Status ===

* The CRO has to present candidate list to the board for approval
* The CRO has to update the charter member list

== Board Election ==

* The current board is composed by 9 people: Astrid Emde, Codrina Maria Ilie, Helena Mitasova, Till Adams, Vicky Vergara, Victoria Rautenbach, Michael Smith, Angelos Tzotsos and Tom Kralidis.
* Following the [[Board Election Procedure]] there are '''4''' seats up for election this year.
* Victoria Rautenbach, Michael Smith, Angelos Tzotsos and Tom Kralidis have reached the end of their 2-year term. Any of these board members wishing to stand in the 2020 election must receive a nomination, like any other candidate.

=== Nominate new Board Members - 2020-11-09 - 2020-11-20 (11 days) ===

* Please '''confirm with the person''' that they would like to stand for election as a Board member.
* Email your nomination, with a paragraph describing why you think this person would make a good Board member, to '''cro@osgeo.org''' by [https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20201120T235959 23:59 GMT on '''Friday, 20 November 2020''']
* Please use the following template:
<pre>
Nominating person:

Nominee name:
Nomination statement:
</pre>
* Remember that only the [https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/ Charter Members] are eligible for a seat on the Board and voting but that '''anybody''' can nominate a board member.
* The final list will be collected at [[Board Member Nominations 2020]]

=== Campaign period - 2020-11-26 - 2020-12-03 (7 days) ===

Candidates are encouraged to put their vision and ideas for their term at [[Election 2020 Candidate Manifestos]] and sending them to Discuss mailing list for further conversation.

=== Vote for new Board Members - 2020-12-01 - 2020-12-08 (8 days) ===

* Only Charter Members are eligible to vote.
* Choose from [[Board Member Nominations 2020]] list
* Through the [[Electronic Voting]] system, every Charter Member will receive a personal link to access the election.
* You can cast up to '''4''' votes, for '''4''' different people.
* Voting closes by [https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20201208T235959 23:59 GMT on '''Tuesday, 8 December 2020'''].
* Results will be posted at [[Board Election 2020 Results]] on 2020-12-09.
* Contact [mailto:cro@osgeo.org cro@osgeo.org] with questions.

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2020]]

Board Member Nominations 2020

2020-11-24T17:28:23Z

Jgrocha: Zoltán Siki

{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellpadding="5"
|-
!#
!Nominee Name
!Country
!Statement
!Nominated by

|- valign="top"
| 1
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/ Angelos Tzotsos]
| Athens, Greece
| 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. Since 2020 Angelos is our OSGeo president and he is very good in his position.

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 [https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/ OSGeo Advocate] page to see several other projects he is involved in.

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.
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ Astrid Emde]

|- valign="top"
| 2
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/michael-smith/ Michael Smith]
| Hanover, USA
| 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.

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.
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/morissette/ Daniel Morissette]

|- valign="top"
| 3
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/tom-kralidis/ Tom Kralidis]
| Toronto, Canada
| Tom has been an OSGeo charter member since 2007 and has served on the Board since 2018. He has contributed to numerous OSGeo software packages, such as MapServer, GeoNode, QGIS, PyWPS and OWSLib, and he is the creator of pycsw and pygeoapi. He is also on several Project Steering Committees (PSCs).

Tom is a longtime member of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), where he has been involved in the development of several specifications. More recently you may have heard him talk about the new OGC API, or even used his latest contribution to our ecosystem: the pygeoapi project, a Python implementation of the OGC API suite of standards which is also an OGC Reference Implementation. Tom is also active in the UN World Meteorological Organization and chairs the WMO Expert Team on Metadata in support of next generation weather/climate/water data sharing efforts.

Tom currently works at the Meteorological Service of Canada where he and his team leverage the power of OSGeo software and OGC standards for mission critical applications.

Given his diverse background and dedication to open source software and open standards, he is a perfect candidate for the OSGeo board.
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/morissette/ Daniel Morissette]

|- valign="top"
| 4
| [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Micheletobias Michele Tobias]
| Davis, USA
| I would like to nominate Michele Tobias for election as a director of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). I knew Michele by reputation as a cartographer, kite aerial photographer, trainer and open source advocate before meeting her in person at FOSS4G 2018 in Dar Es Salaam.

She has been an OSGeo charter member since 2017.

Michele works at the University of California Davis (UC Davis) DataLab providing spatial data science collaboration, support, and training to campus researchers across many academic disciplines. She has a long history of helping people to use OSGeo tools in her professional life, with a clear mission to give people the tools they need to thrive along their journey into geo openness. Her experience with people new to geospatial tools and the open source community brings a valuable 'how do we look to people just starting out' perspective to the organisation.
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/steer/ Adam Steer]

|- valign="top"
| 5
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/siki-zoltan/ Zoltán Siki]
| Budapest, Hungary
| It is my pleasure to nominate Mr. Zoltán Siki from Hungary for the Board.

Since I started my collaboration on OSGeoLive, I've been watching Zoltán's dedication to transmit the Geo-Knowledge into his Hungarian community. Moreover, I personally got the opportunity to meet him in person during the OSGeo Bucharest's Charter member's breath of a feather.

He has been a charter member of OSGeo since 2014, Member of the Department of Geodesy and Surveying. His knowledge on GIS data conversions, surveying calculations, adjustment/regression computation, programming robotic total stations, relational databases, GIS databases make him a full time user of Geo-spacial software and he has volunteered like forever on translations to Hungarian. As an academic person, he has been transmitting the value of Free Open Source to students and colleagues.

I think he can be a valuable person on the Broad and help move forward OSGeo.
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/vicky-vergara/ Vicky Vergara]

|}

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2020]]

Board Member Nominations 2020

2020-11-23T17:22:38Z

Jgrocha: Michele Tobias

{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellpadding="5"
|-
!#
!Nominee Name
!Country
!Statement
!Nominated by

|- valign="top"
| 1
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/ Angelos Tzotsos]
| Athens, Greece
| 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. Since 2020 Angelos is our OSGeo president and he is very good in his position.

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 [https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/ OSGeo Advocate] page to see several other projects he is involved in.

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.
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ Astrid Emde]

|- valign="top"
| 2
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/michael-smith/ Michael Smith]
| Hanover, USA
| 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.

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.
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/morissette/ Daniel Morissette]

|- valign="top"
| 3
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/tom-kralidis/ Tom Kralidis]
| Toronto, Canada
| Tom has been an OSGeo charter member since 2007 and has served on the Board since 2018. He has contributed to numerous OSGeo software packages, such as MapServer, GeoNode, QGIS, PyWPS and OWSLib, and he is the creator of pycsw and pygeoapi. He is also on several Project Steering Committees (PSCs).

Tom is a longtime member of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), where he has been involved in the development of several specifications. More recently you may have heard him talk about the new OGC API, or even used his latest contribution to our ecosystem: the pygeoapi project, a Python implementation of the OGC API suite of standards which is also an OGC Reference Implementation. Tom is also active in the UN World Meteorological Organization and chairs the WMO Expert Team on Metadata in support of next generation weather/climate/water data sharing efforts.

Tom currently works at the Meteorological Service of Canada where he and his team leverage the power of OSGeo software and OGC standards for mission critical applications.

Given his diverse background and dedication to open source software and open standards, he is a perfect candidate for the OSGeo board.
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/morissette/ Daniel Morissette]

|- valign="top"
| 4
| [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Micheletobias Michele Tobias]
| Davis, USA
| I would like to nominate Michele Tobias for election as a director of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). I knew Michele by reputation as a cartographer, kite aerial photographer, trainer and open source advocate before meeting her in person at FOSS4G 2018 in Dar Es Salaam.

She has been an OSGeo charter member since 2017.

Michele works at the University of California Davis (UC Davis) DataLab providing spatial data science collaboration, support, and training to campus researchers across many academic disciplines. She has a long history of helping people to use OSGeo tools in her professional life, with a clear mission to give people the tools they need to thrive along their journey into geo openness. Her experience with people new to geospatial tools and the open source community brings a valuable 'how do we look to people just starting out' perspective to the organisation.
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/steer/ Adam Steer]

|}

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2020]]

Board Member Nominations 2020

2020-11-19T09:10:59Z

Jgrocha: Michael Smith and Tom Kralidis

2020-10-19T19:44:19Z

2020-10-15T08:27:10Z

Jgrocha: Laurențiu Nicola

New Member Nominations 2020

2020-10-15T08:22:05Z

Jgrocha: Ricardo Silva