New Member Nominations 2018

The Charter Member nomination (part of the Election 2018) will be open from 2018-09-24 to 2018-10-07. The list of nominees for the 2018 Charter Member Election is maintained by the Chief Returning Officer (cro at osgeo.org). This page is write protected and can only be edited by SysOps.

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To submit a charter member nomination:

• Please confirm with the nominated person first!
• Please email cro@osgeo.org (not to discuss@osgeo.org) with their name, contact email (if possible, use a personal email address not the work one that can change in the future) and paragraph describing why you are recommending this person as a Charter Member (please include details about the positive attributes of the nominee)
• Also, you might want to reference their OSGeo Advocate profile.

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

_#_	_______Name_______	_____Country_____	Notes	second	Thread
1	Peddada Jagadeeswara Rao	India	From: Ravivundavalli Prof P.Jagadeeswara Rao, of the Geoengineering Department, is a well known GIS expert of Andhra University. Prof P.Jagadeeswara Ra conducted several well attended events with OSGeo software at Andhra University. His skills include, GIS for Environmental Impact Assessment of Water Resources and Hydrologic and Water Resource Modelling and Simulation. His research items and citations are elaborated in the link below [1]. [1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peddada_Jagadeeswara_Rao2
2	Ariel Anthieni	Argentina	From: Mauricio Miranda Ariel is a very active member in our local community and also in the spanish speaking local chapter. He is one of the founders of Geoinquietos Argentina, has been involved in all our local events and served as chairman at the FOSS4G-AR 2016. He has played a very important role at the national SDI project in Argentina, mainly leading the metadata team. I'm completely sure he would be a wonderful asset for OSGeo.
3	Manuel Retamozo	Argentina	From: Mauricio_Miranda would like to nominate Manuel Retamozo for Charter Member. Manuel is a one of most active developers in our community. He co-founded Geoinquietos Argentina and was member of the organizing team of FOSS4G-AR in 2013, 2016 and 2017. He is member of the development team of Argentina's SDI project and he also has worked in many different government organizations spreading the Open Source and Open Data philosophy. Following this path, he has given many different trainings and workshop all around the country about FOSS4G tools. In my opinion, he would be a great Charter Member.Cheers, Manuel_Retamozo		thread"
4	Malena Libman	Argentina	From: Alex Mandel Malena is a long time member of the OSGeo (Geoinquietos Argentina), Foss4g Argentina, and OSM communities in Argentina including GeochicasOSM. She recently represented the Argentina Chapter at FOSS4G 2018, and joined the OSGeo Marketing Committee. Malena is a student at National University of Tres de Febrero (UNTREF), studying to get a degree in Geographic Information Systems. She has taught workshops on FOSS4G topics, works on Spatial Data Infrastructure at SEGEMAR, the national geological institute, and participates in IDERA, the National Spatial Data Infrastructure in Argentina. Malena Libman
5	Horacio Castellaro	Argentina	From: Veronica Andreo Horacio is a very active member of the local communities of Geoinquiet@s and OSM Argentina. He has been one of the organizers of the FOSS4G Argentina editions and has taught workshops, seminars and webinars, always fostering the use and development of FOSS4G. He is deeply involved in the Argentinian SDI (IDERA) and has been director of the Geospatial Information Area at the National Geographic Institute (IGN). At present, he is coordinating the GIS Development area in Buenos Aires city government. I believe Horacio is a very valuable asset for the OSGeo family. Horacio José Castellaro
6	Selene Yang		From: Veronica Andreo Selene is co-founder and coordinator of  Geochicas, a gender focused group in the OpenStreetMap community and FOSS4G. She has also been involved in the organization of different FOSS4G related activities like conferences, meetings, workshops. She is currently enrolled in a PhD in Communication. Her research focuses in the necessity of having inclusive communities and gender focused open geospatial data. She also helps with outreach activities through publications on the Geochicas accounts and the media. In all, I believe Selene is a great asset in the community. Seleneyang