New Member Nominations 2025

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 CRO

#	Nominee Name	Country	Positive attributes	Nominated by
6	Carlos Eduardo Mota	Brazil	Carlos is graduated in Geology from Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), in 2005, Post Graduated in Basin Analysis and Mobile Belts from UERJ, with a Master’s Degree in Applied Geophysics (2008) and PhD in Petrology and Geochemistry (2012). He has 15 years of experience in using FOSS4G, acquired and applied at the Environmental and Water Resources Institute (IEMA/ES), from Espírito Santo State and at the Geological Survey of Brazil (SGB/CPRM). Carlos is currently one of the SGB/CPRM’s representatives at Spatial Data Infrastructure of Brazil (INDE) and member of Technical Implementation Group (TIG) of OneGeology. He is also leader of the Data Science Nucleus (NDS) of the SGB/CPRM. He works in research and development of new and disruptive technologies, in addition to proposing out-of-the-box solutions for internal geoscientific problems and those of partner institutions, with outstanding performance as an architect, developer, mediator and consultant in Spatial Data Infrastructures, desktop, server and mobile GIS, remote sensing, geographic database systems and OGC/ISO 19100 Series standards. He is also a specialist in Python, PHP and Javascript, geospatial APIs and Data Analytics – Including with training given to SGB/CPRM, IBGE and Embrapa’s employees. Carlos is part of the Brazil Local Chapter and has been a familiar face at recent FOSS4 events, including 2021 (Buenos Aires), 2022 (Firenze) as well as 2024 (Belém) where he was IT Co-Chair of the Local Committee. Carlos is engaging, a pleasure to collaborate with, and would be an asset to our community as a Charter Member. Profile: Carlos Eduardo Mota Wiki: Carlos Eduardo Mota	Tom Kralidis
7	Luís Calisto	Portugal	Luis not only have been implementing Infrastructures based on Free and Open Source Software, but has been openly advocating for the use of Free Software on those organizations; he is a regular at FOSS4G events, presenting talks and workshops that teach FOSS tools to people in different parts of the world. Profile: Luís Calisto Wiki: Luís Calisto	Joana Simoes
10	Benjamin Webb	United States of America	Ben is a rising star in the FOSS4G ecosystem. He has been a top contributor to the pygeoapi project for many years, and has been doing a valuable job as maintainer. He has also attended FOSS4G conferences, where he taught others how to use pygeoapi, through the "Dive into pygeoapi" workshop. Profile: Benjamin Webb Wiki: Benjamin Webb	Joana Simoes
11	Joseph Emile Honour Percival	Samoa	Vicky Vergara: It is my pleasure to nominate Iosefa Percival to be a charter-member. A postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hawaii where his expertise includes, and not limited to, GIS with focus on routing algorithms, remote sensing with focus on ecology. He is a developer of pgRouting and his focus is on VRP algorithms, collaborating on the pgRouting sub-product vrpRouting. He is a member of the PSC of pgRouting. He understands that the main responsibility he is acquiring is to participate in the OSGeo Elections, and he is willing to study the nominated candidates to fill up the ballots he receives. He also understands that failing for two consecutive years on participating in the elections he will be classified as inactive. Profile: Joseph Emile Honour Percival Wiki: Joseph Emile Honour Percival	Vicky Vergara
14	Weston Renoud	Netherlands	Weston is collaborating in the PROJ and DGGS/GeoPlegma projects. He gave a talk in FOSS4G Mostar (https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-europe-2025/talk/C8EMH7/ ). He can give an interesting perspective to OSGeo with this deep knowledge in hydrography, both from the software development and scientific/technical point of view. Profile: Weston Renoud Wiki: Weston Renoud	Javier Jimenez Shaw
16	Felix Delattre	Germany	Felix has been an active contributor to the Geospatial Open Source community since 2009. He played a key role in mapping and building up the OpenStreetMap community in Nicaragua, used to be heavily involved in the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, led the overhaul of the Taskig Manager software, has contributed to the Debian GIS packaging team, and has been a member of the FOSSGIS chapter since 2016. Felix feels truly at home at FOSS4G events and continues to dedicate his efforts to strengthening the open geospatial ecosystem. I had the opportunity to collaborate with Felix in the HOT OpenStreetMap Board of Directors, also last year as co-organizers of a STAC / STAPI sprint in Berlin in 2024 among other different projects, I just have positive words to describe Felix commitment with Open Source projects and how he helps and inspire people around him. I totally support his nomination, he will be a great asset to OsGeo members. Profile: Felix Delattre Wiki: Felix Delattre	Miriam González
20	Julia Signell	United States of America	Julia has been an active member of the scientific Python community and over the past few years has become more engaged with the geospatial community as part of the Pangeo, STAC, Zarr, and Cloud Native Geospatial communities. She regularly attends and presents at FOSS4G-NA, SciPy, PyData, AGU (American Geophysical Union), and CNG (Cloud Native Geospatial) conferences. Julia also regularly participates in sprints and working meetings involving Pangeo, STAC, STAPI, Dask, and Bokeh and at various points has been a maintainer on the following FOSS Python libraries: pystac, pystac-client, xarray, dask, hvplot, bokeh, intake, intake-xarray. She is currently a member of the STAC Project Steering Committee. Profile: Julia Signell Wiki: Julia Signell	Alex Mandel