New Member Nominations 2025

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#	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
9	Kateryna Konieva	Portugal	Kateryna has been bringing FOSS4G to the world of architectural applications, for many years; she is a savvy QGIS plugin developer and has participated in numerous QGIS and FOSS4G events; in recent years she has also been involved with OGC Standards, in particular the more modern breadth of OGC APIs, contributing towards modernizing the GIS world. Profile: Kateryna Konieva Wiki: Kateryna Konieva	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	Alex Mandel: 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. Matthew Hanson: I nominate Julia Signell for OSGeo Charter Membership. Julia is a Senior Software Engineer at Element 84, active in the Pangeo community and a member of the STAC Steering Committee. She has contributed to widely used open-source libraries including Dask, HoloViz, and STAC tools, presented at FOSS4G, and consistently promotes interoperability and best practices in geospatial data. Her technical expertise, leadership, and commitment to open source make her an excellent candidate. Profile: Julia Signell Wiki: Julia Signell	Alex Mandel Matthew Hanson
21	Simon Nitz	New Zealand	I nominate Simon Nitz for his outstanding dedication to advancing OSGeo's mission in education and community building. As an active FOSS4G organizer and OSGeo Oceania member, Simon has helped organise FOSS4G events in Oceania, as well as led numerous QGIS training workshops. This year Simon is Co-Chair for the Global FOSS4G event being held in Auckland New Zealand. His tireless efforts have successfully introduced FOSS4G to a new generation of users and professionals, making him an ideal Charter Member to support the Foundation's governance and outreach efforts. Profile: Simon Nitz Wiki: Simon Nitz	Alex Leith
22	Pete Gadomski	United States of America	Pete is a member of the STAC Project Steering Committee, and has been presenting at OSGeo conferences since 2018 in St. Louis. He has been actively contributing to open source geospatial projects for over a decade, especially for point cloud processing and format translation (e.g. PDAL). He maintains several small open source geospatial projects, including a Rust implementation of the LAS specification (las-rs) and a Python package for correcting geometries that cross the antimeridian (https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.07530). He actively maintains several key packages in the STAC software ecosystem, including pystac and pystac-client, and has a Rust implementation (with Python bindings) of the STAC specification at rustac. He regularly talks about geospatial software development at conferences and community events, including FOSS4G international and regional conferences, Pangeo meetups, and more. Profile: Pete Gadomski Wiki: Pete Gadomski	Wei Ji Leong
23	Gabriel De Luca	Argentina	Gabriel actively contributes to the open source geospatial community through his involvement in the QGIS, Geoinquiet@s and OpenStreetMap Argentina communities. He is a Land Surveying Engineer with a strong background in geospatial sciences and is recognized for his generosity in sharing knowledge, his enthusiasm for free and open source software, and his commitment to supporting new users and improving their experience with OSGeo projects. He consistently demonstrates a responsible attitude and adapts well to teamwork. Profile: Gabriel De Luca Wiki: Gabriel De Luca	Ariel Anthieni
24	Ulrike Assmann	Germany	Ulrike Assmann is a familiar face at conferences like FOSS4G and the german language FOSSGIS. Ulrike Assmann is an active member of FOSSGIS e.V (since 2017) and a Member of the programme committee since 2021. Ulrike is good in networking and welcomes newcomer to our community. Ulrike organized several Geochicas meetings at FOSSGIS conferences. Ulrike Assmann has been working on the use of open-source geoinformation systems since several years. She supports OSGeo since many years and is a power user for QGIS and PostgreSQL/PostGIS. She is currently Senior Hydrographic Cartographer in the Hydrographic Office of Germany (BSH). Profile: Ulrike Assmann Wiki: Ulrike Assmann	Astrid Emde
25	Mikhaïl Jean de Dieu Dotou Padonou	Benin	I have known Mikhaïl since 2021, when he participated in the Free GIS ARES-CCI internship, I coordinate at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where he was highly motivated and proactive. He is now pursuing a PhD at the University of Liège (ULg) in partnership with the University of Parakou, focusing on GIS, remote sensing, and landscape ecology. Mikhaïl is the promoter of the Atlas de l’environnement du Bénin (https://dotoupadonou.wixsite.com/mikhail-eportfolio/post/le-b%C3%A9nin-en-cartes-atlas-de-l-environnement-2025), an open-access atlas using QGIS and other FOSS4G tools, which has produced over 100 thematic maps widely used by researchers, NGOs, and public institutions. He continues to support capacity building in geospatial technologies, sharing his expertise in our internship for professionals from mostly Central African countries, but also mentoring new users, and collaborating with the informal OSGeo community in Benin (e.g., reflecting on the official recognition of a local chapter and contributing to the organization of a future FOSS4G event in West Africa). His proactive engagement, participation in several French FOSS4G events (last one https://conf.qgis.osgeo.fr/), and dedication to knowledge sharing make him an outstanding candidate for OSGeo Charter Membership. Profile: Mikhaïl Jean de Dieu Dotou Padonou Wiki: Mikhaïl Jean de Dieu Dotou Padonou	Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel
26	Sunghoon Cha	South Korea	Sunghoon Cha is a highly capable technical leader and instructor dedicated to developing and deploying FOSS4G-based systems. He holds degrees in geography and information engineering, and brings more than 20 years of hands-on GIS experience encompassing programming, project management, and system architecture. His domain knowledge spans large-scale system integration. He regularly provides consulting and developer/user training tailored to government system needs, enabling open-source GIS solutions to be adopted in complex public environments. He has demonstrated consistent leadership in transferring FOSS4G best practices and know-how to large-scale systems—ensuring sustainable, scalable, and maintainable implementations. His work contributes meaningfully to addressing global priorities like carbon neutrality and green growth. As a long-standing member of the OSGeo Korean Chapter (since 2012) and an Open Source GIS Instructor at LX Spatial Information Academy (since 2018), Sunghoon has sustained his commitment to education, community building, and technical advocacy. His continued contributions in training, system deployment, and outreach reflect the very positive attributes expected of an OSGeo Charter Member: technical excellence, community leadership, commitment to open principles, and real-world impact. Profile: Sunghoon Cha Wiki: Sunghoon Cha	MinPa Lee
27	Max Jones	United States of America	Max has been contributing to the open source geospatial ecosystem since 2020 by building datasets, software, and educational resources. He led short courses for the EarthScope consortium on GMT for Geodesy, organized the 2021 ESWN Workshop Professional Development Workshop: Developing Free and Open Source Software with PyGMT (Max has been contributing to the open source geospatial ecosystem since 2020 by building datasets, software, and educational resources. He led short courses for the EarthScope consortium on GMT for Geodesy, organized the 2021 ESWN Workshop Professional Development Workshop: Developing Free and Open Source Software with PyGMT, taught tutorials on PyGMT at EGU 2022, Xarray at SciPy 2024, and Pangeo at EGU 2025. He has further demonstrated a commitment to outreach by leading the Earth Science Data Systems Working Group on Community Development Best Practices and the Pangeo Machine Learning working group. He serves as a Steering Council member on Pangeo and regularly helps with community engagement through website maintenance, showcase organization, and event coordination. He is a founding member of the Cloud Native Geospatial Forum’s Editorial Board. Lastly, he has maintained several open source geospatial software libraries including GMT, PyGMT, Xbatcher, Ndpyramid and Zarr.), taught tutorials on PyGMT at EGU 2022, Xarray at SciPy 2024, and Pangeo at EGU 2025. He has further demonstrated a commitment to outreach by leading the Earth Science Data Systems Working Group on Community Development Best Practices and the Pangeo Machine Learning working group. He serves as a Steering Council member on Pangeo and regularly helps with community engagement through website maintenance, showcase organization, and event coordination. He is a founding member of the Cloud Native Geospatial Forum’s Editorial Board. Lastly, he has maintained several open source geospatial software libraries including GMT, PyGMT, Xbatcher, Ndpyramid and Zarr. Profile: Max Jones Wiki: Max Jones	Wei Ji Leong
28	Huidae Cho	United States of America	Luca Delucchi: Huidae is a long time GRASS GIS developer, his contribution is related to water resources engineering and hydrology, optimization algorithms, and uncertainty analysis. He is really active in the community and he also mentored students in Google Summer of Code. Helmut Kudrnovsky: For very long time, Huidae Cho is part of the GRASS development team. He has an outstanding knowledge of the GRASS source code; recently he pushes forward the cmake build of GRASS; he always a helping hand for the community and involves young members of his lab into GRASS development; he`s a member of the current GRASS PSC. Profile: Huidae Cho Wiki: Huidae Cho	Luca Delucchi Helmut Kudrnovsky
29	Heather Hillers	Germany	Heather Hillers is a familiar face at conferences like FOSS4G and the german language FOSSGIS or QGIS User meeting. Heather is good in networking and very interested in new technologies and learning. She joins networking meetings for example the Geochicas meetings at conferences and welcomes newcomer to our community. Heather Hillers is working at Erftverband in Germany working in Open Source GIS since 10 years. She is an all-round talent and a programmer and has fun with writing QGIS plugins and is a power user for QGIS and PostgreSQL/PostGIS. She is successfully introducing Open Source technologies to the organisation she is workling for and manages to master the challenges she faces. It would be great to welcome Heather as a Charter member as she inspires others with her energy and her knowledge. Profile: Heather Hillers Wiki: Heather Hillers	Astrid Emde
31	Juan Pablo Duque Ordoñez	Colombia	Federica Gaspari: Juan Pablo is currently completing is Ph.D. journey in Geoinformatics at Politecnico di Milano, with research focused on open-source software application in the geospatial domain. Coming from Colombia with a computer science background, he is currently working on the usage of open source software, open data, and open geospatial standards for the development of Urban Digital Twins, in particular for street network analysis and active mobility. Passionate about new tools and impactful solutions, he is an enthusiast member of the community, having participated in multiple ISPRS and FOSS4G conferences both as presenter and volunteer, as well as developing and collaborating with open-source software projects regarding OSGeo and OGC tools. Marco Minghini: His passion and enthusiasm would make him a great ambassador for open source geospatial software. Please welcome him as a Charter Member Profile: Juan Pablo Duque Ordoñez Wiki: Juan Pablo Duque Ordoñez	Federica Gaspari Marco Minghini
32	Evelyn Uuemaa	Estonia	Evelyn works at the University of Tartu, where she leads the Landscape Geoinformatics Lab since 2017. She is a Professor in Geoinformatics and Head of the Chair of Geoinformatics and Cartography since 2023. She is extremely passionate about open source geospatial software, strongly using and promoting it both in her research and teaching activities. She has attended several international FOSS4G conferences. Among these, she was one of the organisers of the very successful FOSS4G Europe 2024 and on that occasion, she co-chaired the conference Academic Track with me, showing a unique passion and dedication. She is an ambassador of FOSS4G values and principles and for this reason she would represent a great asset for OSGeo if elected as a Charter Member. Profile: Evelyn Uuemaa Wiki: Evelyn Uuemaa	Marco Minghini
33	Jani Kylmäaho	Finland	Jani has been an active member of the FOSS4G community in Finland for many years. He has been a member of the Oskari development team (www.oskari.org). He has actively shared the message and value of open source software for the public and private sector. He also has held several talks about the value of FOSS4G in local and international events (including FOSS4G events). I think Jani will be a valuable charter member of OSGeo. Profile: Jani Kylmäaho Wiki: Jani Kylmäaho	Pekka Sarkola
34	Nicklas Larsson	Hungary	Nicklas Larsson is a very important member of the GRASS delevoper team and GRASS PSC, recently helping in building the Mac binaries of GRASS and pushing forward the GRASS cmake build system; he has always a helping hand for the community. Profile: Nicklas Larsson Wiki: Nicklas Larsson	Helmut Kudrnovsky
35	Michael Barton	United States of America	Michael Barton is a very long member of the GRASS community; he had always a look at the Mac side of GRASS; he develeoped the Tcl/TK GUI interface of GRASS back then, later started on the wxpython GUI development for GRASS; he is former member of the GRASS PSC with a high focus of community building. Profile: Michael Barton Wiki: Michael Barton	Helmut Kudrnovsky
37	Jarrett Keifer	United States of America	Jarrett is a Senior Geospatial Software Engineer at Element 84, active in the open-source geospatial community through his work on STAC, COG, Zarr, and orchestration frameworks such as Cirrus. He has presented at FOSS4G on cloud-native geospatial and data interoperability, and has contributed to advancing scalable, standards-based workflows for earth observation data. His open-source contributions, community involvement, and commitment to interoperability make him an excellent candidate. Profile: Jarrett Keifer	Matthew Hanson
38	Céline Vilain	Belgium	Gaël Kruwialis: I am honored to nominate Céline Vilain as an OSGeo Charter Member, with the full support of Roel Huybrechts. Céline has been an increasingly active and influential member of OSGeo Belgium for the past three years, demonstrating a deep commitment to open-source geospatial solutions and open data. Céline’s journey began in agronomic sciences, but it was during her Master’s in Geomatics that she discovered the power and potential of open-source tools. Since then, she has become a strong advocate for free and open-source solutions within her professional role in public administration, where she promotes their adoption to enhance transparency, interoperability, and efficiency. Her contributions to OSGeo Belgium have grown significantly over time. She actively participates in community events, shares her expertise, and works to bridge the gap between public institutions and the open-source geospatial ecosystem. Céline’s dedication to fostering collaboration, her technical skills, and her passion for open data make her a valuable asset to our community. Her work not only advances the use of open-source geospatial technologies in Belgium but also inspires others in the public sector to embrace these solutions. Her ability to connect with both technical and non-technical stakeholders makes her an excellent candidate for Charter Membership. Profile: Céline Vilain Wiki: Céline Vilain	Gaël Kruwialis
39	Niklas Alt	Germany	Niklas is an active member of FOSSGIS e.V (since 2016). He is active in several working groups of FOSSGIS e.V. and helps to organize the annual FOSSGIS conference. He was involved in organizing and chairing panel discussions on the conference. He is currently employed at the Hessian Institute for Regional History in Marburg. He aims to foster the use and acceptance in historical academic research and public institutions on the federal, national and european level. His academic interest lies within the spatial humanities, using exlusively an OSGeo Software Stack and promoting the use of free and open software and a commitment to open historical geodata and open standards within this community. His work involves the reconstruction of historical boundaries, the georeferencing of historical maps and the reconstruction of historical spatial reference systems. To this end he is using PostGIS, GDAL, PROJ, QGIS, GRASS GIS and OpenLayers. He is coordinating an international data standardization group aiming to build an open data model to standardize the data structures in the Historical Town Atlas (HTA). The HTA aims to reconstruct the face of the premodern European cities using a critical cartographic edition of the first exact cadastral maps. Profile: Niklas Alt Wiki: Niklas Alt	Astrid Emde
40	Christian Strobl	Germany	Christian Strobl is a familiar face at conferences like FOSS4G and the german language FOSSGIS. Christian is an active member of FOSSGIS e.V (since 2008) and a Member of the programme committee since 2021. He attended also often the international FOSS4G conferences, the last time at Prizren 2023. Christian is passionate about teaching open-source GIS. In addition to his teaching position at LMU Munich, where he trains geology students in developing geological applications and maps with QGIS, he has frequently given workshops at our FOSSGIS conference on remote sensing and GeoPython.. Christian has been working with open-source geoinformation systems for over 20 years, from PostGIS and GeoServer/UMN MapServer to QGIS and GeoPython. He is Geographical Information Officer at the Bavarian State Ministry of the Environment and Consumer Protection Profile: Christian Strobl Wiki: Christian Strobl	Astrid Emde
41	Andrés Gómez Casanova	Colombia	Andrés Gómez is a driving force behind collaborative mapping in Latin America, combining deep expertise in OpenStreetMap, workflow automation, and community-led geospatial initiatives. Through his leadership of AC3 and as an organizer of State of the Map Latam 2025, he has promoted inclusive participation, technical capacity building, and strategic outreach across diverse regions. His contributions range from scripting and systems optimization to multilingual documentation and event coordination —always grounded in the values of openness, transparency, and empowerment. Profile: Andrés Gómez Casanova Wiki: Andrés Gómez Casanova	Ariel Anthieni
42	Mirko Blinn	Germany	Astrid Emde: Mirko Blinn is a familiar face at conferences like FOSS4G and FOSSGIS. He supports OSGeo since many years promoting the foundation and software at the OSGeo booth at conferences. Mirko Blinn has been working on the use of open-source geionformation systems in the field of spatial planning and nature conservation since 2015. In his dissertation at the University of Bonn, he is currently researching, among other things, the use of open geodata in land use models to simulate sustainable settlement developments and their integration in spatial planning processes. Since 2018, he has been supporting 40 nature conservation associations in Nordrehein-Westpfalen, Germany, in the implementation of QGIS, QFIELD and the development of a central database for the consolidation of plant and animal data from various data sources (e.g. from portals such as Obersavation.org, GIS, etc.). Profile: Blinn Mirko	Astrid Emde
43	Alastair Graham	United Kingdom	Alistair has been an active Open Source supporter in the UK for a number of years, including being an OSGeo:UK committee member since 2019, he has co-organised FOSS4G:UK meetings in 2020, 2022 and 2024: He is keen to help coordinate the bid for and organization of the next FOSS4G international conference in the UK (2027). He has also previously organized the very successful Rasters Revealed conference series. He is an advocate of open-source and open-data and want to help healthy communities grow around tooling, data and ideals linked to these concepts. Profile: Alastair Graham Wiki: Alastair Graham	Nick Bearman
44	James Milner	United Kingdom	James is a open source developer living in East London, currently working remotely for Addresscloud. He is the founder and lead maintainer of the Terra Draw project, a JavaScript library for drawing on web maps. The library is currently a OSGeo community project and was selected to be worked on at the FOSS4G UK CodeSprint in 2024 in Dorset. The project was also recipient for the OSGeo UK’s GoFundGeo prize in 2023 and 2024. James was the co-chair for FOSS4G UK in 2018 and has spoken at many national, European and global FOSS4G events over the years. He is currently on the Space Advisory board for OpenUK, a not-for-profit company which supports open source collaboration and open technologies within the United Kingdom. Profile: James Milner Wiki: James Milner	Nick Bearman
45	Jonny Huck	United Kingdom	I am very happy to nominate Jonny Huck as a Charter Member. He is a Professor of Computational Geography at the University of Manchester and a Director of Lune Geographic Ltd GIS Consultancy. He maintains the Polygon Divider plugin for QGIS, alongside a range of other Open Source GIS scripts and software. He has been a committee member of OSGeo:UK since 2024, and was a local chair/co-chair for FOSS4G:UK in 2023 (Manchester) and 2024 (Lancaster), and also moderates the UK mailing list. Profile: Jonny Huck Wiki: Jonny Huck	Nick Bearman
46	Michel Stuyts	Belgium	I am honored to nominate Michel Stuyts as an OSGeo Charter Member. Michel has been a pillar of the Belgian geospatial open-source community, making substantial contributions to projects like QGIS and MapGuide Open Source, and promoting the use of open geospatial web services. Through his blog (www.michelstuyts.be and geone.ws) and active presence on social media, he has played a crucial role in sharing resources, educating users, and making geospatial data more accessible in Belgium. His efforts in organizing and participating in community events, such as GeoDevEvening and FOSS4G Belgium, have helped grow and sustain the local open-source geospatial ecosystem. Michel’s technical skills, dedication to open data, and his ability to connect and support others in the community embody the qualities of an OSGeo Charter Member. His work has not only advanced the use of open-source tools but has also inspired others. Profile: Michel Stuyts Wiki: Michel Stuyts	Gaël Kruwialis
47	Marc Ducobu	Belgium	Marc has been a foundational member of the Belgian open-source geospatial community for many years, contributing significantly through his involvement in OSGeo.be as a founding member and his active role in organizing key events such as GeoDevEvening and FOSS4G Belgium. His dedication to fostering collaboration, promoting open-source geospatial tools, and supporting community growth aligns perfectly with the values and requirements of an OSGeo Charter Member. Marc’s leadership in building bridges between public institutions, private actors, and the open-source community has strengthened the ecosystem in Belgium. Recently, he also joined the OSGeo Belgium board, further demonstrating his commitment to advancing open geospatial technologies. His technical expertise, organizational skills, and passion for open data make him an excellent candidate for this recognition. Profile: Marc Ducobu Wiki: Marc Ducobu	Gaël Kruwialis