New Member Nominations 2013

The Charter Member nomination period runs from 2013-07-09 to 2013-07-23! The list of nominees for the 2013 Charter Member Election is maintained by the Chief Returning Officer (cro at osgeo.org).

To submit a charter member nomination:

• Please confirm with the nominated person first!
• Please email cro@osgeo.org with their name, country, contact email and paragraph describing why you are recommending this person as a Charter Member
• Please also feel free to cc: the nomination to the OSGeo discussion list - discuss@lists.osgeo.org - so the community can be nudged along and have a sense of what is going on.
• Also, you might want to reference your OSGeo Advocate profile.

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

Name	Country	Notes
Just van den Broecke	The Netherlands	From: Bart van den Eijnden I'd like to nominate Just van den Broecke for OSGeo charter membership. Just has invested a lot of his time in getting the Dutch language chapter of Osgeo set up recently [0]. He has worked with a lot of the OSGeo software projects and has also developed tools in the open source domain on top of this such as Heron Mapping Components [1] and Streaming ETL [2]. In 2012 he organised the OSGeo track at the Geospatial World Forum 2012 (GWF) and he is a regular visitor/speaker to/on FOSS4G and the Bolsena hacking event as well. [0] http://osgeo.nl [1] http://heron-mc.org [2] http://www.stetl.org
Phillip Davis	USA	From: Phillip Davis I would like to nominate myself for the OSGeo Charter membership. As the Director of the GeoTech Center [0] and Project Manager of the NISGTC [1] and a 30 year educator, I have a broad, international, interest in promoting Open Source software. My immediate goal is to secure $2M in NSF funding to create a national FOSS4G Academy here in the US [2]. Please also check out my LinkedIn profile [3]. [0] http://geotechcenter.org [1] http://nisgtc.org [2] http://foss4geo.org [3] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/phillip-davis/9/59/b7b/
Marc Jansen	Germany	From: Bart van den Eijnden I'd like to nominate Marc Jansen for OSGeo charter membership. Marc is actively involved in the OpenLayers [0] and GeoExt [1] projects and works for the German company terrestris [2]. He also co-created the GXM (GeoExt Mobile) [3] library based on Sencha Touch and OpenLayers. Marc also co-wrote a book [4] in German on OpenLayers. In 2012 Terrestris hosted a code sprint on GeoExt 2 in Bonn at their office, which was a great experience. A lot of the initial code for GeoExt 2 was actually created at an internal code sprint by terrestris in Malta. I have met Marc many times at code sprints and FOSS4G conferences, and was surprised to see he's not actually already a charter member. [0] http://openlayers.org/ [1] https://github.com/GeoExt/ [2] http://www.terrestris.de/ [3] https://github.com/GeoExt/GXM [4] http://www.amazon.de/OpenLayers-Webentwicklung-dynamischen-Karten-Geodaten/dp/3937514929
Volker Mische	Germany	From: Bart van den Eijnden I'd like to nominate Volker Mische for OsGeo charter membership, since to my GREAT surprise he is not already a charter member. Volker hardly needs any introduction. He is the creator of GeoCouch [0] and works at Couchbase [1]. I'm sure many of you have seen his talks @FOSS4G conferences on this subject. He also contributed to OpenLayers [2], has co-created a library that integrates OpenLayers with jQuery (MapQuery). Volker is very active member in the OSGeo community already, and was involved in the organisation of FOSS4G in 2009 in Sydney [3]. See also his engagement with FOSS4G 2013 [4]. [0] https://github.com/couchbase/geocouch/ [1] http://www.couchbase.com/ [2] http://openlayers.org/ [3] http://2009.foss4g.org/ [4] http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2013/programm/speakers/33.de.html
Marco Lechner	Germany	From: Athina Trakas I would like to nominate Marco Lechner as OSGeo Charter member. Marco is a well known and constant supporter of the the OSGeo community and since many years involved in planning and execution of the German speaking FOSSGIS Konferenz [0]. He is president of the management board of the FOSSGIS e.V. [1], the legal association supporting Free Software for Geoinformation and Open Geodata in Germany. The history of FOSSGIS goes back to the German GRASS User Community founded in 2001. The FOSSGIS e.V. is the OSGeo German speaking Local Chapter and acts as a legal entitiy for the German speaking OpenStreetMap [2] community. [0] http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2013/ [1] http://www.fossgis.de/ [2] http://www.openstreetmap.de/