Board 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	Statement	Nominated by
1	Jeroen Ticheler	The Netherlands	Jeroen has been for along while a strong supporter of OSGeo. He is a person of integrity and commitment. He has been part of code sprint events organisation (Bolsena), and in general has supported many FOSS4G events. He has worked for the FAO and established the GeoNetwork opensource project and is Project Officer for the project. He already had a previous experience on the OSGeo Board of directors in 2007/2008. Again in the Board since 2024, his experience and knowledge is a great asset worth keeping.	CRO
2	Codrina Maria Ilie	Romania	Codrina is a very well-known member of the OSGeo community for many years. Since 2010 she has been a volunteer trainer in the Romanian geospatial community, she is a regular participant and speaker in international FOSS4G events and she has herself been one of the main organisers of FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest. Codrina has been an OSGeo Charter Member since 2013 and she is a strong advocate for FOSS4G. As a member of the OSGeo Board in the last six years, she has shown an incredible passion, motivation and commitment that the next board would still very much need. She has very well represented OSGeo in the interaction and relation with other international communities such as INSPIRE and ESA.	CRO
3	Marco Bernasocchi	Switzerland	Marco is an open source advocate, consultant, teacher and developer with a background in geography with a specialisation in geographic information science. Marco is currently the chair of QGIS PSC and the director and founder of OPENGIS.ch (since 2011) where he and his team develop, train and consult clients on open source GIS. He is a long-time contributor to QGIS (and FOSS4G in general) and a charter member of OSGeo since 2018. He has served at the board of directors for the last six years, showing a strong passion for Open Source and making an impact in the community.	CRO
4	Rajat Shinde	India	Rajat is involved in OSGeo since 2017 as a student for Google Summer of Code for the MapMint project and then as a mentor for the GSoC. He has contributed to OSGeo software like the ZOO-Project. He actively participates in FOSS4G events and is part of OSGeo India. Rajat holds a PhD in Geo-informatics and currently works for NASA. Rajat has served at the board of directors for the last four years, gaining valuable experience in decision making as the youngest member of the board, showing strong passion for our community.	CRO
5	Vicky Vergara	Mexico	Vicky is a tireless promoter of the OSGeo Foundation and loves encouraging new people she meets to contribute and get involved. Whenever there is a FOSS4G conference, she is often there helping out at the OSGeo booth. She is on the Project Steering committee of pgRouting, OSGeoLive, and SAC. She has also been heavily involved in Google Summer of Code for over a decade, where she has mentored many who have later become part of the OSGeo family. Vicky has been a Board member since 2019.	CRO
6	Matthew Hanson	United States of America	Matthew Hanson has been an important contributor and advocator for Open Software and Open Standards within the Remote Sensing ecosystem; a regular at FOSS4G NA and FOSS4G World for more than 20 years, Matthew has always shown a firm commitment with the OSGeo community. I believe that his technical insight about software projects and his experience of engaging with different communities, in particular from the EO realm, could be valuable to the OSGeo board.	Joana Simoes
7	Tim Sutton	South Africa	Tim has been involved in the QGIS project for more than 20 years, contributing to shape the software and its community, and enabling it to become what we know today. It is not uncommon that QGIS is the first OSGeo project that many users get to know, and through his company, Tim has helped lots of organizations across the world to switch to QGIS through consulting and training services. I believe that his extensive experience in the QGIS board and as director of Kartoza could provide great value in the OSGeo board.	Joana Simoes
8	Ariel Anthieni	Argentina	Ariel has been advocating for, and implementing Spatial Data Infra Structures with FOSS/OSGeo software for more than ten years. He is a key person in the OSGeo Latin America community, as demonstrated by his strong involvement with the various conferences that took place on that part of the American continent. Ariel has always been passionate about strengthening OSGeo in Latin America, and I believe he could pursuit that goal in the OSGeo board, along with making us a more diverse and multi-lingual community.	Joana Simoes