New Member Nominations 2022

The Charter Member nomination (part of the Election 2021) will be open from 2021-11-01 to 2021-11-14 (2 weeks). 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 either CRO

#	Nominee Name	Country	Positive attributes	Nominated by
1	Bianca Federici	Italy	"Bianca is an active member of the Italian community. She is a professor at the University of Genoa software teaching and researching using free GIS for a long time. She has been part of the organisation of several national organisations since 2007 and was co-chair of the FOSS4G 2022" Profile: Bianca Federici	Luca Delucchi
2	Seabilwe Tilodi	South Africa	"Seabilwe is a GIS specialist with a background in geology and agroclimatology working at Kartoza. She is passionate about the application of open-source software and open data to solve complex problems. She does awesome work training on open-source software such as QGIS, in particular for high school students and teachers. She is one of the organizers of the QGIS Open Day virtual event series where she takes care of the social media outreach. Many of you will remember her from FOSS4G 2022 where she presented a lightning talk on ""Classroom GIS in South Africa"". Her numerous contributions to the QGIS contributor meeting in the lead up to FOSS4G were extremely valuable." Profile: Seabilwe Tilodi	Anita Graser
3	Tomas Holderness	United Kingdom	"Tomas is an active member of the open geospatial community and has spoken at every FOSS4G global event since 2016 and FOSS4G UK in 2019.  Tomas is a recognised leader in serverless computing for geospatial and has spoken and blogged extensively on the subject at FOSS4G and Geomob events as well as on podcasts.  Tomas is the CTO of Addresscloud a business providing services to the insurance industry based on open source geospatial technology, sponsors of FOSS4G UK 2019, OSGeo in 2021 and FOSS4G Firenze in 2022." Profile: Tomas Holderness	Mark Varley
4	Besfort Guri	Kosovo	"It is my pleasur to nominate Besfort Guri as OSGeo Charter Member. Besfort is active in OSGeo since some years now. Besfort Guri is heavily involved in FLOSSK which is the local OSGeo Chapter for Kosovo since 2020 (https://www.osgeo.org/local-chapters/osgeo-kosovo/) Besfort is a member of FLOSSK since 2009 as well as the President of the Executive Board at FLOSSK. Besfort leads OSGeo and OSM local chapters in Kosovo. Besfort was part of the organizing team of different conferences. He is in the FOSS4G 2022 organizing committee that will invite the community to Prizren, Kosovo. He runs a small company focused on Geographical Information System and Web Development. " Profile: Besfort Guri	Astrid Emde
5	Markus Mayr	Austria	""Markus is a long time and very active member of the OpenStreetMap community organizing the OSM meetup (Stammtisch) in Vienna as chair of the OSM Austria LocalChapter. The OSM meetup is also the place for the Viennese FOSSGIS members, the German local chapter of OSGeo, to meet. Markus is organizing the presentation of OSGeo related projects at mainly Austrian GIS-specific events like the GI_Salzburg (formerly AGIT)."" Profile: Markus Mayr Wiki: Markus Mayr	Stephan Meißl
6	Darafei Praliaskouski	Belarus	""Darafei is a long time PostGIS and OpenStreetMap contributor.  He is also a member of the PostGIS project steering committee.  He is an active speaker in FOSS4G conferences and code sprints, OSM conferences, and PostgreSQL conferences. In addition to being an invaluable member of the PostGIS development team, he also reports bugs and tries to help out with pgRouting, GEOS, and GDAL projects. He has encouraged several of his staff to get involved in open source, in particular with PostGIS, PostgreSQL, and GEOS."" Profile: Darafei Praliaskouski	Regina Obe