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