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 to FOSS4G and the Bolsena hacking event as well. [0] http://osgeo.nl [1] http://heron-mc.org [2] http://www.stetl.org/en/latest/
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/