New Member Nominations 2024
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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
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| 1 | Youssef Harby | Egypt | Youssef has been contributing to several FOSS/OSgeo projects and he is a great advocate for the use of FOSS4G technologies in Egypt. Youssef has participated in community events such as the OSGeo/OGC/ASF Joint Code Sprint and the FOSS4G Europe conference, and he has the intention and the energy to organise something in his region.
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Joana Simões |
| 2 | Matthias Daues | Germany | Matthias is a very enthusiastic advocate of OpenSource / Free Software in general and of FOSS4G in particular. He is a long-time user of many classic OSGeo components and has a focus on databases, where PostGIS & pgRouting are exemplarily very close to his heart. Both in his daily work within a large German communications service provider and in his private life, it is a pleasure to listen to him talk about the possibilities and opportunities that arise from the use and further development of open source. He has spoken about the software he loves and the solutions he has helped to build at the conference FOSSGIS (from the German.speaking local chapter of OSGeo). It would be a great enrichment for the community to welcome him as an OSGeo charter member.
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Marc Jansen
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| 3 | Petr Ševčík | Germany | Petr has been part of the FOSS4G community since 2018 and has attended multiple FOSS4G conferences since then as both speaker as well as session chair. He is a specialist in radar data and a skilled software engineer as well as cartographer using any geo-related Open Source package in the Python world he can get his hands onto. He mainly contributed to SAR related open source tools.
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Joachim Ungar
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| 4 | Edouard Choinière | Canada | Edouard joined the GRASS GIS project recently and became an integral part regarding CI, unit tests, module and library improvements, bug fixing and much more here and there. :-) By joining GRASS GIS community sprints, he confirmed his spirit of open source (GIS) software development and community. | Helmut Kudrnovsky
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| 5 | Bill Dollins | United States of America | Bill Dollins, has been a member of OSGEO US since 2014. As a consultant, he has delivered solutions based on open-source geospatial software since 2006 - mostly PostGIS, GDAL, GeoServer, and QGIS, but not limited to those. Bill has been very involved in helping to find financial support for OSGeo projects he works with and for the OSGeo US chapter's activities. During his time at a commercial SaaS company, he convinced his company to sponsor QGIS due to its heavy usage. In 2023, he was on the organizing committee for FOSS4G North America (Baltimore). In 2024, he was a co-chair and sponsor for FedGeoDay in Washington, DC - focused on government use cases for open-source geospatial. He was also on the steering and sponsorship committees for the 2024 FOSS4G North America (St. Louis). Bill is a valuable team member for the OSGeo community because of his advocacy for using open source geospatial tools in US government agencies as well as the commercial sector.
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Michele Tobias
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| 6 | Caitlin Haedrich | United States of America | Caitlin joined the GRASS GIS project some time ago, improved the GRASS-Jupyter-coupling. By joining GRASS GIS community sprints and educating open source GIS in the last years, she confirmed her spirit of open source GIS software development and community.
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Helmut Kudrnovsky
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