Board Member Nominations 2017
The Board Member nomination (part of the Election 2017) will be open from 2017-09-25 to 2017-10-08 (two weeks). The list of nominees for the 2017 Board Member Election is maintained by the Chief Returning Officer (cro at osgeo.org). This page is write protected and can only be edited by SysOps.
The following nominations have been received for the OSGeo Board in 2017 through the Election 2017 process.
- The nomination period ends on 08 October 2017.
- This list is presented in the order nominations were received.
- Candidate statements and support by OSGeo participants or members, if they have been provided, are linked to immediately after the candidate name as a bulleted list.
María Arias de Reyna
- Nomination by Jeff McKenna
It is my pleasure and honour to nominate María Arias de Reyna[1] for the Board of Directors of OSGeo. You may remember that I nominated María last year for the Board, but since then she has gone on to give several great keynote talks at various events around the world, bringing much-needed discussions of diversity and sharing to the forefront of events.
María is well known in the OSGeo community for her relentless efforts as a core contributor for the GeoNetwork project, and for her longtime contributions to the SIG Libre conference (the Spanish FOSS4G). Locally she is very active through the OSGeo microchapter network Geoinquietos, and more recently also through the Spanish national geomatics association, AESIG. She works for GeoCat providing SDI solutions all over the world.
So you can see, María is a leader locally, nationally, and internationally. You can often find her live-tweeting[2] at every FOSS4G event, and sharing her passion for all things OSGeo. I see in her a very strong voice, full of youthful energy and passion, and a true leader that is absolutely ready for the global spotlight.
Please show your support for María, and help to bring her passion to the Board of the OSGeo foundation.
Support
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- Seconded by: Jeffrey Johnson, Dirk Frigne, Steven Feldman, Arne Schubert, Maurico Miranda, Mayte Tuscano, Marco Lechner, Suchith Anand, Just van den Broecke, Jorge Sanz
Astrid Emde
- Nomination by Venkatesh Raghavan & Jeff McKenna
It gives us great pleasure to nominate Astrid Emde as a member of the OSGeo Board.
Astrid [1] needs no introduction for most in our community; for the few who may not yet be fully aware of Astrid’s contributions, she is an (hyper) active member of OSGeo for many years. She is a PSC member of the Mapbender [2] and OSGeo Live projects [3]. Apart from being a regular contributor at global and regional FOSS4G conferences, Astrid is the force behind the German language OSGeo Local Chapter FOSSGIS e.V. [4] ever since its inception. She is also involved in showcasing OSGeo at mega-events like INTERGEO [5] and scientific conferences like AGIT [6].
Astrid relentlessly promotes OSGeo by organizing community events, code sprints, workshops on a variety of OSGeo software, and documentation/translation. More recently, her excellent communication skills are being put to effective use in our Marketing Committee.
We would like to thank Astrid for kindly agreeing to spare her time for the added responsibility of serving the OSGeo Foundation as a member of the Board.
- https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Astrid_Emde
- http://www.mapbender.org/
- https://live.osgeo.org/
- https://www.fossgis.de/
- http://www.intergeo.de/intergeo-en/
- http://www.agit.at/
Support
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- Seconded by: Anita Graser, Jody Garnett, Maria Brovelli, Marc Vloemans, Cameron Shorter, Dirk Frigne, Markus Neteler, Jachym Cepicky, Steven Feldman, Scott Clark, Werner Leyh, Vicky Vergara, Codrina Maria Ilie, Marco Lechner, Suchith Anand, Just van den Broecke, Jorge Sanz
Venkatesh Raghavan
- Nomination by Angelos Tzotsos
It is my pleasure and honor to nominate our President Venka Raghavan[1], from Japan, for re-election for the OSGeo Board of Directors. Venka's contributions to FOSS and FOSS4G are inspiring to our community. He is the 2012 winner of the Sol Katz Award, he created the term “FOSS4G” back in 2004, using it as the name of an international event in Thailand, and since then he has promoted FOSS4G all over the globe.
Venka has also been directly involved in OSGeo since its inception, in fact he was on the first OSGeo Board of Directors from 2006 to 2007. He is also a long-time board member of the OSGeo Japan chapter. He has served the OSGeo community for the last 2 years with great commitment and passion from the position of the President.
A professor at Osaka City University in Japan, Venka constantly encourages his students to leverage FOSS4G in all of their research. His influence in Asia wide reaching, being easily the most influential FOSS4G leader there. Venka also helps organize the GIS-IDEAS Symposium every 2 years in Vietnam, which is always FOSS4G-based.
Venka is happy to be a part of the OSGeo Board again, helping the foundation that he helped form at the beginning. So please welcome back Venka to the Board of Directors.
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