New Member Nominations 2011

The list of nominees for the 2011 Charter Member Election is maintained by the Chief Returning Officer (cro at osgeo.org).

To submit a charter member nominations please follow the process described in the Election_2011#Charter_Member_Election page.

Name	Country	Notes
Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses	Spain	From: Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas I want to nominate Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses (1)(2) for the Charter Member election. Pedro-Juan has been really active at OSGeo and specially OSGeo Spanish Language Local Chapter (OSGeo-es) for the last years. He is member of the Board of Directors of OSGeo-es and the Liason Officer between the LC and the Foundation since the beginning of the LC. He is also giving a hand at our new group at Valencia area so his is workin from local to global, I think we need more active profiles like him at the Charter Membership, also to increase the voice of the Spanish spoken world at OSGeo. I hope you consider my nomination, even after watching the video :-)
Suchith Anand	UK	From: Jo Cook I would like to nominate Suchith Anand as an OSGeo Charter Member. His tireless enthusiasm in promoting OSGeo in the UK has been immensely beneficial to the UK chapter. His work to promote open source geospatial software use in education (see http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/) is of great importance and benefit to OSGeo globally. Furthermore, his work securing an MOU between OSGeo and the Centre for Geospatial Sciences at the University of Nottingham, and more recently with the International Cartographic Association should be recognised. Suchith is exactly the sort of pro-active, enthusiastic person that we need in OSGeo!
Brian Case	USA - Oregon	From: Brian Hamlin (Darkblue_b) Brian Case is always known as winkey on IRC. He is a GDAL committer, writing the LibKML OGR driver. Winkey has processed and made freely available the only known complete set of US NAIP Ariel Imagery as a community resource; built an open source weather visualization tool and has built many high performance imagery pipelines. Winkey regularly volunteers in emergency response situations, including excellent work on Hurricane Katrina and the Haiti Earthquake. Winkey is currently working on an open source MODIS imagery processing pipeline, and continues to be active in weather tech.
Sanghee Shin	Korea	From: Arnulf Christl I have the pleasure of nominating Mr. Sanghee Shin [1] [2] from Korea as new OSGeo Charter Member. Sanghee has come a long way with Open Source, first using GRASS during his studies, later coming back to image processing and now using, promoting and developing it in his own company. He is founding member of the OSGeo Korean Local Chapter [3] [4] a prominent organization with 180 registered members (10-2011) and a lively community [5]. This year the Local Chapter presentes OSGeo with a booth at SmartKorea 2011 [6], the Korean trade fair for geospatial software, data and surveying. Booth space and equipment was kindly provided by Mr. Shin's company GRIDA [7]. This fall the OSGeo Local Chapter of Korea organized their first FOSS4G Local Chapter event [2] in Seoul, again under the lead of Sanghee. Mori-san, Yoshida-san from the FOSS4G Japan Local Chapter Chapter and myself were invited to give keynote presentations at the event with about 60 attendees and a dozen presentations about software, business models and use cases. Mr. Shin will be a great addition to the Charter Membership, invigorate our Asian connection and help to spread word and raise interest in our next FOSS4G in Beijing which is more or less just around the corner (at least seen from here...). [1] https://twitter.com/#!/endofcap [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Endofcap [3] Korean: http://www.osgeo.kr/ [4] English: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Korea [5] http://groups.google.com/group/osgeo-kr/topics [6] http://grida.kr/en/business/business.html
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