New Member Nominations 2017
The Charter Member nomination (part of the Election 2017) will be open from 2017-08-21 to 2017-09-07. The list of nominees for the 2017 Charter 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.
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
- Also, you might want to reference their OSGeo Advocate profile.
Note for admins: simple script to scrape this page to generate meaningful lines for the electronic voting system
The list of nominees will be maintained by the CRO here:
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| 1 | Arne Schubert | Germany | From: Astrid Emde
I would like to nominate Arne Schubert for OSGeo charter membership. Arne is active in the Mapbender Project & in the YAGA Development Team. He was involved in FOSSGIS events and organized the OSGeo & OSM Subconference at FrOSCon last week. He is a great value for OSGeo, FOSSGIS and FOSS4G. He may get involved in GSoC next year and get involved in OGC Specs. And one thing I do not want to keep secret is that he talks about Docker every day :). |
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| 2 | Tom Chadwin | UK | From: Jo Cook
I would like to nominate Tom Chadwin as a charter member of OSGeo. Tom is the author of QGIS2Web (https://github.com/tomchadwin/qgis2web), which is any incredibly valuable tool, key in enabling a lot of new people to get involved with open source web mapping. Tom is also an extremely valuable member of the OSGeo community in the UK, successfully promoting open source geospatial use in his National Park Authority and beyond. |
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| 3 | Torben Barsballe | Canada | From: Jody Garnett
Torben Barsballe is an amazing addition to the Java Tribe, in just a few short years Torben is one of the top committers[1] on the GeoServer project! Torben a dedicated and professional member of our community reviewing pull-requests, participating in code sprints, and taking lead on the occasional monthly release. His dedication shows - even going so far as to attending the bi-weekly PSC meetings (despite not having a vote.). Torben is an advocate for open source, speaking at local Victoria GeoGeek events, regional foss4g-na events, and two global foss4g evetns. Torben is a kind instructor offering workshops at the local University of Victoria, and at the gloabl foss4g events. For foss4g 2017 he painstakingly reviewed the osgeo brochure, manning the OSGeo booth answering questions, and helping new contributors during the code sprint. It is a pleasure to honour such a wonderful member of our community with this nomination. |
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| 4 | Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus | Portugal/Netherlands? | From: Gérald Fenoy, Jachym Cepicky
Dear All, it is a great honor for me to nominate Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus. Jorge is active and recognized for his work for years in the world of FOSS4G. He is currently working at Geocat and is involved in various Open Source ProjectS, amongst them the famous GeoNetwork and PyWPS. Jorge is someone with a clear vision and positive thinking. Jorge attends the FOSS4G on a regular manner and often make presentation and workshop there. I have faith in Jorge and feel that he is someone representative and that will be of big benefit for OSGeo. --Gérald Fenoy I would like to nominate Jorge Mendes de Jesus as new OSGeo charter member. Jorge is long time FOSS4G contributor and member of PyWPS PSC. --Jachym Cepicky |
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