Difference between revisions of "New Member Nominations 2023"

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"Niene is the current chairperson for the Dutch local chapter of OSGeo, known as OSGeo.NL. She’s a frequent visitor and speaker at the FOSS4G events, both international and local (see her webpage at https://nieneb.nl/talks/ for some examples).
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Niene was also the driving force behind the maptime events in the Netherlands, is one of the few people I know that easily blends coding with great design (most of her talks are about visualization, and those that aren’t are still visually stunning) and is a real role-model and activist for getting more women in geo-related tech in the Netherlands.
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Oh, and of course it’s all open source. And did I mention she’s also a great human being?"
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* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/boeijen/ Niene Boeijen]
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Revision as of 16:39, 4 October 2023

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
1 Javier Jiménez Shaw Germany

"Javier is deeply knowledgeable about geodesy, and has presented two talks at FOSS4G2023. He's made contributions to PROJ and GDAL, and has already been asked to be part of the project steering committee (PSC) for both projects."

Iván Sánchez Ortega
2 Jan Suleiman Germany

"Jan is one of the driving forces and core developer behind the OSGeo Community Project GeoStyler, and has organised the GeoStyler Code Sprints for the past 2 years. He has presented GeoStyler at FOSS4G 2023 in Prizren, as well as the previous 2 FOSS4Gs.

Jan is a very active full-stack developer in the geospatial community - see his GitHub account at https://github.com/jansule, and is a contributor to other OSGeo projects and community projects including GeoExt."

Seth Girvin
3 Niene Boeijen Netherlands

"Niene is the current chairperson for the Dutch local chapter of OSGeo, known as OSGeo.NL. She’s a frequent visitor and speaker at the FOSS4G events, both international and local (see her webpage at https://nieneb.nl/talks/ for some examples).

Niene was also the driving force behind the maptime events in the Netherlands, is one of the few people I know that easily blends coding with great design (most of her talks are about visualization, and those that aren’t are still visually stunning) and is a real role-model and activist for getting more women in geo-related tech in the Netherlands.

Oh, and of course it’s all open source. And did I mention she’s also a great human being?"

Erik Meerburg