On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
So in interests of speed, I nominate everyone on this list who has read this far down this email.<br>
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Could we please see some acceptance emails which include a paragraph or 2 about yourself and your OSGeo interests.</blockquote><div><br>I'm happy to accept the nomination.<br>
<br>I'm 27 and Auckland, New Zealand is my home. <br><br>I'm a software engineer and CTO of Koordinates, a new online spatial data startup. We're passionate about getting geodata out there - discoverable and accessible. Particularly government data and data from companies who traditionally throw it in a filing cabinet. Before Koordinates I worked at Navman in their car navigation group. <br>
<br>In Open Source development: I'm a committer and active developer for the Dojo Toolkit (a Javascript framework), and have organised their Summer of Code programme for the last two years and am mentoring some students this year as well. Other than that I contribute fixes, bugs, patches, and suggestions into any project I stumble upon.<br>
<br>We're an open source spatial shop - I work with Postgis, GEOS, GDAL, Mapnik, OpenLayers, PROJ, TileCache, and GeoDjango on a daily basis, and monitor other projects too. I've been pushing with Simon on getting LINZ cadastral & topo data into OpenStreetMap via nzopengis.<br>
<br></div></div>I'm involved in the NZ web & technology scene and user groups for Django & Python in NZ, and am an ambassador for FutureInTech, a programme encouraging school students to take up careers in technology which involves speaking to school groups and working with them on projects. Occasionally I'll stumble into the University and give a guest lecture on digital geography, software engineering, and OSS topics. <br>
<br>Rob Coup<br><br>blog - <a href="http://rob.coup.net.nz/">http://rob.coup.net.nz/</a><br>work - <a href="http://koordinates.com/">http://koordinates.com/</a><br><br>