<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I'll post it. <DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hey webcom, could you guys post this nomination text for me?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>And hopefully QA it a bit before posting it?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>If anyone (webcom or board) could review to make sure I got all relevant snippets and spelled things right, that would be great.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>And if you webcom guys want to reformat it or adjust things, go for it.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I just used Open Office, and had troubles with my paragraphs going all the way across the screen, so things may be a bit weird.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>But I checked it on ie and firefox, and it seemed to look ok.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Oh, and webcom, if you reply to this, please remember the (*cough*) collaboration feature and be sure to cc me in the reply, since I'm not on this list.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">best regards,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Chris</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Chris Holmes</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The Open Planning Project</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">thoughts at: <A href="http://cholmes.wordpress.com">http://cholmes.wordpress.com</A></DIV> <TABLE width="1895" border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="page-break-before: always"> <COL width="216"> <COL width="260"> <COL width="740"> <COL width="644"> <THEAD><TR valign="TOP"><TH width="216" bgcolor="#000080"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#ffffff"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Name</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> </TH><TH width="260" bgcolor="#000080"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#ffffff"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Nominator, Seconds</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> </TH><TH width="740" bgcolor="#000080"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#ffffff"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Nomination Text</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> </TH><TH width="644" bgcolor="#000080"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#ffffff"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Seconds Text</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> </TH></TR></THEAD> <TBODY><TR valign="TOP"><TD width="216" bgcolor="#4d4d4d"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#ffffff"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Jody Garnett</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> </TD><TD width="260" bgcolor="#ffffff"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Cameron Shorter, Frank Warmerdam</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> </TD><TD width="740" bgcolor="#ffffff"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">I'd like to nominate Jody Garnett for the OSGeo Board. <BR><BR>Jody sits across many of the java based OS GIS projects: <BR>He is the OSGeo representative, PMC member and developer for Geotools, <BR>He is the architect and team lead for UDig, <BR>He is a developer on Geoserver, <BR>In the OGC he is involved with GeoAPI and improving OGC standards (especially during the OWS3 testbed), <BR>He has been hacking Geospatial code for over 10 years and currently works for Refractions Research. <BR><BR>Jody's commitment to Open Source, GIS and building communities ooses out of him, which is why I strongly recommend him for the board. </FONT></FONT></FONT> </P> </TD><TD width="644" bgcolor="#cccccc"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Folks, <BR><BR>I would like to second this nominations since Cameron beat me to it. <BR><BR> - Frank Warmerdam</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> </TD></TR><TR valign="TOP"><TD rowspan="2" width="216" bgcolor="#4d4d4d"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#ffffff"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Michael Gerleck</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> </TD><TD rowspan="2" width="260" bgcolor="#ffffff"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Chris Holmes, Gary Lang, self</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> </TD><TD rowspan="2" width="740" bgcolor="#ffffff"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">I had never met or heard of Michael before the meeting in Chicago, but I found his contributions and advice to be incredibly valuable. He played a key role in helping to figure out the initial governance bootstrapping, and since has followed up with solid contributions to the wiki and sounding in on the irc channel. I think he would continue to provide a very reasoned and well thought out voice in the continued bootstrapping of the foundation. <BR><BR>He could also prove a great resource on the board as an ambassador to proprietary software vendors to build on technologies like GDAL, OSSIM, GeoTools and FDO, a role he's excited about. And I'm happy to nominate him despite a short track record of os geo software experience, since he already seems quite committed to helping out and spreading OSGeo, regardless of the outcome. </FONT></FONT></FONT> </P> </TD><TD width="644" bgcolor="#cccccc"> <PRE style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-align: left; text-decoration: none"><FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Seconded. - Gary Lang</FONT></FONT></FONT></PRE> </TD></TR><TR><TD width="644" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#cccccc"> <PRE><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3"><snip></FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">My "agenda", then, is to make sure we reach out to that part of the </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">geo community that is today just trying to build good products and </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">make some money -- to get them to understand the business proposition </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">of the reuse and quality value in existing open source geo packages. </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">To teach them that they can use open source internally and within </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">their products, without necessarily having to give up their IP or </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">open up their entire product line. To teach them about the value of </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">submitting patches back, and to consider donating some money or </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">manpower to these projects. Later still, perhaps, to consider opening </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">up some of their own lesser projects, and to go on the record about </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">their use and support of open source software.</FONT></FONT>
<FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3"></snip></FONT></FONT></FONT>
<FONT color="#000000"> <FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">full text at: </FONT></FONT></FONT>
<FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3"><A href="https://mail.osgeo.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=discuss&msgNo=260"><FONT size="3"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace">https://mail.osgeo.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=discuss&msgNo=260</FONT></FONT></A></FONT></FONT></FONT>
<FONT color="#000000"> <FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">- Michael Gerleck</FONT></FONT></FONT></PRE> </TD></TR><TR valign="TOP"><TD width="216" bgcolor="#4d4d4d"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#ffffff"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Ned Horning</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> </TD><TD width="260" bgcolor="#ffffff"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Tyler Mitchell, Frank Warmerdam</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> </TD><TD width="740" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <PRE style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-align: left; text-decoration: none"><FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Ned works in the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation for the American </FONT></FONT></FONT>
<FONT size="3"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace">Museum of Natural History (</FONT></FONT><A href="http://cbc.amnh.org/"><FONT size="3"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace">http://cbc.amnh.org/</FONT></FONT></A><FONT size="3"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace">) as program manager for </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">remote sensing and GIS. He is an active promoter of open source geospatial </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">tools in the global conservation community, including the development of </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">teaching materials using these tools. He sees the bigger picture from an </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">end-user perspective and has plenty of ideas for how he would like to see </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">them come together for the greater good. I believe more of this perspective </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">would be valuable to have on the board and help ensure that the overall </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">direction of the foundation is geared toward productive end use of our </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">products. He is active in the conservation domain which has great need for </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">OSGeo tools. He is a likable guy and easy to get along with - his vision and </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">enthusiasm are encouraging. He is doing some great stuff...</FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">For further background I quote Gary Geller's nomination for Ned from </FONT></FONT>
<A href="https://webcommittee.osgeo.org/MembershipNominations.html"><FONT size="3"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace">https://webcommittee.osgeo.org/MembershipNominations.html</FONT></FONT></A>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">"...Ned is the Remote Sensing and GIS Program Manager for the American Museum </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">of Natural History’s Center for Biodiversity Conservation (CBC). He has </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">explicitly included the development and promotion of open source geospatial </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">software in his work plan to have the necessary institutional support to </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">continue to support this work as part of his professional duties. </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">He has been closely following free and open source geospatial software </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">development for over 10 years and has actively participated in a number of </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">projects: Currently funding feature development for OpenEV. Added geospatial </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">capabilities to NIH Image to support a NASA education project – A Mac </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">application that has since been superseded by ImageJ. </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Participated in the NASA Image2000 software project that was eventually going</FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">to be released to the open source community although the funding plug got </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">pulled and the project abruptly stopped. Secured money for QGIS development </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">starting in the spring of 2006. Teaches week-long remote sensing courses using </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">only free and open source software.”</FONT></FONT></PRE> </TD><TD width="644" bgcolor="#cccccc"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">I would like to second Ned's nomination. </FONT></FONT></FONT></P><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Ned has a thoughtful vision of where open source geospatial applications can go, and has worked to making them get there. </FONT></FONT></FONT> </P> </TD></TR><TR valign="TOP"><TD rowspan="3" width="216" bgcolor="#4d4d4d"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#ffffff"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Mark Lucas</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> </TD><TD rowspan="3" width="260" bgcolor="#ffffff"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Frank Warmerdam, Gary Lang, Ned Horning, Pericles Nacionales</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> </TD><TD rowspan="3" width="740" bgcolor="#ffffff"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Mark has been a supporter of Open Source for many years, and launched <BR>the RemoteSensing.org portal back in 1999 or so. For me, the facilities <BR>and community focus it provided was pivotal in launch of GDAL. Mark <BR>also launched the OSSIM project and held together his team after they <BR>migrated out of ImageLinks. Mark has good contacts in the US federal <BR>government, and is helping to bring open source methodologies into some <BR>groups there. <BR><BR>Also telling was a comment Mark made in the Chicago meeting. He stressed <BR>that we were all there because we wanted to find a way of making what <BR>we love to do (writing/using open source geospatial software) sustainable. <BR>I think he has the organizational smarts, contacts, enthusiasm and <BR>perseverance to held us accomplish that as a foundation. </FONT></FONT></FONT> </P> </TD><TD width="644" bgcolor="#cccccc"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Second - Gary Lang</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> </TD></TR><TR><TD width="644" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#cccccc"> <PRE style="text-align: left"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3"><SPAN style="font-weight: medium"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none"><SPAN style="font-style: normal"><FONT color="#000000">Well said. I'd like to echo your support for the nomination of Mark </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3"><SPAN style="font-weight: medium"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none"><SPAN style="font-style: normal"><FONT color="#000000">to the </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>board. I don't know him well but have noted all of the </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">qualities you mention through personal communication, his </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">participation in RemoteSensing.org and OSSIM, and the Open Source </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Geospatial meetings. He seems to be a good compliment to the existing </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">board.</FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">- Ned Horning<SPAN style="font-weight: medium"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none"><SPAN style="font-style: normal"><FONT color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></PRE> </TD></TR><TR><TD width="644" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#cccccc"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">I second this nomination. +1 <BR><BR>-Perry </FONT></FONT></FONT> </P> </TD></TR><TR valign="TOP"><TD width="216" bgcolor="#4d4d4d"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#ffffff"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Helena Mitasova</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> </TD><TD width="260" bgcolor="#ffffff"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Markus Neteler, Ari Jolma</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> </TD><TD width="740" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <PRE style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-align: left; text-decoration: none"><FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Helena is in Open Source GIS since the '80s and a strong and long term</FONT></FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">contributor not only to the GRASS GIS project, but to Open Source</FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">geospatial technologies in general. I know Helena for 10 years, others</FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">in this forum maybe for even longer.</FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">She provides a valuable link to academia and also brings perspective</FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">from academia. Not just North Carolina State University, but she meets</FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">with people from other universities as well, including Michael</FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Goodchild. She wants to promote OSGeo in UCGIS - University Consortium</FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">for GIScience), and can also bring some insight into US government</FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">sponsored GIS-research (federal and NC state). She can provide</FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">connections to East Europe, too.</FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">She wants to contribute to the core curriculum project of OSGeo and</FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">has a lot of experience with graduate students from a great variety of</FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">disciplines, from engineering, natural resources, computer science,</FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">geography.</FONT></FONT></PRE> </TD><TD width="644" bgcolor="#cccccc"> <PRE style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-align: left; text-decoration: none"><FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Seconded.</FONT></FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Ari</FONT></FONT></PRE><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <BR> </P> </TD></TR><TR valign="TOP"><TD rowspan="4" width="216" bgcolor="#4d4d4d"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#ffffff"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Dave McIhagga</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> </TD><TD rowspan="4" width="260" bgcolor="#ffffff"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Frank Warmerdam, Jason Birch, Gary Lang, Tyler Mitchell, Pericles Nacionales</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> </TD><TD rowspan="4" width="740" bgcolor="#ffffff"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">I have known Dave since around 1997 when he, Daniel Morissette and I <BR>all worked for PCI. When he and Daniel struck out on their own he already <BR>had a great client service ethic. But over the following few years he <BR>also came to appreciate the transformative power of Open Source in his <BR>own business and in providing his clients better value and quality. <BR><BR>Since then the name DM Solutions has become synonymous with open source and <BR>he has become a prophet of the benefits of MapServer and Open Source around the world. His efforts on the OSGIS'04 conference, and his support for <BR>MapServer and MapTools.org have also been appreciated by the community. <BR><BR>Dave has great experience in selling the value of open source geospatial <BR>technologies in the hard edged business world. He also has community <BR>building skills, and a willingness to do the right thing even if it not <BR>the most expedient for his own business needs. <BR><BR>Dave played a critical role in the launch of OSGeo, and I look forward <BR>keeping his nose to the grindstone to help make it a big success. <BR></FONT></FONT></FONT><BR> </P> </TD><TD width="644" bgcolor="#cccccc"> <PRE style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-align: left; text-decoration: none"><FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Seconded - Jason Birch</FONT></FONT></FONT></PRE> </TD></TR><TR><TD width="644" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#cccccc"> <PRE style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-align: left; text-decoration: none"><FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">I second the nomination.</FONT></FONT></FONT>
<FONT color="#000000"> <FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">- Gary Lang</FONT></FONT></FONT></PRE> </TD></TR><TR><TD width="644" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#cccccc"> <PRE style="text-align: left"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3"><SPAN style="font-weight: medium"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none"><SPAN style="font-style: normal"><FONT color="#000000">I agree wholeheartedly - Dave has helped fill critical needs in the </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3"><SPAN style="font-weight: medium"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none"><SPAN style="font-style: normal"><FONT color="#000000">osgeo </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>community and was key in launching the foundation initiative. </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">I would really like to see him on the board to help provide his </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">insights, ideas and management skills. I have presented alongside </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Dave at various conferences and kicked many ideas around with him </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">over the past few years - it is always a pleasure to work with him.</FONT></FONT>
<FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Tyler</FONT></FONT></FONT></PRE> </TD></TR><TR><TD width="644" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#cccccc"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">I second that! <BR><BR>-Perry </FONT></FONT></FONT> </P> </TD></TR><TR valign="TOP"><TD rowspan="2" width="216" bgcolor="#4d4d4d"> <PRE style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-align: left; text-decoration: none"><FONT color="#ffffff"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Venkatesh Raghavan</FONT></FONT></FONT></PRE> </TD><TD rowspan="2" width="260" bgcolor="#ffffff"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3"><SPAN style="font-weight: medium"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none"><SPAN style="font-style: normal"><FONT color="#000000">Markus Neteler, Jeff McKenna, Helena Mitasova</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P> </TD><TD rowspan="2" width="740" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <PRE style="text-align: left"><FONT size="3"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace">I am honored to nominate Dr. Venkatesh Raghavan </FONT></FONT>
<FONT size="3"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace">(</FONT></FONT><A href="http://www.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/%7Eraghavan/indexe.html"><FONT size="3"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace">http://www.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/~raghavan/indexe.html</FONT></FONT></A><FONT size="3"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace">), </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">professor at Osaka City University in Japan, for one of the </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">OSGeo board of directors seats.</FONT></FONT>
<FONT size="3"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace">Venka is well known in Asia for his promotion of FOSS4G. He co-ordinated the </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">successful FOSS/GRASS 2004 International conference in Bangkok, Thailand </FONT></FONT>
<FONT size="3"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace">(</FONT></FONT><A href="http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grass04/"><FONT size="3"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace">http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grass04/</FONT></FONT></A><FONT size="3"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace">).</FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Preceeding this conference Jeff McKenna from DM Solutions and me (I was </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">awarded a fellowship from Venka to come to Japan and hold a couple of seminars </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">in FOSS geomatics) came to Osaka to join the discussions. It was there in </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Bangkok then, over a few drinks, that initial discussions of a joint </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">international FOSS geomatics conference for 2006 were discussed, in particular </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">by Venka, Dave McIlhagga, Jeff and me. But I can honestly say that it was </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Venka's passion for FOSS geomatics that got the ball rolling. A very </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">personable person, Venka has a way of setting you at ease, that hopefully all </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">of you will get to experience.</FONT></FONT>
<FONT size="3"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace">Venka has been a big promoter of FOSS geomatics in the Asian market. He has </FONT></FONT>
<FONT size="3"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace">personally contributed to FOSS by being instrumental in bringing international </FONT></FONT>
<FONT size="3"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace">character support (i18N) to GRASS and MapServer (see </FONT></FONT><A href="http://www.foss4g.org/"><FONT size="3"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace">http://www.foss4g.org/</FONT></FONT></A><FONT size="3"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace">), </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">writing a tutorial as well as creating FOSS4G installers for Mandrake Linux </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">(including a MapServer/MapLab rpm available on maptools.org).</FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Venka possesses a passion for FOSS geomatics, and, after discussing this with </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Jeff McKenna, we both feel that he would be a great asset to have on the board.</FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Venka is currently traveling through Vietnam and Thailand, but he has said that </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">when he returns he is excited to take more of an active role in the OSGeo </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">discussions.</FONT></FONT></PRE> </TD><TD width="644" bgcolor="#cccccc"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">I second the nomination. As mentioned by Markus, it was Venka's vision that brought (and will bring) the GRASS and MapServer communities together initially. He is already a respected voice in SE Asia for FOSS4G, and his voice would be even stronger with a seat on the board. <BR><BR>Having travelled to SE Asia, I can tell you that I was surprised and impressed with how vibrant and active the FOSS4G community is there. It's for this reason that I think this is an important nomination. </FONT></FONT></FONT> </P><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#000000"> <FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">- Jeff McKenna</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> </TD></TR><TR><TD width="644" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#cccccc"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">I second Venka's nomination too. - Helena Mitasova</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> </TD></TR><TR valign="TOP"><TD rowspan="2" width="216" bgcolor="#4d4d4d"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#ffffff"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Jo Walsh</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> </TD><TD rowspan="2" width="260" bgcolor="#ffffff"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Jason Birch, Schuyler Earle, Tyler Mitchell</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> </TD><TD rowspan="2" width="740" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <PRE style="text-align: left"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3"><SPAN style="font-weight: medium"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none"><SPAN style="font-style: normal"><FONT color="#000000">Jo Walsh is a respected member of the open geospatial community, </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT>
<FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">with a strong involvement in open data.</FONT></FONT></FONT>
<A href="http://frot.org/"><FONT size="3"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace">http://frot.org/</FONT></FONT></A>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">I feel honoured to nominate Jo for consideration in the upcoming OSGeo </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">board elections.</FONT></FONT></PRE> </TD><TD width="644" bgcolor="#cccccc"> <PRE style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-align: left; text-decoration: none"><FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">Seconded. </FONT></FONT></FONT>
<FONT color="#000000"> <FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">- Schuyler Earle</FONT></FONT></FONT></PRE> </TD></TR><TR><TD width="644" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#cccccc"> <PRE><FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">I second that as well. Jo is level-headed and has been looking out </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">for the end users and public in general, particularly with her </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">advocacy for open data, but certainly not limited to this. Whether </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">it's natural or not, she appears to be a natural organiser for </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">bringing together people of like mind for the greater good. I also </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">believe she can see the bigger picture of how tools, processes, data, </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">etc. can all be tied together into a more cohesive infrastructure for </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">future possibilities - that is something that I think we could all </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">appreciate. </FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New, monospace"><FONT size="3">-Tyler Mitchell</FONT></FONT></PRE> </TD></TR><TR valign="TOP"><TD width="216" bgcolor="#4d4d4d"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <BR> </P> </TD><TD width="260" bgcolor="#cccccc"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <BR> </P> </TD><TD width="740" bgcolor="#cccccc"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <BR> </P> </TD><TD width="644" bgcolor="#cccccc"><P align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <BR> </P> </TD></TR></TBODY> </TABLE><P><BR><BR> </P> <SPAN><DIV><cholmes.vcf></DIV></SPAN><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">---------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To unsubscribe, e-mail: <A href="mailto:board-unsubscribe@board.osgeo.org">board-unsubscribe@board.osgeo.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">For additional commands, e-mail: <A href="mailto:board-help@board.osgeo.org">board-help@board.osgeo.org</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>