Hi Everyone,<br><br>I have been travelling and this was the first opportunity to send this note.<br><br>I am deeply honoured to be considered for an OSGeo board position. The other nominees are people I greatly respect and if I am worthy enough to be elected, I look forward to working with.<br>
<br>My offering is a good sense and demonstrated track record for pragmatic balance of Industry, community, academia, and government interests. I continue to be excited by opportunities for collaboration between these four pillars. This is both a principle and practice in my life - where I work for an open source company, teach with open source software at a University, and contribute heavily to the open source community.<br>
<br>The education piece is one that I am especially passionate about. As evident in my work with a number of Universities, companies, non-profits, and concerned citizens around the world resulting in significant amount of excellent educational content made available freely from <a href="http://fosslc.org">http://fosslc.org</a>, it is possible to be successful in this area. <br>
<br>Thank you in advance if I am worthy of your vote.<br><br>-- <br>Andrew<br>