<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I would like to nominate Andrew Ross for a position on the OSGeo Board.<br><br>Andrew brings a balanced mix of valuable technical and business skills which make him a great choice to become an OSGeo board member. His experience spans private, public, and academic organizations. He has been involved with OSGeo for five years, and has been a charter member of OSGeo for the past 3 years. In this time he has demonstrated considerable commitment to OSGeo, its projects, and organizations in the OSGeo ecosystem.<br><br>This list represents some of Andrew's experience and qualifications and experience relevant to his nomination:<br><br>- Founder of FOSSLC (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fosslc.org/">http://fosslc.org</a>) - a non-profit organization dedicated to education and business development with open source technologies<br>- Director of Ecosystems at the Eclipse Foundation<br>- Ingres' Director of Engineering (& Geospatial Technology)<br> - The development team at Ingres under his leadership contributed to OSGeo projects including GEOS, GDAL/OGR, Proj.4, and others.<br> - He arranged considerable financial support for OSGeo from Ingres, both direct (cash & code contributions) and indirect (contracting people to make contributions to OSGeo projects).<br>- Project founder, committer/architect for the open source video recording & streaming suite called Freeseer<br>- Organized multiple OSGeo related events including Geocamp 2008, Summercamp 2009, and a number of bootcamps.<br>- Organized teams to record videos for past OSGeo events including FOSS4G2009, Rendez-Vous OSGeo Quebec, and more.<br>- Mentor for dozens of programming interns as part of the Google Summer of Code, Talent First Network, UCOSP, and other student programs.<br>- Teaching Programming using open source technologies at Carleton University since 2006<br>- 7 years experience as an architect and software developer at Nortel creating carrier grade products and services based on open source code<br>- Very active member of the Ottawa OSGeo Chapter<br><br>In addition to his considerable personal experience, Andrew's work with the Eclipse Foundation, FOSSLC, and other organizations provides access to an enormous amount of experience, specialized skills, and a wealth of contacts. His addition to the board would create even more opportunities for technology sharing/development and valuable business development.<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Dave</div></body></html>