I hereby nominate <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Even_Rouault" target="_blank">Even Rouault</a> as an OSGeo charter member. <br>Even has been contributing to various software projects promoted by OSGeo (ie. GDAL, MapServer, Proj.4, libgeotiff, shapelib, libtiff) since 2006. He is a commiter of MapServer and GDAL, the maintainer of various drivers, the Java bindings and the member of the Project Steering Committee of GDAL since 2007. Even has already demonstrated his expertise and deep knowledge in the projects he is working on and he also provide valuable support for the users and developers on the related mailing lists, IRC channels and the trac. In addition to provide community support by fixing various issues throughout the entire project, he is one of the greatest innovator providing new functionalities and authoring several new drivers in GDAL/OGR, you've probably already utilized these in the related OSGeo projects as well. <br>
In addition to his development work, Even is also a leading figure in the QA testing of GDAL by increasing the <a href="http://even.rouault.free.fr/" target="_blank">test coverage</a> of it's Python test suite. Let us consider to appreciate his work by electing him as a charter member!<br>
<br>Best regards,<br><br>Tamas<br>