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<div class="">On Sep 5, 2017, at 9:20 PM, Sara Safavi <<a href="mailto:sara@sarasafavi.com" class="">sara@sarasafavi.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">+1 from me -- I actually didn't realize Michele wasn't already a charter member!</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 6:07 PM, Alex M <span dir="ltr" class="">
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On 09/05/2017 03:45 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:<br class="">
> Forwarding Michele Tobias nomination by Kristin Bott. The 2017 member<br class="">
> nominations list has been updated [1].<br class="">
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> Best regards,<br class="">
> Vasile & Jeff<br class="">
> 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs<br class="">
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> [1] <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">
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> Nominee: Michele Tobias, USA<br class="">
> Nominator: Kristin Bott, USA; Charter Member 2014 / FOSS4G LOC 2014 /<br class="">
> Code of Conduct Committee chair 2015-present<br class="">
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> I am writing to nominate Michele Tobias for OSGeo Charter Membership.<br class="">
> Michele is active in the development of FOSS4G software and open data<br class="">
> projects, as the lead programmer on the Literature Mapper plugin for<br class="">
> QGIS, the Data Curation Lead for the UC Davis Library’s American<br class="">
> Viticulture Area boundary data creation project, and an active<br class="">
> contributor to OpenDroneMap. She was a founding member of the OSGeo<br class="">
> California chapter and is currently a *re*founding member of the QGIS US<br class="">
> users group (in collaboration with Randall Hale and Kurt Menke).<br class="">
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> Michele brings experience in many open source tools; in GIS (QGIS,<br class="">
> GRASS, SAGA GIS), and a number of programming languages (R, Python,<br class="">
> HTML, Leaflet), and database systems (SQLite, PostGRES, PostGIS,<br class="">
> SpatiaLite), as well as cartography and graphic design (Inkscape),<br class="">
> Photogrammetry & Aerial Photograph Interpretation, and Kite Aerial<br class="">
> Photography.<br class="">
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> A regular presenter and/or workshop leader at FOSS4G (2017, 2014, 2011)<br class="">
> and FOSS4G-NA (2016, 2015) conferences, Michele also is active within<br class="">
> the OSGeo California chapter, serving on the organizing committee for<br class="">
> their annual meetings (2015, 2013, 2011) as well as presenting at same<br class="">
> (2016, 2011). Michele also takes her open source geospatial work outside<br class="">
> of OSGeo venues, leading workshops at local (UC Davis Library, Davis R<br class="">
> User Group) and statewide (California GIS Conference 2015 + 2014; GIS<br class="">
> Day 2014) venues.<br class="">
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> Finally, the call for Charter Members "strive[s] to promote diversity".<br class="">
> While the above qualifications are completely compelling in their own<br class="">
> right, Michele is a woman working in education, research, and science --<br class="">
> not OSGeo's predominant demographic. Additionally, Michele is interested<br class="">
> in improving the diversity of both OSGeo membership and conference<br class="">
> attendance; by including her as a Charter Member, OSGeo gains the<br class="">
> further commitment of someone who is both technically very strong and<br class="">
> also committed to building a community that is more accessible to all.<br class="">
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