<div><div dir="auto">+1 Great to see a government open source advocate recognized. If you get a chance have look for Ben's presentation from CalGIS promoting open source use. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 11:06 AM Jeff McKenna <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Forwarding Ben Tuttle nomination by Jeffrey Johnson. The 2017 member<br>
nominations list was updated [1].<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Vasile & Jeff<br>
2017 OSGeo Elections CROs<br>
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[1] <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017</a><br>
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I would like to nominate Ben Tuttle as a Charter Member of OSGeo.<br>
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BenTuttle is a R&D Technologist at the National Geospatial<br>
Intelligence Agency leading efforts to deliver Open Source Geospatial<br>
tools as core infrastructure and services for NGA and its customers<br>
across the US Federal Government. Ben is focused on development and<br>
delivery of web and mobile geospatial applications to enhance data<br>
delivery, analysis, and decision-making. He has authored and<br>
co-authored papers in journals including PE&RS, Geography Compass,<br>
GeoJournal, Environmental Management, and Remote Sensing of<br>
Environment. He is currently leading a team of developers to deliver<br>
new capabilities for first responders, search and rescue teams,<br>
security personnel, and military users while revolutionizing the<br>
underlying infrastructure. The team is building on cloud based<br>
environment with a full DevOps pipeline that includes automated<br>
security scanning to shorten delivery timelines and fully embrace a<br>
secure CI/CD process. Ben has attended and participated in numerous<br>
FOSS4G and his agency is now among the key sponsors of FOSS4G.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
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Jeff Johnson<br>
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