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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 2 Oct 2017, at 19:34, Jeff McKenna <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" class="">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Forwarding nomination of Astrid Emde by Venkatesh Raghavan & Jeff McKenna. The Board Nominations page has been updated: <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2017" class="">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2017</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-Jeff & Vasile<br class="">CRO 2017 Elections<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-------- Forwarded Message --------<br class=""><br class="">It gives us great pleasure to nominate Astrid Emde as a member of the OSGeo Board.<br class=""><br class="">Astrid [1] needs no introduction for most in our community; for the few who may not yet be fully aware of Astrid’s contributions, she is an (hyper) active member of OSGeo for many years. She is a PSC member of the Mapbender [2] and OSGeo Live projects [3]. Apart from being a regular contributor at global and regional FOSS4G conferences, Astrid is the force behind the German language OSGeo Local Chapter FOSSGIS e.V. [4] ever since its inception. She is also involved in showcasing OSGeo at mega-events like INTERGEO [5] and scientific conferences like AGIT [6].<br class=""><br class="">Astrid relentlessly promotes OSGeo by organizing community events, code sprints, workshops on a variety of OSGeo software, and documentation/translation. More recently, her excellent communication skills are being put to effective use in our Marketing Committee.<br class=""><br class="">We would like to thank Astrid for kindly agreeing to spare her time for the added responsibility of serving the OSGeo Foundation as a member of the Board.<br class=""><br class="">Yours,<br class=""><br class="">Venka & Jeff<br class=""><br class="">[1] <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Astrid_Emde" class="">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Astrid_Emde</a><br class="">[2] <a href="http://www.mapbender.org/" class="">http://www.mapbender.org/</a><br class="">[3] <a href="https://live.osgeo.org/" class="">https://live.osgeo.org/</a><br class="">[4] <a href="https://www.fossgis.de/" class="">https://www.fossgis.de/</a><br class="">[5] <a href="http://www.intergeo.de/intergeo-en/" class="">http://www.intergeo.de/intergeo-en/</a><br class="">[6] <a href="http://www.agit.at/" class="">http://www.agit.at/</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Discuss mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>