[Aust-NZ] Re: Please accept your Aust-NZ nomination NOW

[shoaib]

Thank you very much for the nomination. I'm happy to accept. About me:

I fell in love with FOSS4G back in 2002 when I was at the University
of Melbourne studying Geomatic Engineering/Computer Science. I have
since attended FOSS4G 05 and 06. Inspired by those I ran a FOSS4G
Tutorial at the 2006 Open Source Developers Conference.

Professionally I have worked in the High Performance Computing
Industry, Ocean Mapping and on a number of Neogeography projects.
Currently I work as a Data Manager at Geoscience Australia (GA) where
I am on the GeoNetwork Technical Committee, looking at ways to make
Australian Geospatial Data more accessible. I also serve on GA's Data
Managers Committee. This year I am giving a tutorial on Spatial
Analysis on the GeoWeb using Ruby on Rails at the Where2.0 conference
in San Fransisco. I maintain 2 open source projects: GeoRuby
(implementation of OGC Simple Features for SQL in Ruby) and YM4R (Ruby
wrappers for adding maps to Rails/Ruby web applications).

cheers
Shoaib Burq


On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Cameron Shorter
<cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
> We are trying to get the Aust-NZ chapter formed before we make big decisions
> for FOSS4G (like selecting a Professional Conference Organisor), so please
> help out by fast tracking the boring procedural stuff.
>
>  We need 5 directors for Aust NZ, and we want representation from both
> Australia and New Zealand. The role has minimal duties by itself, just the
> occasional vote to make list discussions official. People who are likely to
> be involved in OSGeo type events would be good candidates. (If you are
> reading this, you qualify).
>
>  So in interests of speed, I nominate everyone on this list who has read
> this far down this email.
>
>  Could we please see some acceptance emails which include a paragraph or 2
> about yourself and your OSGeo interests.
>
>  Bruce Bannerman wrote:
>
> > Cameron,
> >
> > I'll be offline all day tomorrow.
> >
> > I'm concerned that we don't have acceptance of nomination from anyone
> > but yourself and myself.
> > Can you chase this up please?
> > It may be worth nominating Liz Kolster and Hamish as well.
> >
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> >
>
>
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