[OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Helena Mitasova

[Markus Neteler]

I wish to nominate Helena Mitasova for the board of directors.
She is member of several OSGeo committees and she is
continuously active and visible in the OSGeo community.

Helena has been developing Open Source GIS since 1990
with even earlier efforts to lay out the mathematical foundations.
She published a series of sophisticated algorithms in scientific
publications and implemented them in the OSGeo software
stack. This includes extremely valuable contributions to
GRASS GIS and other projects.

She is mentoring students for many years, and is developing
publicly accessible courseware for teaching Open Source GIS.
Her activities in the education committee of OSGeo are fundamental
to render OSGeo visible in academia and elsewhere. She also
contributed a first public geodata set to the community, showing once
more her engagement in various OSGeo activities.

Best,
Markus Neteler