[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Election: Markus Neteler

[Anne Ghisla]

Carissimo!

mille scuse per il ritardo e mille complimenti per la rielezione. Sono
certa che continuerai a fare un ottimo lavoro per OSGeo ;)

a prestissimo
anne

Il giorno ven, 25/09/2009 alle 22.35 +0200, Markus Neteler ha scritto:
> Dear charter members and community,
> 
> I feel honored to be renominated again for the upcoming board election -
> this election is important to continue the work done for OSGeo and to meet
> the new challenges. This year we have a great choice between many new nominees
> and two board member standing for re-election.
> 
> For those not knowing me: I am one of the founding members of OSGeo
> and involved in FOSS4G since 1993 (as user) and since 1998 (as developer)
> with most activities dedicated to the GRASS GIS project.
> 
> I am very community oriented which means that I try to avoid making
> OSGeo any kind of elite group or the like. Moreover I work on integration,
> trying to connect people not knowing each other and trying to lower
> the barriers to contribute to OSGeo projects, be as ordinary user, be as
> power user or even more. "Growing developers" was the motto of one
> of the FOSS4G conferences which I like very much.
> 
> If you are interested, you can find the collection of proposals I made
> in OSGeo, here:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Neteler
> ... some done, some in progress, some more to come :)
> 
> Important for me is also the fact that most folks here are not
> native English speakers. Local chapters are important (I was involved
> in the establishment of the German and the Italian FOSS4G
> associations which later became OSGeo chapters) and need to
> be partially better connected to OSGeo-international. Furthermore,
> software needs to be translated to different languages. Here
> good progress was done but it needs to become easier to
> contribute. We'll work on that.
> 
> Finally, I am interested (and contributed) to OSGeo-Edu and
> OSGeo-Geodata which I pushed a lot in the very beginning of
> OSGeo in 2006 to avoid a pure software foundation. I am sure
> that we could deliver a great portal to the existing community and
> especially newcomers with a good material collection. For OSGeo-Edu
> it has been started, for OSGeo-Geodata we may have a catalog in
> future.
> 
> In this sense I'll continue to contribute!
> 
> Best,
> Markus
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