[OSGeo-Discuss] charter member nomination: Tim Sutton

Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) arnulf at osgeo.org
Wed Nov 9 07:34:16 PST 2011


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On 09.11.2011 13:13, Duarte Carreira wrote:
> I would like to nominate Tim Sutton.
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> I?m probably not the best person to introduce Tim, but here goes. I know
> Tim mostly as Developer, Project Steering Committee member and project
> co-administrator of Quantum GIS, from his educational materials (Gentle
> Introduction to GIS excellent videos come to mind), great blog posts,
> active community building activities, and using open source in his
> projects. I think Tim is one of the main promoters of open source gis
> today.
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> I think he is based in South Africa, so the plea to diversify charter
> members geographically is also catered for.
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> Best regards,
> 
> Duarte Carreira

I wholeheartedly support this nomination (even although Tim is white,
male and about my age and thus a best fit for what we already have in
the charter membership... :-) He will be a great bridge to Africa.

Best regards,
Arnulf

PS:
I had to recheck  because I was sure that he must already be a Charter
Member but he is not - yet.
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