[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Election Results 2013

[Jeff McKenna]

Thank you Michael, Jakob and Arnulf for this wonderful news!

Congratulations to the new Board members: Bart, Jorge, Gérald, and
Jáchym.  Of course there is some hard work ahead, as Arnulf (OSGeo
Emeritus) has noted, regarding policy/procedure updates, but I am
excited to work with the new Board through the upcoming year!

A special thank you to Ian Edwards and Mike Smith for their continued
dedication to the Foundation.  Thank you.

And thank you to the outgoing Board members: Mike Gerlek, Peter Batty,
and Mark Lucas, truly top-notch professionals, vocal community
leaders, and I have learned so much from each one of you over the
years.   Thank you.  Thank you.  The whole community, thanks you.

We now have Board members living in many parts of the world: Germany,
Australia, Czech Republic, Spain, Netherlands, France, USA, and
Canada.  And our charter membership is made up of members from 37
different countries.  Together we all work hard to promote Open Source
geospatial all around the globe, every day.

This news puts a smile on my face.

Let's all continue to keep sharing our passion.  To steal a word from
my good friend and leader Venka, we are all FOSS4G heroes.

-jeff
OSGeo President





On 2013-09-07 1:50 PM, Arnulf Christl wrote:
> Dear OSGeo Members, the election 2013 has been completed and we are
> happy to announce the new board of directors [1].
> 
> Here are the final results from the voting for the open seats of
> the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were four seats open and they
> have been filled by (no particular order): * Jáchym Čepický * Jorge
> Sanz * Bart van den Eijnden * Gérald Fenoy
> 
> Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections and
> exposing themselves. All six candidates received excellent support
> with more then 60 votes each. Overall voting participation was 71%
> (128 out of 180) and there were no tie scores to arbitrate. Thank
> you to all who voted!
> 
> Your complete resulting Board is: * Anne Ghisla * Bart van den
> Eijnden * Cameron Shorter * Daniel Morissette * Frank Warmerdam *
> Gérald Fenoy * Jáchym Čepický * Jeff McKenna * Jorge Sanz
> 
> With the election results published the new board of directors
> becomes effective as of now.
> 
> Congratulations and please welcome the new and and re-elected
> OSGeo directors!
> 
> We wish to thank the outgoing directors for their continued support
> of OSGeo and for helping to run a fantastic organizations. We thank
> all candidates who stood in this election and all OSGeo Charter
> Members for their contribution and votes.
> 
> 
> Best regards, Michael, Jakob and Arnulf
> 
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2013_Results
> 
>