[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Ionuț Iosifescu

[Jeff McKenna]

I fully agree Anne, that it is always important to recognize other 
contributions than just code.  As I explained in my recent FOSS4G-Europe 
keynote (and this was surprising to a lot of people they told me), the 
current OSGeo President fits exactly into those 'other contributions 
than code' realm. In fact I'd argue that there is no 'community' at all 
for a project without those contributions - documenting, testing, 
answering questions, asking questions, translating, packaging, giving 
workshops...in general, 'educating' the others about the project.  Very 
very important! :)  So yes, no shift needed really anymore, OSGeo 
appreciates all and any contributions :)

-jeff



On 2014-08-01 12:23 PM, Anne Ghisla wrote:
> I fully agree with Suchith on the importance of education, and am very
> glad to see many nominations of ICA-OSGeo Labs' members.
>
> I find that having many Charter members from the education domain means
> that OSGeo is ready to recognise other contributions than code. This
> makes me think of what Debian recently did:
> https://www.debian.org/News/2010/20101019
>
> Debian is maybe by design more code-oriented than OSGeo - anyway, I
> like our common shift to recognise more kinds of contribution as
> equally important.
>
> Anne
>
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2014 11:00:26 +0100
> Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> I would like to second Ionuț Iosifescu's nomination. Ionut's has been
>> activily contributing to OSGeo's education and research by setting up
>> the Open Source Geospatial Laboratory at ETH Zurich and promoting
>> OSGeo education efforts in Europe.
>>
>> We need more educators and academics like Ionut as charter members of
>> OSGeo. Though they might be not be very visible  , they provide the
>> greatest service for our community through their dedication and
>> efforts in educating the new generation with the FOSS4G knowledge and
>> to take us to new heights for the future with their long term focus
>> in education.
>>
>> I had the opportunity to meet and discuss ideas with Ionut in ICC
>> 2013 in Dresden and earlier this year at GWF 2014 in Geneva and  I
>> have been impressed with his work and contributions to our education
>> efforts.  I believe Ionut will be a valuable OSGeo charter member.
>>
>> Suchith
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Sanz
>> Sent: 31 July 2014 17:44 To: OSGeo Discussions
>> Cc: CRO; Ionuț Iosifescu
>> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Ionuț
>> Iosifescu
>>
>> Forwarding Ionut Iosifescu nomination by Vasile
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jorge
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Vasile Craciunescu
>> Date: 2014-07-30 20:28 GMT+02:00
>> Subject: OSGeo Nomination: Ionuț Iosifescu
>> To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer <cro at osgeo.org>
>> Cc: Ionuț Iosifescu
>>
>>
>> I'd like to nominate Ionuț Iosifescu[1] for charter membership in
>> OSGeo. Ionuț is a senior researcher at the Institute of Cartography
>> and Geoinformation at ETH Zurich - Switzerland and an active advocate
>> of FOSS4G for many years. He contributed to projects like QGIS and
>> QGIS MapServer. I would also like to remember that he did some
>> important scientific contributions in the field of Cartographic Web
>> Services [2] and FOSS4G promotion for education and research by
>> setting up the Open Source Geospatial Laboratory at ETH Zurich[3]
>> (part of ICA-OSGeo network).
>>
>> Best,
>> Vasile
>>
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ionut
>> [2] http://e-collection.library.ethz.ch/eserv/eth:4541/eth-4541-02.pdf
>> [3] http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/index.html
>>
>> --