[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Iván Sánchez

[Jeff McKenna]

I second the nomination for Iván.  Passionate is right, plus smart,
funny, and a great international representative of OSGeo and OSM.  Hard
to put into words because I think he brings so much to the community.  I
really appreciate his hard work and I like being around him any chance I
get.

-jeff



On 2014-07-23, 7:23 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> It's  a great honour to nominate Iván Sánchez[1][2] (Spaniard now
> living in Norway). He is well known by usual FOSS4G attendants by his
> funny musicals (i.e. [3]) but Iván is much much more than a passionate
> geonerd. He is one of the main promoters of Open Data and
> OpenStreetMap in Spain (in fact he's currently the -exiled- president
> of the OSM.es association); he was for a period member of the Boards
> of Directors of the OSM Foundation and has leaded many activities
> around OSM and Open Data in Spain. He usually presents FOSS4G projects
> on conferences and is also well remembered by the Cake Test for Open
> Data (specially when he brings cakes to smaller-than-FOSS4G
> conferences).
> 
> Iván is a great friend and I'm sure you'll agree he deserves joining
> the Charter Membership.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Iv%C3%A1n_S%C3%A1nchez_Ortega
> [2] https://github.com/ivansanchez
> [3] http://vimeo.com/29203100
> [4] https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2009/11/11/921/
>