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

[Schuyler Erle]

Wat. Why is he not a member of OSGeo already?

Thanks Iván for the musicals. Also the software.

Seconded!

SDE

On Jul 23, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Jorge Sanz <jsanz at osgeo.org> 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/
> 
> -- 
> Jorge Sanz
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