[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nominating Brent Wood as OSGeo Charter Member

[Cameron Shorter]

I second Brent Wood's nomination for OSGeo Charter membership. As Bruce 
has explained in greater detail, Brent has a deep insight into the 
geospatial industry, open source software, and the OSGeo foundation. He 
is an excellent advocate for OSGeo and I think it is remiss of us for 
not inviting to be an OSGeo charter member sooner.

Warm regards, Cameron Shorter.


On 18/07/2016 8:15 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
> Forwarding Brent Wood nomination by Bruce Bannerman.
>
> Best regards,
> Vasile
> 2016 OSGeo Elections CRO
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject:     Nominating Brent Wood as OSGeo Charter Member
> Date:     Fri, 15 Jul 2016 15:12:33 +1000
> From:     Bruce Bannerman <bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com>
> To:     cro at osgeo.org
>
>
>
> Dear CRO,
>
> I would like to nominate Brent Wood as OSGeo Charter Member.
>
>
> I have known Brent for over eight years, starting from our time as 
> members of the FOSS4G-2009 Local Organising Committee. Brent was a key 
> member of the LOC.
>
> Brent is a tireless advocate of open source spatial software solutions.
>
>
> Brent has been actively involved with FOSS GIS as a user since the 
> early days of GRASS & PC MOSS in the early 1980's on IBM PC XT clones, 
> back when a 10Mb hard drive was considered large, spacious and fast!
>
> He is not a software developer, but through his role at NIWA, NZ, he 
> has funded work on QGIS, Geonetwork, Geoserver, GDAL & Postgis, and 
> also contributed to the non-OSGEO but open source Generic Mapping 
> Tools (GMT) mapping & analysis tools.
>
> He has run GIS, Postgres/Postgis, QGIS and GMT presentations and 
> workshops both through his work, and through other Open Source 
> initiatives in New Zealand for over 20 years, and has been a member of 
> the New Zealand Open Source Society council for some years.
>
> A web portal he developed in 2008 (totally open source) was described 
> as "an exemplar for government open data discovery and delivery". The 
> Geonetwork metadata catalogue he implemented for New Zealand's 
> contribution to the Census of Antarctic Marine Life was described as 
> the best such facility of all (global) participants in the 
> International Polar Year/CAML initiative.
>
> He is also active in the open data and open standards arenas in New 
> Zealand. He has just been nominated for an award under the NZ Open 
> Source Awards for his contribution to open source in New Zealand in 
> the geospatial arena.
>
> As a user, rather than developer, Brent is a regular on several OSGeo 
> and other mailing lists, offering answers and help, as well as 
> sometimes asking for the same. He is a regular attendee and presenter 
> at FOSS4G since 2009, and organises the NZ QGIS User Group.
>
>
> I commend Brent to you as a worthy OSGeo Charter Member.
>
>
> Bruce Bannerman
>
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