[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board Nomination for Maria Brovelli

[Andrea Ross]

+1 for Maria. She has done some amazing work for quite some time & is a 
joy to work with.

Andrea

On 09/09/16 07:27, Luigi Pirelli wrote:
> clap clap clap for Maria :)
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> On 9 September 2016 at 12:08, Jorge Sanz <jsanz at osgeo.org> wrote:
>> Forwarding Maria Brovelli nomination to the board of directors by
>> Helena Mitasova
>>
>> Best,
>> Jorge
>> CRO 2016
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu>
>> Date: 9 September 2016 at 05:07
>> Subject: nomination of Maria Brovelli
>> To: cro at osgeo.org
>> Cc: Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it>
>>
>>
>> Maria Brovelli
>> maria.brovelli at polimi.it
>> Italy
>>
>> I would like to nominate Professor Maria Brovelli for the board of directors.
>> She is very well know in the community for her passion for open source
>> software and open data,
>> leader of numerous initiatives, including the latest outreach to United Nations,
>> hosting FOSS4G Europe in 2015 and organizing several open source and
>> open data sessions
>> at the ISPRS congres in Prague in 2016.
>> Her leadership and contributions to OSGeo were recognized by Sol Katz
>> award in 2015
>> and she is on the advisory board and one of the regional directors of
>> GeoForAll initiative.
>> She advised many students who made significant contributions to
>> several OSGeo projects
>> including GRASS GIS and understands both the community building and
>> the software development issues.
>> I feel strongly that she will be able to take on the challenging tasks
>> and often complex
>> decision making that comes with the the board of directors membership
>> given her experience as
>> Vice Rector for the Como Campus of Politecnico di Milano. See her page
>> for more information
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maria
>>
>> Helena
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