[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Nomination for OSGeo Board: Marc Vloemans

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Seconded. I've known Marc since he stood up a cooperation of small companies that focus on open source geo in 2009 in The Netherlands, where he was really good at getting a common ground for those diverse companies and people. He was also director in the past of one of the better open source GIS companies in The Netherlands, B3Partners.

Marc can play a diverse field from marketing to business development and also a bit of sales. I'm positive he will make a difference in the OSGeo board.

Best regards,
Bart

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> On 18 sep. 2016, at 17:40, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
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> Forwarding Marc Vloemans nomination for the Board of Directors by Gert-Jan van der Weijden.
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> - on behalf of
>  CRO 2016
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> -------- Forwarded Message --------
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> I would like to nominate Marc Vloemans for the Board of Directors of the OSGeo.org foundation.
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> I know Marc now for approximately 10 years. The first years simply as fellow-Dutchmen working in spatial IT in The Netherlands. But since Marc joined the Board of Directors of the Dutch Local Chapter "OSgeo.nl" in 2015, and since we both were members of the Local Organizing Committee of FOSS4G in Bonn this year, I have worked with Marc more closely than ever before.
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> I guess a  lot of you (the participants of FOSS4G) can't have missed Marc since he was the central person in manning the OSGeo.org booth at FOSS4G.
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> He has a broad management experience in "spreading the open source word" in both commercial and public organizations, not just in Europe but also in other continents. But his organizational experience is not tied to just our well-known FOSS4G ecosystem.
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> Therefore I think Marc can build bridges to other organisations and ecosystems, and thus bring OSgeo.org a step further in its maturity.
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> And besides that, I know Marc as someone you can have a good beer/talk & laugh with!
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> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marc_Vloemans
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> Kind regards,
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> Gert-Jan
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