[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board nomination for Dirk Frigne

[till.adams at fossgis.de]

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Hereby I support the nomination of Dirk Frigne



Am 2016-09-13 20:50, schrieb Jorge Sanz:
> Forwarding nominations of Moritz Lennert and Gert-Jan van der Weijden
> for Dirk Frigne.
>
> Best
>  Jorge Sanz
>  CRO 2016
>
> ******
>
> Hello,
>
> I would like to nominate Dirk Frigne (dirk.frigne at geosparc.com [1])
> from
>  Belgium as a board member.
>
> Dirk has entered the Board recently and has since worked hard on
>  advancing OSGeo interests and on pushing an agenda of
>  professionalizing OSGeo as an organisation. He was one of the
>  co-founders of OSGeo.be in Belgium and has been one of the leaders 
> of
>  the OSGeo-EU initiative which led to the creation of this new 
> chapter
>  and which hopefully will allow breaking the stronghold of 
> proprietary
>  software in EU institutions and allow the integration of more foss4g
> in
>  European initiatives and programmes, by federating European actors
>  into networks.
>
> He has a strong business perspective and thus ensures a voice for all
>  the small SMEs active in foss4g.
>
> I feel that he has only just begun and that at his current rate of
>  pouring energy into OSGeo he will bring a lot to the community if he
>  is allowed to continue in the board.
>
> Moritz
>
> --
>  Jorge Sanz
>
> Sent from my phone, excuse my brevity.
>
> ---------- Mensaje reenviado ----------
>  De: "Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl"
> <gert-jan at osgeo.nl [2]>
>  Fecha: 12 sept. 2016 18:54
>  Asunto: Board nomination for Dirk Frigne
>  Para: <cro at osgeo.org [3]>
>  Cc:
>
>>> I would like to nominate Dirk Frigne for the Board of Directors of
>> the OSGeo.org foundation.
>
>>
>  >  
>  >
>  >  
>  >
>  > Dirk has already been in the Board since January this year, as a
> "substitute" after Jeff McKenna stepped down from the Board. Because
> of this "split-term" he is to be re-elected this year already.
>  >
>  >  
>  >
>  > Dirk is not just formally -being one of OSGeos vice-presidents-
> visible, but also in discussions and actions both in the Board (as 
> one
> can tell by the Board mailing list) as well as outside the Board.
>  >
>  >  
>  >
>  > As a founder and CEO of Geosparc (well know of GeoMajas), Dirk
> knows inside out whats going in doing business in an open source
> ecosystem.
>  >
>  > Besides that, his efforts for putting open source for geospatial 
> on
> the European agenda forces respect.
>  >
>  > And on a local scale, Dirk is as members of the Board of Directors
> very much involved in the Belgian local chapter.
>  >
>  >  
>  >
>  > I think Dirk has proven in his first 8 month as a Board member 
> that
> he is of great value of putting topics on the agenda that are very
> meaningful for a greater outreach of OSGeo.org as an organisation, 
> and
> of Open Source for Geospatial in general.
>  >
>  > Although I do not always agree on Dirks opinions, I think this
> ability to raise the right questions, combined with his broad
> background and perspective continues to make Dirk a very valuable
> Board member.
>  >
>  >  
>  >
>  >  
>  >
>  > Kind regards,
>  >
>  >  
>  >
>  > Gert-Jan van der Weijden
>
>
> Links:
> ------
> [1] mailto:dirk.frigne at geosparc.com
> [2] mailto:gert-jan at osgeo.nl
> [3] mailto:cro at osgeo.org