[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination: Ben Caradoc-Davies

[Jody Garnett]

aside: Looks like Ben has an entry on the wiki
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bencaradocdavies and is active in the
OSGeo Live project as well.

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Jody Garnett

On 6 September 2017 at 21:48, Vasile Craciunescu <vasile at geo-spatial.org>
wrote:

> Forwarding Ben Caradoc-Davies nomination by Jody Garnett. The 2017 member
> nominations list was updated [1].
>
> Best regards,
> Vasile & Jeff
> 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
>
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject:        Charter member nomination: Ben Caradoc-Davies
> Date:   Wed, 6 Sep 2017 13:45:48 -0700
> From:   Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> To:     Chief Returning Officer <cro at osgeo.org>
> CC:     OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>, Ben Caradoc-Davies <
> ben at transient.nz>
>
>
>
> *name:* Ben Caradoc-Davies
> *country:* New Zealand
> *contact email:* ben at transient.nz <mailto:ben at transient.nz>
> *nomination:*
>
> Ben Caradoc-Davies is a longstanding member of the GeoServer community -
> first with his role at the Australian research group "CSIRO" and more
> recently as a independent contractor from is native New Zealand.
>
> As a contributor Ben has demonstrated excellent leadership (volunteering
> with the GeoServer Project Steering Committee and GeoTools Project
> Management Committee) and mentoring of new contributors by answering
> questions, offering encouragement, backed by kind words and constructive
> reviews.
>
> Ben is exceptionally generous with his time: willing to take on the day to
> day challenges of running a project, leading meetings, issuing multiple
> releases a year, and stepping in for emergencies. The team has come to
> depend on Ben's dedication to quality watching out for the build servers
> and monitoring the travis automated builds.
>
> Ben is also takes on some of the harder open source challenges for the
> foundation as a whole. In my time as an OSGeo board member Ben has helped
> clearly articulated our legal questions, and taken part in meetings with
> our legal council.
>
> I also had the privilege of organizing a foss4g-au event with Ben and
> follow his open source advocacy work in Australia.
>
> Although it is perhaps not a character reference I personally appreciate
> Ben's coding and communication skills. His ability to contribute code in a
> consistent, professional manner, and his communication skills make working
> on the GeoServer project that much easier.
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