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

[Angelos Tzotsos]

I would like to second Ben's nomination

Best,
Angelos

On 09/07/2017 09:36 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
> Thank you, Jody. The link was added to Ben's nomination.
>
> Best,
> Vasile
>
> On 9/7/17 8:27 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> -- 
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>> On 6 September 2017 at 21:48, Vasile Craciunescu 
>> <vasile at geo-spatial.org <mailto: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
>> <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
>>     <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>>
>>     To:     Chief Returning Officer <cro at osgeo.org 
>> <mailto:cro at osgeo.org>>
>>     CC:     OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org
>>     <mailto:discuss at lists.osgeo.org>>, Ben Caradoc-Davies
>>     <ben at transient.nz <mailto:ben at transient.nz>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     *name:* Ben Caradoc-Davies
>>     *country:* New Zealand
>>     *contact email:* ben at transient.nz <mailto:ben at transient.nz>
>>     <mailto: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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>>
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>
>

-- 
Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
Charter Member
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos