[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination: Gretchen Peterson

[Kristin Bott]

Additional details behind my +1 (was asked to explain why I seconded...)

I think that Gretchen has done a significant amount of work in
public-facing cartography / education and making both beautiful and
effective maps more accessible to folks outside of the usual / stock
audiences for such things (through: books she's written, blog posts,
Twitter, etc).

And, since part of the call for charter members involves diversity... to
continue singing the same old song (see Aleda Freeman nomination +1
follow-up; Tina Cormier nomination +1 follow-up) I don't believe that the
list of Charter Members is representative of the user community of OSGeo
projects; I believe we're skewed on a couple of demographic axes. One of
those is gender. Let's work on that.

Can provide more/additional justification/rationale/input/thoughts as
needed; let me know.

cheers -
-k.bott

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Kristin Bott <bottk at reed.edu> wrote:

> [pardon the delay, catching up on email as the school year starts up...]
>
> +1 this nomination.
>
> -kbott
>
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 2:31 AM, Codrina Maria Ilie <
> codrina at geo-spatial.org> wrote:
>
>> I second this nomination!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Codrina
>>
>> On 31/08/2017 03:25, Andy Anderson wrote:
>>
>>> +1!!
>>>
>>> — Andy
>>>
>>> On Aug 30, 2017, at 8:10 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I would like to second the nomination.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jody Garnett
>>>>
>>>> On 30 August 2017 at 16:24, Vasile Craciunescu <vasile at geo-spatial.org
>>>> <mailto:vasile at geo-spatial.org>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Forwarding Gretchen Peterson nomination by Sara Safavi. The 2017
>>>>     member nominations list will be updated ASAP [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: Gretchen Peterson
>>>>     Date:   Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:21:24 -0500
>>>>     From:   Sara Safavi <sara at sarasafavi.com <mailto:
>>>> sara at sarasafavi.com>>
>>>>     To:     OSGeo Chief Returning Officer <cro at osgeo.org
>>>>     <mailto:cro at osgeo.org>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     Nominee: Gretchen Peterson, gretchen at petersongis.com
>>>>     <mailto:gretchen at petersongis.com> <mailto:gretchen at petersongis.com
>>>>     <mailto:gretchen at petersongis.com>>
>>>>
>>>>     I would like to nominate Gretchen Peterson for OSGeo Charter
>>>>     Membership. Gretchen is a cartographer, author, and educator whose
>>>>     contributions to the community have impacted many of us - speaking
>>>>     personally, I can say that everything I know about designing good
>>>>     maps in QGIS, I learned from Gretchen. Most recently, Gretchen is
>>>>     co-author of the book "QGIS Map Design".
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