[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination for Ben Lewis

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Ben Lewis nomination by Andy Anderson. 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


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Subject: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination for Ben Lewis
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 03:13:47 +0000
From: Andy Anderson <aanderson at amherst.edu>
To: cro at osgeo.org <cro at osgeo.org>
CC: Lewis, Benjamin <blewis at cga.harvard.edu>

I would like to nominate Ben Lewis for charter membership.

Ben is system architect and project manager of Harvard WorldMap [1], an 
open-source infrastructure to support collaborative research around 
geospatial information.  Ben is also leading a team to build an 
open-source global registry of web map services (Harvard Hypermap [2]) 
and another to develop the Billion Object Platform [3], which supports 
interactive exploration of billions of spatio-temporal things. As a 
member of the Boston Local Organizing Committee and the Program 
Subcommittee, Ben helped put together the International FOSS4G 2017 
conference this August.

[1] http://worldmap.harvard.edu/
[2] 
http://www.gis.harvard.edu/publications/harvard-hypermap-open-source-framework-making-world’s-geospatial-information-more
[3] 
http://www.gis.harvard.edu/services/project-consultation/project-resume/billion-object-platform-bop

— Andy Anderson