[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Board nomination for Michael Smith

[María Arias de Reyna]

I warmly second Michael. The treasury of OSGeo would be a nightmare without
him.

On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 9:46 AM Luigi Pirelli <luipir at gmail.com> wrote:

> I second Michael, I met him in Brighton but more deep knowledge come from
> his tutorial and presentations produced to support PDAL use. Tnx Michael.
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> On Fri, 2 Nov 2018 at 07:08, Vasile Craciunescu <vasile at geo-spatial.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Forwarding nomination of Michael Smith by Daniel Morissette. The Board
>> Nominations page has been updated:
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2018
>>
>>
>> Vasile, Vicky & Jorge
>> CRO 2018 Elections
>>
>>
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject: OSGeo Board nomination for Michael Smith
>> Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 00:17:41 -0400
>> From: Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com>
>> To: OSGeo CRO <cro at osgeo.org>, Michael Smith <
>> michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com>
>>
>> Dear CRO,
>>
>> I would like to nominate Michael Smith for the OSGeo Board election.
>>
>> Mike works for the US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS Center
>> of Expertise and has been a long time power user, supporter and
>> contributor of MapServer, GDAL/OGR, PDAL and other OSGeo projects. He is
>> a member of the MapServer and PDAL project PSC's and was actually one of
>> the instigators behind the PDAL project, the GDAL of Point Clouds. He is
>> also a FOSS4G regular and has not missed one since the 2003 MapServer
>> Users Meeting AFAIK.
>>
>> Mike has been active on the OSGeo Board since 2014 as treasurer. The
>> great job that he does behind the scene as treasurer doesn't get noticed
>> publicly by the members, but it includes several tasks and
>> responsibilities which are instrumental to keeping OSGeo running smoothly.
>>
>> In addition to his experience within OSGeo projects and its community,
>> he also brings to the board the perspective of government organizations,
>> which is a very important group of users and contributors of OSGeo
>> software.
>>
>> Plus, the voice of reason that he brings to the day to day operation of
>> the board is also of great value.
>>
>> All this makes him a perfect candidate to continue serving on the board.
>>
>>
>> Daniel
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>> Daniel Morissette
>> Mapgears Inc
>> T: +1 418-696-5056 #201
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