[OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo would like to welcome our 15 new OSGeo Charter Members 2021

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Congratulations and welcome to our new charter members!

Best,
Angelos

On 12/13/21 8:53 PM, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) wrote:
> Newsitem: 
> https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/welcoming-our-new-osgeo-charter-members-2021/
> 2021-12-13
>
> OSGeo would like to welcome our new OSGeo Charter Members 2021.
>
> In 2021, we had 15 nominations and all were accepted. This year, 230 
> votes were casted. It was a lower number than last year (304 in 2020, 
> then 209 in 2019, 276 in 2018 for comparison). The OSGeo board 
> approved the new members in November 2021.
>
> We are happy to announce that the following people were accepted as 
> OSGeo Charter Members:
>
> Enock Seth Nyamador (2021) Ghana
> Maia Williams (2021) Australia
> John Duncan (2021) Australia
> Amin Mobasheri (2021) Germany
> Peter Rushforth (2021) Canada
> Fernando Mino (2021) Ecuador
> Julien Cabièces (2021) France
> Loïc Bartoletti (2021) France
> Ashish Kumar (2021) India
> Stefan F. Keller (2021) Switzerland
> Linda Kladivová (2021) Czech Republic
> Nick Bearman (2021) UK
> Adrien André (2021) France
> Nicolas Rochard (2021) France
> Malika Gunawardana (2021) Sri Lanka
>
> We send a warm welcome to our new OSGeo Charter Members.
>
> You find a list of all charter members [1].
>
> OSGeo now has a total number of 497 members for 64 countries. Below is 
> a summary of our membership (you can access the interactive version [2]).
>
> Thanks a lot to Anne Ghisla and Jorge Gustavo Rocha (2021 OSGeo 
> Elections CROs) for organizing the OSGeo Election 2021.
>
> Now it is time for the OSGeo Board Election 2021. You find the 
> nominations [3] and the candidate manifestos [4].
>
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> [1] https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/
> [2] 
> https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/d05b9316-41f6-4bf3-b959-eb3f2333afce/page/zgVoB
> [3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2021
> [4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2021_Candidate_Manifestos
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-- 
Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos