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From: "Frank Warmerdam (External)" <warmerdam@pobox.com><BR>
Sent: Wed 3/8/06 5:13 pm<BR>
To: "OSGeo" <discuss@mail.osgeo.org><BR>
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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Board: Mark Lucas<BR>
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Folks,<BR>
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I would like to nominate Mark Lucas for the OSGeo board.<BR>
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Mark has been a supporter of Open Source for many years, and launched<BR>
the RemoteSensing.org portal back in 1999 or so. For me, the facilities<BR>
and community focus it provided was pivotal in launch of GDAL. Mark<BR>
also launched the OSSIM project and held together his team after they<BR>
migrated out of ImageLinks. Mark has good contacts in the US federal<BR>
government, and is helping to bring open source methodologies into some<BR>
groups there.<BR>
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Also telling was a comment Mark made in the Chicago meeting. He stressed<BR>
that we were all there because we wanted to find a way of making what<BR>
we love to do (writing/using open source geospatial software) sustainable.<BR>
I think he has the organizational smarts, contacts, enthusiasm and<BR>
perseverance to held us accomplish that as a foundation.<BR>
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Best regards,<BR>
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I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam@pobox.com<BR>
light and sound - activate the windows | <A HREF="http://pobox.com/~warmerdam">http://pobox.com/~warmerdam</A><BR>
and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGF, <A HREF="http://osgeo.org">http://osgeo.org</A><BR>
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