<div dir="ltr">Folks,<div><br></div><div>The motion passes with support from Frank, Tamas, Howard and Daniel.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for taking this on Even!</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Frank</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Frank Warmerdam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com" target="_blank">warmerdam@pobox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Folks,<div><br></div><div>Motion: Appoint Even Roualt as GDAL Project Management Committee Chair</div><div><br></div><div>+1 Frank</div><div><br></div><div>---</div><div><br></div><div>For at least a couple years, if not longer, Even has been the leading contributor to the GDAL project. As we start a fresh year in the middle of the 2010s I think it is time for us to formally acknowledge Even as the project leader.</div><div><br></div><div>The PMC chair doesn't really have many responsibilities, beyond ensuring that the PMC operates in an orderly fashion and acting as liason to the OSGeo board when needed. But it is also a recognition of Even's great work, technically and increasingly in other outward facing efforts such as his upcoming presentation on GDAL at FOSS4G NA in March.</div><div><br></div><div>I am very pleased to have "my" project pass into his capable hands, and I trust his instincts on technical and collaborative matters.</div><div><br></div><div>I will continue on as a member of the PMC and commiters list of course. </div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Frank</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>-- <br></div><div><div>---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------<br>I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, <a href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com" target="_blank">warmerdam@pobox.com</a><br>light and sound - activate the windows | <a href="http://pobox.com/~warmerdam" target="_blank">http://pobox.com/~warmerdam</a><br>and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Software Developer<br></div>
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