[GRASSLIST:10691] FWD: [OSGeo-Discuss] New Voting Members Selected

[Markus Neteler]

The additional tranche of voting members of the OSGeo Foundation
has been elected. See below for their names. The complete
lists will be available online here within a day:
 https://www.osgeo.org/

Markus

PS: I took liberty to fix the spelling of one name below.

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:41:18AM -0500, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> The membership nomination and election process is now complete, and the 
> following community members have been selected as additional voting members 
> of the foundation. We would like to stress that while the foundation needs 
> a voting membership in order to insure a board is selected that is 
> reasonably representative of the broad community, in essentially all other 
> ways anyone can contribute equally in the work of the foundation. As the 
> FAQ says:
> 
> "A non-voting (i.e. associate) member can do everything a voting member can 
> do, except vote in board elections. They can be members of committees and 
> vote on them. They can speak up, and contribute in every other way. The 
> foundation aims to be a do-acracy, and so the way to have influence is to 
> do things! Ultimately, of course, the foundation will only succeed in its 
> mission if the entire community gets involved -- so please don't hesitate! 
> We need your help!"
> 
> Andrey Kiselev
> Ari Jolma
> Bar van den Eijnden
> Cameron Shorter
> Daniel Morissette
> David Blasby
> Gary Sherman
> Gordon Luckett
> Helena Mitasova
> Helton Uchoa
> James MacGill
> Jason Birch
> Jeff McKenna
> Jeroen Ticheler
> Jody Garnett
> Jo Walsh
> Mike Adair
> Ned Horning
> Norman Vine
> Paul Spencer
> Rafael Medeiros Sperb
> Toru Mori
> Venkatesh Raghavan
> V. Ravi Kumar
> 
> Next we will be launching election of four more board members from the
> expanded membership.  The Promotions and Visibility, Web and Incubation
> committees have been launched.  We are also getting going on the incubation
> process to establish what it means for the initial eight projects to be
> "foundation projects", review code copyright details and so forth.
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
> ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
> I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam, 
> warmerdam at pobox.com
> light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
> and watch the world go round - Rush    | President OSGF, http://osgeo.org
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