[OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Board: Mark Lucas

[Ned Horning]

Frank,

Well said. I'd like to echo your support for the nomination of Mark to the
board. I don't know him well but have noted all of the qualities you mention
through personal communication, his participation in RemoteSensing.org and
OSSIM, and the Open Source Geospatial meetings. He seems to be a good
compliment to the existing board. 

Ned 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:fwarmerdam at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Frank
> Warmerdam
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 8:14 PM
> To: OSGeo
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Board: Mark Lucas
> 
> 
> Folks,
> 
> I would like to nominate Mark Lucas for the OSGeo board.
> 
> Mark has been a supporter of Open Source for many years, and launched
> the RemoteSensing.org portal back in 1999 or so.  For me, the facilities
> and community focus it provided was pivotal in launch of GDAL.  Mark
> also launched the OSSIM project and held together his team after they
> migrated out of ImageLinks.  Mark has good contacts in the US federal
> government, and is helping to bring open source methodologies into some
> groups there.
> 
> Also telling was a comment Mark made in the Chicago meeting.  He stressed
> that we were all there because we wanted to find a way of making what
> we love to do (writing/using open source geospatial software) sustainable.
> I think he has the organizational smarts, contacts, enthusiasm and
> perseverance to held us accomplish that as a foundation.
> 
> Best regards,
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