[OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for board: Michael Gerlek

[Gary Lang]

Seconded.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Holmes [mailto:cholmes at openplans.org] 
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 7:55 AM
To: discuss at mail.osgeo.org
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for board: Michael Gerlek

I would like to nominate Michael Gerlek (mpg) for the board.

I had never met or heard of Michael before the meeting in Chicago, but I

found his contributions and advice to be incredibly valuable.  He played

a key role in helping to figure out the initial governance 
bootstrapping, and since has followed up with solid contributions to the

wiki and sounding in on the irc channel.  I think he would continue to 
provide a very reasoned and well thought out voice in the continued 
bootstrapping of the foundation.

He could also prove a great resource on the board as an ambassador to 
proprietary software vendors to build on technologies like GDAL, OSSIM, 
GeoTools and FDO, a role he's excited about.  And I'm happy to nominate 
him despite a short track record of os geo software experience, since he

already seems quite committed to helping out and spreading OSGeo, 
regardless of the outcome.

best regards,

Chris


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