[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Hires an Executive Director

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

Awesome choice -- congratulations and welcome Tyler!

..Tom


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:warmerdam at pobox.com] 
> Sent: 19 October, 2006 11:58 AM
> To: OSGeo
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Hires an Executive Director
> 
> Folks,
> 
> I'm thrilled to announce that OSGeo has succeeded in hiring 
> Tyler Mitchell as a full time executive director.  The full 
> press release is at:
> 
>    http://www.osgeo.org/content/news/news_archive/tyler_ed.html
> 
> Tyler has been "beating the drum" for organizational support 
> for our community - originally the mapserver community and 
> then more widely for several years.  So I am very pleased 
> that he has agreed to take on this
> role full time.   He should be starting full time in the 
> position on the
> 6th of November.
> 
> Tyler will be primarily acting in a support and facilitation 
> role, rather than "commanding", but by being able to 
> concentrate on the task full time I hope he will be able to 
> help move key initiatives forward - and by keeping a toe in 
> all OSGeo activities he can provide some degree of 
> coordinatation to all our activities.
> 
> The board prepared a job description for the executive 
> directory role at:
> 
>    http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Executive_Director_Job_Description
> 
> Some earlier, less authoritative thinking on the matter can 
> also be found
> at:
> 
>    http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Executive_Director
> 
> I hope everyone will welcome Tyler.
> 
> I would add that in the memaining 2-3 weeks before he starts 
> he has a lot of work to finish with his current employer, so 
> I hope people will appreciate he has limited time available 
> for OSGeo before starting full time.
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
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