[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Hires an Executive Director

[Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)]

Excellent news!

You could not have picked a better guy for the job.

Best regards,
Bart

Frank Warmerdam schreef:
> 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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Bart van den Eijnden
OSGIS, Open Source GIS
bartvde at osgis.nl
http://www.osgis.nl