[OSGeo-Board] board nominee list

[Arnulf Christl]

Chris Holmes wrote:
> Hey webcom, could you guys post this nomination text for me?  And 
> hopefully QA it a bit before posting it?  If anyone (webcom or board) 
> could review to make sure I got all relevant snippets and spelled things 
> right, that would be great.  And if you webcom guys want to reformat it 
> or adjust things, go for it.  I just used Open Office, and had troubles 
> with my paragraphs going all the way across the screen, so things may be 
> a bit weird.  But I checked it on ie and firefox, and it seemed to look ok.
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> Oh, and webcom, if you reply to this, please remember the (*cough*) 
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> best regards,
> 
> Chris


Hi,
please spell the name of Michael Gerlek correctly, its a single "k" at 
the end of "Gerlek", he is neither a "Ger-lack" nor a "Ger-leck". Maybe 
the full "Michael P. Gerlek" makes more sense because then the very nice 
acronym mpg he uses makes all the more sense.

Best, Arnulf.

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> Nominator, Seconds
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> Jody Garnett
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> Cameron Shorter, Frank Warmerdam
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> I'd like to nominate Jody Garnett for the OSGeo Board.
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> Jody sits across many of the java based OS GIS projects:
> He is the OSGeo representative, PMC member and developer for Geotools,
> He is the architect and team lead for UDig,
> He is a developer on Geoserver,
> In the OGC he is involved with GeoAPI and improving OGC standards 
> (especially during the OWS3 testbed),
> He has been hacking Geospatial code for over 10 years and currently 
> works for Refractions Research.
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> Jody's commitment to Open Source, GIS and building communities ooses out 
> of him, which is why I strongly recommend him for the board.
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> Folks,
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> I would like to second this nominations since Cameron beat me to it.
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> - Frank Warmerdam
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> Michael Gerleck
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> Chris Holmes, Gary Lang, self
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Seconded. - Gary Lang
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> <snip>
> My "agenda", then, is to make sure we reach out to that part of the 
> geo community that is today just trying to build good products and 
> make some money -- to get them to understand the business proposition 
> of the reuse and quality value in existing open source geo packages.  
> To teach them that they can use open source internally and within 
> their products, without necessarily having to give up their IP or 
> open up their entire product line.  To teach them about the value of 
> submitting patches back, and to consider donating some money or 
> manpower to these projects. Later still, perhaps, to consider opening 
> up some of their own lesser projects, and to go on the record about 
> their use and support of open source software.
> </snip>
>  full text at: 
> https://mail.osgeo.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=discuss&msgNo=260 <https://mail.osgeo.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=discuss&msgNo=260>
>  - Michael Gerleck
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> Ned Horning
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> Tyler Mitchell, Frank Warmerdam
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> Ned works in the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation for the American 
> Museum of Natural History (http://cbc.amnh.org/) as program manager for 
> remote sensing and GIS. He is an active promoter of open source geospatial 
> tools in the global conservation community, including the development of 
> teaching materials using these tools.  He sees the bigger picture from an 
> end-user perspective and has plenty of ideas for how he would like to see 
> them come together for the greater good.  I believe more of this perspective 
> would be valuable to have on the board and help ensure that the overall 
> direction of the foundation is geared toward productive end use of our 
> products.  He is active in the conservation domain which has great need for 
> OSGeo tools.  He is a likable guy and easy to get along with - his vision and 
> enthusiasm are encouraging.  He is doing some great stuff...
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> For further background I quote Gary Geller's nomination for Ned from 
> https://webcommittee.osgeo.org/MembershipNominations.html
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> "...Ned is the Remote Sensing and GIS Program Manager for the American Museum 
> of Natural History’s Center for Biodiversity Conservation (CBC). He has 
> explicitly included the development and promotion of open source geospatial 
> software in his work plan to have the necessary institutional support to 
> continue to support this work as part of his professional duties. 
>  He has been closely following free and open source geospatial software 
> development for over 10 years and has actively participated in a number of 
> projects: Currently funding feature development for OpenEV. Added geospatial 
> capabilities to NIH Image to support a NASA education project – A Mac 
> application that has since been superseded by ImageJ. 
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> Participated in the NASA Image2000 software project that was eventually going
> to be released to the open source community although the funding plug got 
> pulled and the project abruptly stopped. Secured money for QGIS development 
> starting in the spring of 2006. Teaches week-long remote sensing courses using 
> only free and open source software.”
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> I would like to second Ned's nomination. 
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> Ned has a thoughtful vision of where open source geospatial applications 
> can go, and has worked to making them get there.
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> Mark Lucas
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> Frank Warmerdam, Gary Lang, Ned Horning, Pericles Nacionales
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Second - Gary Lang
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> 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 Horning        
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> I second this nomination.  +1
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> -Perry
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> Helena Mitasova
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> Markus Neteler, Ari Jolma
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> Helena is in Open Source GIS since the '80s and a strong and long term
> contributor not only to the GRASS GIS project, but to Open Source
> geospatial technologies in general. I know Helena for 10 years, others
> in this forum maybe for even longer.
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> She provides a valuable link to academia and also brings perspective
> from academia. Not just North Carolina State University, but she meets
> with people from other universities as well, including Michael
> Goodchild. She wants to promote OSGeo in UCGIS - University Consortium
> for GIScience), and can also bring some insight into US government
> sponsored GIS-research (federal and NC state). She can provide
> connections to East Europe, too.
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> She wants to contribute to the core curriculum project of OSGeo and
> has a lot of experience with graduate students from a great variety of
> disciplines, from engineering, natural resources, computer science,
> geography.
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> Seconded.
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> Ari
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> Dave McIhagga
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> Frank Warmerdam, Jason Birch, Gary Lang, Tyler Mitchell, Pericles Nacionales
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> I have known Dave since around 1997 when he, Daniel Morissette and I
> all worked for PCI.  When he and Daniel struck out on their own he already
> had a great client service ethic.  But over the following few years he
> also came to appreciate the transformative power of Open Source in his
> own business and in providing his clients better value and quality.
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> Since then the name DM Solutions has become synonymous with open source and
> he has become a prophet of the benefits of MapServer and Open Source 
> around the world. His efforts on the OSGIS'04 conference, and his 
> support for
> MapServer and MapTools.org have also been appreciated by the community.
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> Dave has great experience in selling the value of open source geospatial
> technologies in the hard edged business world.  He also has community
> building skills, and a willingness to do the right thing even if it not
> the most expedient for his own business needs.
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> Dave played a critical role in the launch of OSGeo, and I look forward
> keeping his nose to the grindstone to help make it a big success.
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> Seconded - Jason Birch
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> I second the nomination.
>   - Gary Lang
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> I agree wholeheartedly - Dave has helped fill critical needs in the 
> osgeo community and was key in launching the foundation initiative.  
> I would really like to see him on the board to help provide his 
> insights, ideas and management skills.  I have presented alongside 
> Dave at various conferences and kicked many ideas around with him 
> over the past few years - it is always a pleasure to work with him.
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> Tyler
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> I second that!
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> -Perry
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> Venkatesh Raghavan
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> Markus Neteler, Jeff McKenna, Helena Mitasova
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> I am honored to nominate Dr. Venkatesh Raghavan 
> (http://www.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/~raghavan/indexe.html <http://www.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/%7Eraghavan/indexe.html>), 
> professor at Osaka City University in Japan, for one of the 
> OSGeo board of directors seats.
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> Venka is well known in Asia for his promotion of FOSS4G. He co-ordinated the 
> successful FOSS/GRASS 2004 International conference in Bangkok, Thailand 
> (http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grass04/).
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> Preceeding this conference Jeff McKenna from DM Solutions and me (I was  
> awarded a fellowship from Venka to come to Japan and hold a couple of seminars 
> in FOSS geomatics) came to Osaka to join the discussions. It was there in 
> Bangkok then, over a few drinks, that initial discussions of a joint 
> international FOSS geomatics conference for 2006 were discussed, in particular 
> by Venka, Dave McIlhagga, Jeff and me. But I can honestly say that it was 
> Venka's passion for FOSS geomatics that got the ball rolling. A very 
> personable person, Venka has a way of setting you at ease, that hopefully all 
> of you will get to experience.
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> Venka has been a big promoter of FOSS geomatics in the Asian market.  He has 
> personally contributed to FOSS by being instrumental in bringing international 
> character support (i18N) to GRASS and MapServer (see http://www.foss4g.org/), 
> writing a tutorial as well as creating FOSS4G installers for Mandrake Linux 
> (including a MapServer/MapLab rpm available on maptools.org).
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> Venka possesses a passion for FOSS geomatics, and, after discussing this with 
> Jeff McKenna, we both feel that he would be a great asset to have on the board.
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> Venka is currently traveling through Vietnam and Thailand, but he has said that 
> when he returns he is excited to take more of an active role in the OSGeo 
> discussions.
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> I second the nomination.  As mentioned by Markus, it was Venka's vision 
> that brought (and will bring) the GRASS and MapServer communities 
> together initially.  He is already a respected voice in SE Asia for 
> FOSS4G, and his voice would be even stronger with a seat on the board.
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> Having travelled to SE Asia, I can tell you that I was surprised and 
> impressed with how vibrant and active the FOSS4G community is there. 
> It's for this reason that I think this is an important nomination.
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> - Jeff McKenna
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> I second Venka's nomination too. - Helena Mitasova
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> Jo Walsh
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> Jason Birch, Schuyler Earle, Tyler Mitchell
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> Jo Walsh is a respected member of the open geospatial community, 
> with a strong involvement in open data.
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> http://frot.org/
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> I feel honoured to nominate Jo for consideration in the upcoming OSGeo 
> board elections.
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> Seconded. 
>    - Schuyler Earle
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> I second that as well.  Jo is level-headed and has been looking out 
> for the end users and public in general, particularly with her 
> advocacy for open data, but certainly not limited to this.  Whether 
> it's natural or not, she appears to be a natural organiser for 
> bringing together people of like mind for the greater good.  I also 
> believe she can see the bigger picture of how tools, processes, data, 
> etc. can all be tied together into a more cohesive infrastructure for 
> future possibilities - that is something that I think we could all 
> appreciate. 
>  -Tyler Mitchell
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