Hi, I am proud to nominate Daniel Morissette for the OSGeo Board election 2010.
Daniel is one of the early pioneers in the geospatial free and open source domain. He has been involved in the OSGeo Foundation since its inception. He is one of the main contributors of the MapServer project (for that he is often called the "Mother" of MapServer ;-) ) and he is a member of the GDAL/OGR Project Steering Committee (PSC). Due to his significant contribution to the advancement of open source ideals in the geospatial realm, he was awarded the Sol Katz Award in 2009. Daniel is also very active at a more local level. He is one of the co-founding members of the OSGeo Quebec local chapter and has recently chaired the organisation committee of the first and successful edition of the Rendez-vous OSGeo-Quebec (see http://rendez-vous-osgeo-qc.org/2010/). His addition to the board could thus be very valuable as he knows very well how local chapters work, the problems local users are facing in the adoption of geospatial open source technologies (including the cultural, linguistic and local peculiarities) and how local chapters can contribute to the achievement of the OSGeo Foundation mission.
Daniel is also one of the most patient people I know. He is always open to new ideas or points of view, but he also knows how to federate energies to carry out ambitious and difficult project. It is an actual pleasure to work with him. It is a man of passion and he knows how to share his passion of geospatial open source technologies with everyone.
It makes no doubt to me that he is committed to OSGeo's mission and he would be a very valuable addition to the OSGeo board.
Best regards, Th. -- Prof. Thierry Badard, Ph.D. ____________________________________________________________ Professeur agrégé au Département des sciences géomatiques (http://www.scg.ulaval.ca) Chercheur régulier au Centre de Recherche en Géomatique (http://www.crg.ulaval.ca) Chercheur régulier du Réseau de Centres d'Excellence GEOIDE (http://www.geoide.ulaval.ca) Responsable du projet de formation sur les normes internationales en géomatique (http://standards.scg.ulaval.ca) Administrateur des projets open source : GeoKettle (http://www.geokettle.org) GeoMondrian (http://www.geo-mondrian.org) SOLAPLayers (http://www.solaplayers.org) GeOxygene (http://oxygene-project.sourceforge.net) Membre votant de la fondation OSGeo (http://www.osgeo.org) Département des sciences géomatiques Faculté de foresterie, de géographie et de géomatique Pavillon Louis-Jacques Casault 1055, avenue du Séminaire Local 1343 Université Laval Québec (Québec) G1V 0A6 Canada Tél.: +1.418.656-7116 - Fax: +1.418.656-7411 Courriel : thierry.bad...@scg.ulaval.ca Web: http://geosoa.scg.ulaval.ca ____________________________________________________________ *AVERTISSEMENT* Avis relatif à la confidentialité Notice of confidentiality Advertencia de confidencialidad http://www.rec.ulaval.ca/lce/securite/confidentialite.htm _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
