Thank you Tyler. Nomination added to
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011.
Daniel Morissette
OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011)
On 11-08-04 05:31 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
I nominate Thierry Badard to serve on the OSGeo Board of Directors.
His involvement in OSGeo to date shows an encouraging commitment to advancing
OSGeo's mission on many fronts. While primarily focused on the academic side
through Laval University, he is also active with the OSGeo Francophone chapter
and with several software projects (most notable GeoKettle).
The combination of his global outlook, educational experience and, lately, with
business exposure through his work with Spatialytics gives him a powerful
perspective on bringing many groups of people together. I've met Thierry
several times and had encouraging discussions about how to grow the
organisation and continue supporting people and projects that are connecting
through OSGeo. He also worked for IGN France, so has some inside understanding
of a national mapping agency, which I believe, is an increasingly important
part of OSGeo's user base.
More from his Linkedin Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/thierrybadard
Dr. Thierry Badard is professor in geoinformatics at the Department of geomatics
sciences of Laval University in Quebec City (Canada). He heads the GeoSOA research
group and is a full time researcher of the Centre for Research in Geomatics (CRG).
Former member of the steering committee of the CRG, he is also a regular researcher
of the GEOIDE Network of Centres of Excellence in geomatics. He has more than 15
years of experience and he has been involved and has led national and international
R&D projects of importance. His research interest deals with geospatial (Web)
Services Oriented Architectures (SOA), location-based and context-aware web
services and apps, geospatial Business Intelligence (GeoBI) and geo-analytical
tools and the design of intelligent mobile applications for better decision
support. He acts as a chair, editor and reviewer for numerous international
journals and scientific conferences and has already an important record of
scientific contributions. Dr. Th
ierry Badard is also actively involved in the geospatial free and open source
community. He is developer, administrator and project coordinator of the
GeoKettle (http://www.geokettle.org), GeoMondrian
(http://www.geo-mondrian.org), SOLAPLayers (http://www.solaplayers.org) and
GeOxygene (http://oxygene-project.sourceforge.net), open source projects. He is
an OSGeo charter member and acts as a member of the OSGeo conference committee
and a reviewer for the OSGeo Journal. Till last year, he was in charge of the
free software commission in the OSGeo Francophone local chapter. He is a
founding co-chairs the OSGeo Quebec local chapter and a founding co-chair of
the ICA (International Cartographic Association) commission on open source
geospatial technologies (http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca). He has also
recently co-founded Spatialytics, a new company specialised in open source
GeoBI where he acts as CTO. For further details, please visit
http://www.spatialytics.com and http://
geosoa.scg.ulaval.ca.
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