I'd like to second Thomas' nomination.
Thomas is another one of those individuals that we're so used to seeing
around OSGeo projects, conferences and code sprints that we just assumed
that he was already charter members.
As Steve wrote, he is a very constructive team player, so much that many
of the performance gains made in recent FOSS4G benchmarking exercises in
both MapServer and Mapnik can be tracked down to the great
"coopetition"[1] spirit that Thomas (for MapServer) and Dane Springmeyer
(for Mapnik) put into the benchmarking game, effectively exchanging
hints and tricks to help boost the performance of each other's
(competing) software. That's open source at its best.
Daniel
[1] Coopetition = Cooperative competition
On 12-06-28 1:25 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
Hi,
I would like to nominate Thomas Bonfort for OSGeo Charter Member.
Thomas has been a long time active supporter of the Open Source GIS
movement. He developed mod_geocache which has since been merged with
mapserver as mapcache, he is an active developer of mapserver and
recently taken on the responsibility for the latest mapserver release in
the works.
Thomas has presented in various FOSS4G conferences and is constructive
and a great team player. I think Thomas would make an excellent OSGeo
Charter Member.
Best regards,
-Stephen Woodbridge
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