I would like to nominate Doug Newcomb, a GIS guru at the US Fish and Wildlife office in Raleigh, NC as OSGeo charter member.
For many years he has been a fantastic advocate of FOSS4G in the government agencies offering not only presentations, organization of sessions and meetings but also technical help with Mapserver, GDAL/OGR tools and GRASS GIS. His work with lidar data is famous for breaking records in the amount of data processed and information extracted with minimal resources. He has contributed to testing GRASS and other lidar tools and helped many people to get started with FOSS4G. I believe that we need more people like Doug and Michael Smith (also nominated this year by Jeff McKenna) who can promote FOSS and OSGeo in the government agencies not only by talking about it but also by using it and demonstrating how well it works for important agency tasks and cutting edge applications. I believe Doug would be a great representative of OSGeo and provide a much needed connection to government agencies as an active charter member. Helena Helena Mitasova Associate Professor Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences 2800 Faucette Drive, Rm. 1125 Jordan Hall North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8208 hmit...@ncsu.edu "All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties.” _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
