I second the nomination for Iván. Passionate is right, plus smart, funny, and a great international representative of OSGeo and OSM. Hard to put into words because I think he brings so much to the community. I really appreciate his hard work and I like being around him any chance I get.
-jeff On 2014-07-23, 7:23 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote: > Hi all, > > It's a great honour to nominate Iván Sánchez[1][2] (Spaniard now > living in Norway). He is well known by usual FOSS4G attendants by his > funny musicals (i.e. [3]) but Iván is much much more than a passionate > geonerd. He is one of the main promoters of Open Data and > OpenStreetMap in Spain (in fact he's currently the -exiled- president > of the OSM.es association); he was for a period member of the Boards > of Directors of the OSM Foundation and has leaded many activities > around OSM and Open Data in Spain. He usually presents FOSS4G projects > on conferences and is also well remembered by the Cake Test for Open > Data (specially when he brings cakes to smaller-than-FOSS4G > conferences). > > Iván is a great friend and I'm sure you'll agree he deserves joining > the Charter Membership. > > Cheers > > [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Iv%C3%A1n_S%C3%A1nchez_Ortega > [2] https://github.com/ivansanchez > [3] http://vimeo.com/29203100 > [4] https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2009/11/11/921/ > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss