I would like to second Dirk's nomination for the board, someone with vision and business experience, willing to help with OSGeo is important
Jachym 2014-08-18 9:19 GMT+02:00 Jorge Sanz <js...@osgeo.org>: > Forwarding Dirk Frigne nomination to the board by Jeff McKenna. > > Best > Jorge > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jeff McKenna > Date: 2014-08-11 16:31 GMT+02:00 > Subject: Board nomination - Dirk Frigne > To: "c...@osgeo.org" <c...@osgeo.org> > Cc: dirk frigne > > It is my pleasure to nominate Dirk Frigne[1], from Belgium, to join > OSGeo's Board of Directors. > > Having been involved in the Board for so long, I know what makes a > good OSGeo Board member, and I see that in Dirk. He has that rare > passion and vision for community, and speaks strongly about building > and maintaining a healthy OSGeo 'ecosystem' made up of both the > development community as well as professional service providers. > > I had the pleasure of sitting down to dinner with Dirk way back at > FOSS4G Cape Town in 2008, and he has since went on to form the company > Geosparc[2], and build the OSGeo project geomajas[3] into a healthy > community. More recently, many community leaders pulled me aside and > were impressed with his views on the 'membership' topic, and > specifically his views on what are the core principles of OSGeo. > > Dirk understands the industry today, our community, the software, and > is willing to help guide the growth of the foundation. I feel > strongly that he would be a wonderful addition to the OSGeo Board of > Directors. > > -jeff > > [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf > [2] http://www.geosparc.com/ > [3] http://www.osgeo.org/geomajas > > -- > Jorge Sanz > http://www.osgeo.org > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Jachym Cepicky e-mail: jachym.cepicky gmail com URL: http://les-ejk.cz GPG: http://les-ejk.cz/pgp/JachymCepicky.pgp Give your code freedom with PyWPS - http://pywps.wald.intevation.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss