I second Brent Wood's nomination for OSGeo Charter membership. As Bruce
has explained in greater detail, Brent has a deep insight into the
geospatial industry, open source software, and the OSGeo foundation. He
is an excellent advocate for OSGeo and I think it is remiss of us for
not inviting to be an OSGeo charter member sooner.
Warm regards, Cameron Shorter.
On 18/07/2016 8:15 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
Forwarding Brent Wood nomination by Bruce Bannerman.
Best regards,
Vasile
2016 OSGeo Elections CRO
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Subject: Nominating Brent Wood as OSGeo Charter Member
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 15:12:33 +1000
From: Bruce Bannerman <bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com>
To: c...@osgeo.org
Dear CRO,
I would like to nominate Brent Wood as OSGeo Charter Member.
I have known Brent for over eight years, starting from our time as
members of the FOSS4G-2009 Local Organising Committee. Brent was a key
member of the LOC.
Brent is a tireless advocate of open source spatial software solutions.
Brent has been actively involved with FOSS GIS as a user since the
early days of GRASS & PC MOSS in the early 1980's on IBM PC XT clones,
back when a 10Mb hard drive was considered large, spacious and fast!
He is not a software developer, but through his role at NIWA, NZ, he
has funded work on QGIS, Geonetwork, Geoserver, GDAL & Postgis, and
also contributed to the non-OSGEO but open source Generic Mapping
Tools (GMT) mapping & analysis tools.
He has run GIS, Postgres/Postgis, QGIS and GMT presentations and
workshops both through his work, and through other Open Source
initiatives in New Zealand for over 20 years, and has been a member of
the New Zealand Open Source Society council for some years.
A web portal he developed in 2008 (totally open source) was described
as "an exemplar for government open data discovery and delivery". The
Geonetwork metadata catalogue he implemented for New Zealand's
contribution to the Census of Antarctic Marine Life was described as
the best such facility of all (global) participants in the
International Polar Year/CAML initiative.
He is also active in the open data and open standards arenas in New
Zealand. He has just been nominated for an award under the NZ Open
Source Awards for his contribution to open source in New Zealand in
the geospatial arena.
As a user, rather than developer, Brent is a regular on several OSGeo
and other mailing lists, offering answers and help, as well as
sometimes asking for the same. He is a regular attendee and presenter
at FOSS4G since 2009, and organises the NZ QGIS User Group.
I commend Brent to you as a worthy OSGeo Charter Member.
Bruce Bannerman
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