Forwarding Torben Barsballe nomination by Jody Garnett. The 2017 member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].

Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


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Subject:        Nomination of Torben Barsballe
Date:   Thu, 24 Aug 2017 15:58:15 -0700
From:   Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com>
To:     Chief Returning Officer <c...@osgeo.org>
CC: Torben Barsballe <tbarsba...@boundlessgeo.com>, Kevin Smith <smit...@draconic.ca>



Torben Barsballe is an amazing addition to the Java Tribe, in just a few short years Torben is one of the top committers[1] on the GeoServer project! Torben a dedicated and professional member of our community reviewing pull-requests, participating in code sprints, and taking lead on the occasional monthly release. His dedication shows - even going so far as to attending the bi-weekly PSC meetings (despite not having a vote.)

Torben is an advocate for open source, speaking at local Victoria GeoGeek events, regional foss4g-na events, and two global foss4g evetns. Torben is a kind instructor offering workshops at the local University of Victoria, and at the gloabl foss4g events. For foss4g 2017 he painstakingly reviewed the osgeo brochure, manning the OSGeo booth answering questions, and helping new contributors during the code sprint.

It is a pleasure to honour such a wonderful member of our community with this nomination.

[1] https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/graphs/contributors
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Jody Garnett
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