Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Boad of Director Nomination: Daniel Morissette
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:08:21 -0400 Mark Lucas mluca...@mac.com wrote: I would like to second the nomination for Daniel. After having had the pleasure of working with him on the current board, I frankly can't imagine how we would function without him. He is always a voice of reason and he has taken ownership of managing all of the financial tracking and planning that has made us successful. Well said, Mark. Let me also second Daniel's nomination! Anne Mark On Jul 26, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Daniel Morissette dmorisse...@mapgears.com wrote: Thank you very much Arnulf for such a nice nomination. It would be hard for me to not accept after reading it. :) I'd be happy to serve on the board for another term, presumably to continue the job started as treasurer in the last year (or to help transition it to someone else if there is a taker), and also and most importantly to continue to help bridge the gap between the local chapters communities and OSGeo Global. The growing number of local chapters and local events shows how important they are to help spread the OSGeo vision to local and non-English speaking communities. I am very happy to see a few nominees from outside North America already... please keep them coming as I think this is a great sign and can only help make OSGeo even more international. Some continents/regions are not represented yet in the list of nominees. It would be awesome of we had at least one candidate from each continent/region. Daniel On 12-07-25 1:18 PM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: Dear OSGeo Community, Charter Members, I want to nominate Daniel Morissette for the OSGeo board of directors. I have been working with Daniel for many years and he is one of the most trustworthy and consistently productive people I know. He has always proven to be highly sensitive to community related aspects and has an international outlook, combined with very good English skills. This makes him a good mediator between different regions and cultures, a regularly upcoming issue in our community. This would already make him an invaluable member of the board of directors. But this is not enough, on top of this he also tends to the irksome job of treasurer and has toiled through many down-to-earth tasks that an organization of our size requires to get done. He is also an integral part of the Franco-Canadian local community and a relentless contributor to the MapServer project. It would be silly to not squeeze some more out of him if he so friendly asks for it. Thank you, Arnulf -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aghisla signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Boad of Director Nomination: Daniel Morissette
On 07/27/2012 05:43 AM, Anne Ghisla wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:08:21 -0400 Mark Lucas mluca...@mac.com wrote: I would like to second the nomination for Daniel. After having had the pleasure of working with him on the current board, I frankly can't imagine how we would function without him. He is always a voice of reason and he has taken ownership of managing all of the financial tracking and planning that has made us successful. Well said, Mark. Let me also second Daniel's nomination! Anne Not that it's necessary, but I would also like to support Daniel's nomination. I've had the pleasure of working with Daniel as well and agree wholeheartedly with Mark Arnulf. Mark On Jul 26, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Daniel Morissette dmorisse...@mapgears.com wrote: Thank you very much Arnulf for such a nice nomination. It would be hard for me to not accept after reading it. :) I'd be happy to serve on the board for another term, presumably to continue the job started as treasurer in the last year (or to help transition it to someone else if there is a taker), and also and most importantly to continue to help bridge the gap between the local chapters communities and OSGeo Global. The growing number of local chapters and local events shows how important they are to help spread the OSGeo vision to local and non-English speaking communities. I am very happy to see a few nominees from outside North America already... please keep them coming as I think this is a great sign and can only help make OSGeo even more international. Some continents/regions are not represented yet in the list of nominees. It would be awesome of we had at least one candidate from each continent/region. Daniel On 12-07-25 1:18 PM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: Dear OSGeo Community, Charter Members, I want to nominate Daniel Morissette for the OSGeo board of directors. I have been working with Daniel for many years and he is one of the most trustworthy and consistently productive people I know. He has always proven to be highly sensitive to community related aspects and has an international outlook, combined with very good English skills. This makes him a good mediator between different regions and cultures, a regularly upcoming issue in our community. This would already make him an invaluable member of the board of directors. But this is not enough, on top of this he also tends to the irksome job of treasurer and has toiled through many down-to-earth tasks that an organization of our size requires to get done. He is also an integral part of the Franco-Canadian local community and a relentless contributor to the MapServer project. It would be silly to not squeeze some more out of him if he so friendly asks for it. Thank you, Arnulf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Boad of Director Nomination: Daniel Morissette
Thank you very much Arnulf for such a nice nomination. It would be hard for me to not accept after reading it. :) I'd be happy to serve on the board for another term, presumably to continue the job started as treasurer in the last year (or to help transition it to someone else if there is a taker), and also and most importantly to continue to help bridge the gap between the local chapters communities and OSGeo Global. The growing number of local chapters and local events shows how important they are to help spread the OSGeo vision to local and non-English speaking communities. I am very happy to see a few nominees from outside North America already... please keep them coming as I think this is a great sign and can only help make OSGeo even more international. Some continents/regions are not represented yet in the list of nominees. It would be awesome of we had at least one candidate from each continent/region. Daniel On 12-07-25 1:18 PM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: Dear OSGeo Community, Charter Members, I want to nominate Daniel Morissette for the OSGeo board of directors. I have been working with Daniel for many years and he is one of the most trustworthy and consistently productive people I know. He has always proven to be highly sensitive to community related aspects and has an international outlook, combined with very good English skills. This makes him a good mediator between different regions and cultures, a regularly upcoming issue in our community. This would already make him an invaluable member of the board of directors. But this is not enough, on top of this he also tends to the irksome job of treasurer and has toiled through many down-to-earth tasks that an organization of our size requires to get done. He is also an integral part of the Franco-Canadian local community and a relentless contributor to the MapServer project. It would be silly to not squeeze some more out of him if he so friendly asks for it. Thank you, Arnulf -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Boad of Director Nomination: Daniel Morissette
I would like to second the nomination for Daniel. After having had the pleasure of working with him on the current board, I frankly can't imagine how we would function without him. He is always a voice of reason and he has taken ownership of managing all of the financial tracking and planning that has made us successful. Mark On Jul 26, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Daniel Morissette dmorisse...@mapgears.com wrote: Thank you very much Arnulf for such a nice nomination. It would be hard for me to not accept after reading it. :) I'd be happy to serve on the board for another term, presumably to continue the job started as treasurer in the last year (or to help transition it to someone else if there is a taker), and also and most importantly to continue to help bridge the gap between the local chapters communities and OSGeo Global. The growing number of local chapters and local events shows how important they are to help spread the OSGeo vision to local and non-English speaking communities. I am very happy to see a few nominees from outside North America already... please keep them coming as I think this is a great sign and can only help make OSGeo even more international. Some continents/regions are not represented yet in the list of nominees. It would be awesome of we had at least one candidate from each continent/region. Daniel On 12-07-25 1:18 PM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: Dear OSGeo Community, Charter Members, I want to nominate Daniel Morissette for the OSGeo board of directors. I have been working with Daniel for many years and he is one of the most trustworthy and consistently productive people I know. He has always proven to be highly sensitive to community related aspects and has an international outlook, combined with very good English skills. This makes him a good mediator between different regions and cultures, a regularly upcoming issue in our community. This would already make him an invaluable member of the board of directors. But this is not enough, on top of this he also tends to the irksome job of treasurer and has toiled through many down-to-earth tasks that an organization of our size requires to get done. He is also an integral part of the Franco-Canadian local community and a relentless contributor to the MapServer project. It would be silly to not squeeze some more out of him if he so friendly asks for it. Thank you, Arnulf -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Boad of Director Nomination: Daniel Morissette
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Seven (aka Arnulf) se...@arnulf.us wrote: Dear OSGeo Community, Charter Members, I want to nominate Daniel Morissette for the OSGeo board of directors. I second the nomination of Daniel! Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Boad of Director Nomination: Daniel Morissette
Dear OSGeo Community, Charter Members, I want to nominate Daniel Morissette for the OSGeo board of directors. I have been working with Daniel for many years and he is one of the most trustworthy and consistently productive people I know. He has always proven to be highly sensitive to community related aspects and has an international outlook, combined with very good English skills. This makes him a good mediator between different regions and cultures, a regularly upcoming issue in our community. This would already make him an invaluable member of the board of directors. But this is not enough, on top of this he also tends to the irksome job of treasurer and has toiled through many down-to-earth tasks that an organization of our size requires to get done. He is also an integral part of the Franco-Canadian local community and a relentless contributor to the MapServer project. It would be silly to not squeeze some more out of him if he so friendly asks for it. Thank you, Arnulf -- Exploring Space, Time and Mind http://arnulf.us ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Boad of Director Nomination: Daniel Morissette
+1! _mpg -Original Message- From: Seven (aka Arnulf) [mailto:se...@arnulf.us] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 10:19 AM To: c...@osgeo.org; OSGeo Discussions Subject: Boad of Director Nomination: Daniel Morissette Dear OSGeo Community, Charter Members, I want to nominate Daniel Morissette for the OSGeo board of directors. I have been working with Daniel for many years and he is one of the most trustworthy and consistently productive people I know. He has always proven to be highly sensitive to community related aspects and has an international outlook, combined with very good English skills. This makes him a good mediator between different regions and cultures, a regularly upcoming issue in our community. This would already make him an invaluable member of the board of directors. But this is not enough, on top of this he also tends to the irksome job of treasurer and has toiled through many down-to-earth tasks that an organization of our size requires to get done. He is also an integral part of the Franco-Canadian local community and a relentless contributor to the MapServer project. It would be silly to not squeeze some more out of him if he so friendly asks for it. Thank you, Arnulf -- Exploring Space, Time and Mind http://arnulf.us ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Boad of Director Nomination: Daniel Morissette
+1 (in every possible way, an outstanding choice) Mike -- Michael Smith Remote Sensing/GIS Center US Army Corps of Engineers On 7/25/12 1:18 PM, Seven (aka Arnulf) se...@arnulf.us wrote: Dear OSGeo Community, Charter Members, I want to nominate Daniel Morissette for the OSGeo board of directors. I have been working with Daniel for many years and he is one of the most trustworthy and consistently productive people I know. He has always proven to be highly sensitive to community related aspects and has an international outlook, combined with very good English skills. This makes him a good mediator between different regions and cultures, a regularly upcoming issue in our community. This would already make him an invaluable member of the board of directors. But this is not enough, on top of this he also tends to the irksome job of treasurer and has toiled through many down-to-earth tasks that an organization of our size requires to get done. He is also an integral part of the Franco-Canadian local community and a relentless contributor to the MapServer project. It would be silly to not squeeze some more out of him if he so friendly asks for it. Thank you, Arnulf -- Exploring Space, Time and Mind http://arnulf.us ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
