Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination: Tina Cormier

2017-09-08 Thread Kristin Bott 
All --

I've been asked to provide further details on my +1. Again, positive
attributes
 below
for your reference.

I was also impressed by Tina's involvement in this year's FOSS4G; I feel
that her numerous contributions at the conference (talks, workshop) work
speaks to her dedication to open source approaches and making those
approaches accessible to users. Notably, as R continues to grow in
popularity within the data/science community as an analytical platform, I
believe that OSGeo stands to gain if the community is able to be conversant
with R in addition to the other platforms/languages with which folks might
already be familiar. (I believe this plus Alex's nomination speaks to
Tina's fit under the "positive attributes" of *"support[ing] and
promot[ing] the use of free and open source geospatial software, education,
and data..."* as well as "*participation in or support of OSGeo activities"*
.

As to diversity, I believe that Tina's proficiency in R (in addition to
many other open source platforms) is a mark in her favor. And, to continue
singing the same old song (see Aleda Freeman nomination +1 follow-up) I
don't believe that the list of Charter Members is representative of the
user community of OSGeo projects; I believe we're skewed on a couple of
demographic axes. One of those is gender. Let's work on that.

Further discussion / opinions / information needed, let me know.

cheers -
k.bott



*Recommended membership selection criteria include:*


   - *Members should believe in the general goals of the Foundation. To
   support and promote the use of free and open source geospatial software,
   education and data in a collaborative manner.*
   - *Previous participation in or support of OSGeo activities*
   - *The person should already have made a contribution to free and open
   source geospatial software, education or open data.*
   - *The person should be willing to put in time and effort on the
   Foundation, perhaps joining committee(s), or volunteering in some other way
   that gets the Foundation going.*
   - *Members should be prepared to work constructively and positively
   towards the goals of the Foundation. Good teamwork skills are an asset.*

*Membership nominations should strive to promote diversity:*


   - *Nominate members representing a diversity of geographic regions,
   diversity of projects, diversity of programming languages.*
   - *Nominate members representing and diversity of interests (e.g.,
   corporate, hobbyist, educational, scientific).*
   - *Nominate members representing a diversity of humanity including
   gender and race *


On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 3:53 AM, Jeff McKenna 
wrote:

> Forwarding Tina Cormier nomination by Alex Mandel. The 2017 member
> nominations list was updated [1].
>
> Best regards,
> Vasile & Jeff
> 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
>
>
>  Forwarded Message 
>
> I would like to nominate Tina Cormier for OSGeo Charter Membership.
>
> Tina was a star of FOSS4G2017 in Boston, presenting a workshop (‘Geo
> with R? Yes We Can!’) and three talks (‘A Journey through R for Geo’, ‘R
> in the Z-dimension: Processing lidar data for free’, and ‘Two laptops
> and a bag of thumb drives: Knitting together a global community using
> FOSS4G’)
>
> She has taught workshops in countries all over the world, from Peru to
> Nepal, as well as her home country the USA. Workshop topics range from
> programming in R, using QGIS, to processing lidar with open source tools.
>
> Tina promotes open source actively on Twitter and is now working with
> OSGeo-Live project on R quickstarts, and lidR package on improving user
> friendliness.
>
> Tina would be an asset to OSGeo as a remote sensing data scientist who
> works in academic research and industry, and helps represent women, R,
> LIDAR, and power user communities.
>
> -Alex Mandel
>
>
>
>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination: Tina Cormier

2017-09-07 Thread Jeff McKenna 
Forwarding Tina Cormier nomination by Alex Mandel. The 2017 member 
nominations list was updated [1].


Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

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


 Forwarded Message 

I would like to nominate Tina Cormier for OSGeo Charter Membership.

Tina was a star of FOSS4G2017 in Boston, presenting a workshop (‘Geo
with R? Yes We Can!’) and three talks (‘A Journey through R for Geo’, ‘R
in the Z-dimension: Processing lidar data for free’, and ‘Two laptops
and a bag of thumb drives: Knitting together a global community using
FOSS4G’)

She has taught workshops in countries all over the world, from Peru to
Nepal, as well as her home country the USA. Workshop topics range from
programming in R, using QGIS, to processing lidar with open source tools.

Tina promotes open source actively on Twitter and is now working with
OSGeo-Live project on R quickstarts, and lidR package on improving user
friendliness.

Tina would be an asset to OSGeo as a remote sensing data scientist who
works in academic research and industry, and helps represent women, R,
LIDAR, and power user communities.

-Alex Mandel





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