Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sharing GIS Data Models

2012-06-28 Thread Simon Greener
For everyone's interest. I have worked on the idea of community models for years. I have even converted a lot of the ESRI (for they are community models NOT ESRI models) in to schemas for deployment on Oracle or PostgreSQL. In addition I have been working with Sparx Systems to enhance their

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Michael Smith

2012-06-28 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hello everyone, I have the honor to nominate Michael Smith for OSGeo Charter membership. Mike is with the US Army Corps of Engineers, Remote Sensing GIS Center, and has been a longtime supporter of FOSS. Most recently he is working very hard with Howard Butler to develop an Open Source point

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Karel Charvat

2012-06-28 Thread Jachym Cepicky
Hi, I would like to nominate Karel Charvat as charter member of OSGeo. Karel is long-time GIS visionary and supporter for Open Source GIS development in both - private activities as well as business. He is also active on the European level, working on various projects, always looking at Open

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Jan Jezek

2012-06-28 Thread Jachym Cepicky
Hi, I would like to nominate Jan Jezek for OSGeo Charter member. Jan is long-time Java developer, being active mostly in the Geotools community. Jan is currently working at University of West Bohemia and in Help Service Remote Sensing company - so he has connection to both - academic and private

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Vasile Craciunescu

2012-06-28 Thread Jachym Cepicky
Hi, I would like to nominate Vasile Craciunescu for OSGeo Charter Member. Vasile is long-time active supporter of Open Source GIS movement. He is the key-person in Rumanian Geo-spatial.org community, which is organising various events regarding Open Source GIS. Vasile is also known for his

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Thomas Bonfort

2012-06-28 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi, I would like to nominate Thomas Bonfort for OSGeo Charter Member. Thomas has been a long time active supporter of the Open Source GIS movement. He developed mod_geocache which has since been merged with mapserver as mapcache, he is an active developer of mapserver and recently taken on

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Michael Smith

2012-06-28 Thread Daniel Morissette
I second Michael's nomination, and was quite surprised when I found out that he was not a charter member yet. Mike and the team he works with have been long time users and active supporters of MapServer, GDAL/OGR and several other OSGeo projects since long before the creation of OSGeo.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Thomas Bonfort

2012-06-28 Thread Daniel Morissette
I'd like to second Thomas' nomination. Thomas is another one of those individuals that we're so used to seeing around OSGeo projects, conferences and code sprints that we just assumed that he was already charter members. As Steve wrote, he is a very constructive team player, so much that

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Massimiliano Cannata

2012-06-28 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Dear All, I would like to nominate Dr. Massimiliano Cannata as new Charter Member. Dr. Cannata is heading the Geinformatics Division at University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). He is a regular at FOSS4G meetings and has presented several interesting results on