Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member nominations period

2017-08-23 Thread Jody Garnett
Main positive is that the new procedure seems easier for the CRO to manage, and allows for an effective veto - the previous approach resulted in everyone being elected. Okay in the interest of not wasting anyones time I have revised the page as follows: *

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member nominations period

2017-08-23 Thread Sara Safavi
Thanks for the links! > Sorry to review all this on discuss, normally board stuff stays on the board email list (but I appreciate the early enthusiasm, lots of great people in this community to nominate). The recent nominations that triggered my original question were sent to discuss; the (old?)

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member nominations period

2017-08-23 Thread Jody Garnett
Checking, yes it has changed significantly, that page will need to be rewritten before voting can be called. Motion to change procedure is here: * https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2016-8-24#OSGeo_ charter_member_election_procedure And referenced here: *

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member nominations period

2017-08-23 Thread Sara Safavi
> may need a moment to write up how nominations work Has anything significant changed from the process as documented here? http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#General_Process On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Jody Garnett wrote: > I just published the meeting

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member nominations period

2017-08-23 Thread Jody Garnett
I just published the meeting mins on the board, those included the time frames and the new voting procedure passed at last years F2F meeting in Bonn. However I agree Sara that the CRO has not yet made their announcement (and may need a moment to write up how nominations work). -- Jody Garnett

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member nominations period

2017-08-23 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
I was wondering thesamething On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Sara Safavi wrote: > Hi all, > > Has the window to nominate new charter members opened? I see some noms are > starting to go out, and I have a few to put forward myself this year - but > as I hadn't seen the CRO's

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member nominations period

2017-08-23 Thread Sara Safavi
Hi all, Has the window to nominate new charter members opened? I see some noms are starting to go out, and I have a few to put forward myself this year - but as I hadn't seen the CRO's announcement yet here on discuss I wanted to make sure I didn't jump the gun. It's quite possible I missed the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nominations: supporting Dimitris Kotzinos and Angelos Tzotsos

2012-07-06 Thread Athina Trakas (OGC)
Hi, I would like to support both Angelos Tzotsos' and Dimitris Kotzinos' nominations as charter members. I have had the pleasure working directly with Dimitris in the past. We still are in touch and I am intrigued by the constant efforts (and fantastic results) the Greek OSGeo community is

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nominations: supporting, Angelos Tzotsos

2012-07-06 Thread Dimitris Kotzinos
Dear all, this is a note of support of Angelos nomination as a Charter Member for OSGeo. I have met Angelos and started working with him rather recently and I have to say that he is passionate and well versed in the matters of open source in general and specifically the GI related open source

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nominations: supporting, Angelos Tzotsos

2012-07-06 Thread nicolas bozon
A very good +1 to Angelos for CharterMembership ! He did so many Things for PyCSW, ZOO-Project, MapServer, and ZOO/PyCWS, as well as for OSGeo-Live. One of our good Advocates, but just natural ! +1 Nick 2012/7/6 Dimitris Kotzinos kotz...@csd.uoc.gr Dear all, this is a note of support

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nominations: supporting Angelos Tzotsos, nominating Dimitris Kotzinos

2012-07-05 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Greetings OSGeo - list(en)ers :D Herewith I'd like to express my support for Angelos Tzotsos' nomination. I met Angelos in November 2010, during the 1st GeoDataCamp organised by a core team behind geodata.gov.gr. No second thoughts, his profile fits into the OSGeo frame. His knowledge upon

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member nominations: Jachym Cepicky

2011-11-14 Thread Helena Mitasova
I would like to nominate Jachym Cepicky from Czech Republic: He is best known as the developer of PyWPS showing great performance at the Denver FOSS4G WPS shootout http://www.slideshare.net/jgarnett/wps-shootout In addition to his impressive development work, he has been active participant at

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member nominations: Gabriel Roldan

2011-11-14 Thread Mauricio Miranda
Hello everybody, I would like to nominate Gabriel Roldán. Gabriel is core developer for Geosever and Geotools and has been involved in FOSS4G since 2003 (or even before). He also has collaborated with gvSIG and some other projects. I really think he is one of the most important FOSS4G

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member nominations

2011-11-12 Thread yjacolin
: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member nominations http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2011 Awesome list for sure :) Glad others beat me to nominating a few of the people I had in mind too. I've worked closely with folks like Tim Sutton, Suchith Anand, Pedro-Juan and Massimo on and off over

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member nominations

2011-11-11 Thread Daniel Morissette
On 11-11-10 12:01 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote: Note to all those who submitted charter member nominations in the last two days: you are not being ignored, please keep the nominations coming, I will process them all (and register them in the official list in the wiki) by the end of the week.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member nominations

2011-11-11 Thread Tyler Mitchell
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2011 Awesome list for sure :) Glad others beat me to nominating a few of the people I had in mind too. I've worked closely with folks like Tim Sutton, Suchith Anand, Pedro-Juan and Massimo on and off over the past few years so here's my +1,

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member nominations

2011-11-10 Thread Daniel Morissette
Note to all those who submitted charter member nominations in the last two days: you are not being ignored, please keep the nominations coming, I will process them all (and register them in the official list in the wiki) by the end of the week. Thanks Daniel Morissette (OSGeo CRO, 2011)

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nominations

2011-11-08 Thread Shin, Sanghee
Dear All, I'm Sanghee Shin from Korea. Most of all, I'm very happy to be nominated as an OSGeo Charter Member by Arnulf. If I would be elected as an Charter Member, that would be my honor. By the way, I would like to nominate 2 persons from Korea as OSGeo Charter Members. First, I want to