My involvement with OSGeo started with GRASS GIS, which I ran into while searching for an alternative for ARC GIS when I needed to be able to use a GIS on Linux. Since that day I was hooked. After GRASS joined OSGeo I've been involved with the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program and a member of the SAC and WebCom committees. I was a mentor for GRASS in 2007 and represented OSGeo at the GsoC Mentor summit. The following year I was elected to be the Administrator for GSoC. This year I was also the Administrator.
I hope to be able to improve the OSGeo GSoC program so it will run even more smoothly in the future. I especially would like to improve on both mentor-student-project interaction and student-student interaction. This goes along my hopes of improving interaction and communication between all the OSGeo projects. I would also like to extend the GSoC program to work along with our other education programs, as I see it has many similar goals. In addition to that I hope to help out in promoting OSGeo and GRASS GIS in education and the industry (wherever I can). I also hope to help build and improve the OSGeo website more in the direction that would allow it to bring in people to open source geospatial software. --Wolf -- <8 )---- Wolf Bergenheim ----( 3> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
