Forwarding Asahi Kosuke nomination by Venkatesh Raghavan.
Best regards, Vasile -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Nomination for ASAHI Kosuke Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 12:48:18 +0900 From: Venkatesh Raghavan <[email protected]> To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer <[email protected]> CC: [email protected] Dear CRO, I am greatly pleased to nominate ASAHI Kosuke as Charter Member for the 2015 elections. ASAHI Kosuke is very active in the OSGeo.JP community and the force behind the FOSS4G Hokkaido community [1] which he started in 2010 with 6 members and is presently a community of more than 200 members. He is a prolific blogger [2] helping many in the community to get started with FOSS4G tools and is also an author of the highly popular book on Opendata and QGIS [3]. Asahi-san is the one of the most famous QGIS Python programming trainer in Japan [4] and has been the main organizer for recent QGIS Hackfest Hokkaido 2015 event. He possess all the requisite qualities to be a OSGeo Charter Member and will be a great asset to our Foundation. He is currently a board member of OSGeo.JP and has kindly consented for the nomination. Best Venka [1] https://sites.google.com/site/foss4ghokkaido/ [2] http://waigani.hatenablog.jp/ [3] http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E6%9C%AC-%E6%9C%9D%E6%97%A5%E5%AD%9D%E8%BC%94/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A465392%2Cp_27%3A%E6%9C%9D%E6%97%A5%E5%AD%9D%E8%BC%94 [4] http://www.slideshare.net/waigania13/qgis-23972082 [5] http://qgis-hack-hokkaido-2015.peatix.com/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
