+1 on this nomination. I've only had the pleasure of interacting with Marc recently in Bonn, but I believe he is the exact kind of person we need to take OSGeo to the next level with a clear, focused and well executed marketing strategy.
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Jeff McKenna <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding Marc Vloemans nomination for the Board of Directors by Gert-Jan > van der Weijden. > > - on behalf of > CRO 2016 > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > > I would like to nominate Marc Vloemans for the Board of Directors of the > OSGeo.org foundation. > > I know Marc now for approximately 10 years. The first years simply as > fellow-Dutchmen working in spatial IT in The Netherlands. But since Marc > joined the Board of Directors of the Dutch Local Chapter "OSgeo.nl" in 2015, > and since we both were members of the Local Organizing Committee of FOSS4G > in Bonn this year, I have worked with Marc more closely than ever before. > > I guess a lot of you (the participants of FOSS4G) can't have missed Marc > since he was the central person in manning the OSGeo.org booth at FOSS4G. > > He has a broad management experience in "spreading the open source word" in > both commercial and public organizations, not just in Europe but also in > other continents. But his organizational experience is not tied to just our > well-known FOSS4G ecosystem. > > Therefore I think Marc can build bridges to other organisations and > ecosystems, and thus bring OSgeo.org a step further in its maturity. > > And besides that, I know Marc as someone you can have a good beer/talk & > laugh with! > > https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marc_Vloemans > > Kind regards, > > Gert-Jan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
