aside: Looks like Ben has an entry on the wiki https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bencaradocdavies and is active in the OSGeo Live project as well.
-- Jody Garnett On 6 September 2017 at 21:48, Vasile Craciunescu <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding Ben Caradoc-Davies nomination by Jody Garnett. The 2017 member > nominations list was updated [1]. > > Best regards, > Vasile & Jeff > 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs > > [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017 > > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Charter member nomination: Ben Caradoc-Davies > Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 13:45:48 -0700 > From: Jody Garnett <[email protected]> > To: Chief Returning Officer <[email protected]> > CC: OSGeo Discussions <[email protected]>, Ben Caradoc-Davies < > [email protected]> > > > > *name:* Ben Caradoc-Davies > *country:* New Zealand > *contact email:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > *nomination:* > > Ben Caradoc-Davies is a longstanding member of the GeoServer community - > first with his role at the Australian research group "CSIRO" and more > recently as a independent contractor from is native New Zealand. > > As a contributor Ben has demonstrated excellent leadership (volunteering > with the GeoServer Project Steering Committee and GeoTools Project > Management Committee) and mentoring of new contributors by answering > questions, offering encouragement, backed by kind words and constructive > reviews. > > Ben is exceptionally generous with his time: willing to take on the day to > day challenges of running a project, leading meetings, issuing multiple > releases a year, and stepping in for emergencies. The team has come to > depend on Ben's dedication to quality watching out for the build servers > and monitoring the travis automated builds. > > Ben is also takes on some of the harder open source challenges for the > foundation as a whole. In my time as an OSGeo board member Ben has helped > clearly articulated our legal questions, and taken part in meetings with > our legal council. > > I also had the privilege of organizing a foss4g-au event with Ben and > follow his open source advocacy work in Australia. > > Although it is perhaps not a character reference I personally appreciate > Ben's coding and communication skills. His ability to contribute code in a > consistent, professional manner, and his communication skills make working > on the GeoServer project that much easier. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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