All -- I've been asked to provide further details on my +1. Again, positive attributes <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#Positive_Attributes> below for your reference.
I was also impressed by Tina's involvement in this year's FOSS4G; I feel that her numerous contributions at the conference (talks, workshop) work speaks to her dedication to open source approaches and making those approaches accessible to users. Notably, as R continues to grow in popularity within the data/science community as an analytical platform, I believe that OSGeo stands to gain if the community is able to be conversant with R in addition to the other platforms/languages with which folks might already be familiar. (I believe this plus Alex's nomination speaks to Tina's fit under the "positive attributes" of *"support[ing] and promot[ing] the use of free and open source geospatial software, education, and data..."* as well as "*participation in or support of OSGeo activities"* . As to diversity, I believe that Tina's proficiency in R (in addition to many other open source platforms) is a mark in her favor. And, to continue singing the same old song (see Aleda Freeman nomination +1 follow-up) I don't believe that the list of Charter Members is representative of the user community of OSGeo projects; I believe we're skewed on a couple of demographic axes. One of those is gender. Let's work on that. Further discussion / opinions / information needed, let me know. cheers - k.bott *Recommended membership selection criteria include:* - *Members should believe in the general goals of the Foundation. To support and promote the use of free and open source geospatial software, education and data in a collaborative manner.* - *Previous participation in or support of OSGeo activities* - *The person should already have made a contribution to free and open source geospatial software, education or open data.* - *The person should be willing to put in time and effort on the Foundation, perhaps joining committee(s), or volunteering in some other way that gets the Foundation going.* - *Members should be prepared to work constructively and positively towards the goals of the Foundation. Good teamwork skills are an asset.* *Membership nominations should strive to promote diversity:* - *Nominate members representing a diversity of geographic regions, diversity of projects, diversity of programming languages.* - *Nominate members representing and diversity of interests (e.g., corporate, hobbyist, educational, scientific).* - *Nominate members representing a diversity of humanity including gender and race * On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 3:53 AM, Jeff McKenna <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding Tina Cormier nomination by Alex Mandel. 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 -------- > > I would like to nominate Tina Cormier for OSGeo Charter Membership. > > Tina was a star of FOSS4G2017 in Boston, presenting a workshop (‘Geo > with R? Yes We Can!’) and three talks (‘A Journey through R for Geo’, ‘R > in the Z-dimension: Processing lidar data for free’, and ‘Two laptops > and a bag of thumb drives: Knitting together a global community using > FOSS4G’) > > She has taught workshops in countries all over the world, from Peru to > Nepal, as well as her home country the USA. Workshop topics range from > programming in R, using QGIS, to processing lidar with open source tools. > > Tina promotes open source actively on Twitter and is now working with > OSGeo-Live project on R quickstarts, and lidR package on improving user > friendliness. > > Tina would be an asset to OSGeo as a remote sensing data scientist who > works in academic research and industry, and helps represent women, R, > LIDAR, and power user communities. > > -Alex Mandel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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