Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter nominees -- please speak up!
Hi all, please accept my apologies for this late reply, as I just came back from my honeymoon and have been almost completely away from internet for the past two weeks. My name is Gabriel Roldán, and I am honored to be nominated as an OsGeo Charter Member by the generous Spanish Chapter board members, which I take the opportunity to thank. I've started as an Open Source developer wannabe since my first year of Computer Science career at Instituto Politecnico Superior - Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina, thanks to the visionary professors that promoted a three year programming career completely based on GNU/Linux, back in 1995. So I shared this vision during the two years I studied computer science while at the same time studied Architecture, to then drop the architecture career as I found myself really comfortable with programming and committed to the Open Source and Free Software movement. So during 1997 I started working on a GIS edit tool in C++, OpenGL and GTK+, while working and learning GIS at the Remote Sensing and GIS department. A couple years later moved to Buenos Aires where working as a programmer found the opportunity to do some Web-GIS development, but it wasn't until 2003 when I had the opportunity to actually become an Open Source GIS developer while working at a local government company in Spain, joining the GeoTools and GeoServer communities. From that time on I spent most of the time pushing for local governments to move from proprietary to Open Source solutions, hence getting even more deep into GeoTools and GeoServer development. Joined OpenGeo late 2007 as a Software Developer and since then had the chance to work on a wider set of Open Source projects, becoming a GeoServer and GeoWebCache core developer, keeping a more or less steady relationship with GeoTools development, and contributing to the OpenGeo Suite and GeoNode projects, besides some minor contributions to the gvSig and uDig projects. This last year has been intense due to the participation in the OGC OWS-8 test bed developing an implementation of the OGC GeoSynchronization Service 1.0 spec backed by the new OpenGeo's GeoGit project, which aims to become a distributed version control system for geodata, written in Java and inspired on the GIT distributed version control system concepts. I also had the honor to be part of the Scientific Committee to various editions of the excellent Girona Free GIS Conference and FOSS4G2010, as well as to give talks or tutorials at Girona, 2009 Buenos Aires' gvSig Users Conference, 2010 Brazilian Latinoware Conference, and FOSS4G2011. Finally, while I'm not very active on the OsGeo mailing lists, I more or less closely follow 10 of them and have been on the Spanish Chapter almost since its inception. If at all, the one thing I think I could be of help with if elected, is helping the Fundation develop stronger relationships with the Latin American FOSS4G development communities. Thanks, Gabriel. https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/groldan http://opengeo.org/about/team/gabriel.roldan/ -- Gabriel Roldan OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter nominees -- please speak up!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I was nominated by Helena Mitasova in this year charter member election. Somehow it happend, that I moved from GIS usage to GIS development during the years. I was GRASS GIS developer, where I made some contributions to the new (current) GUI, and to some modules. I might me more known, as the founder of PyWPS project (Python implementation of OGC Web Processing Service) or as member of the Prague FOSS4G 2012 team. Last years, I'm mostly working on the client side, using Java Script and OpenLayers. I'm involved in some INSPIRE activities, was member of the spatial data services working group. Since I'm working in small company, and since we are involved within INSPIRE activities havy, naturally, I will bring ideas and activities from those point of views. Jachym On 21.11.2011 19:14, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: There are many nominees this year! And since we have such an international slate this year, I expect many of us are in the position I'm in: I don't recognize the names of many of them, much less know of them at least by reputation. If you are a nominee, please consider posting a short statement about yourself and why you think you would be a good representative for OSGeo. You could post to the official nomination wiki page (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2011) or to this discuss list (which always is good to generate some discussion on these sorts of issues), or perhaps both. I'm going to hold off on my vote until close to the deadline, so that I have a chance to hear from many of these great candidates... -mpg ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk7OI6YACgkQyKt0uAjU4I8orACgl2idaUXeM/NJGbb3QpU2rzov YuQAn14VXKmY3fFq141cn/1XdLr7z5yr =qOG1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter nominees -- please speak up!
Hello everybody, my name is Pedro-Juan Ferrer and I have the honor of being an OSGeo Charter Member nominee for this year election (second year in a row), I'd like to thank to Jorge Sanz for the nomination and to the Spanish Language Local Chapter for being supportive (in the LC list). Computer has been one of my hobbies since I was 7, so when I grow up (34 right now) and I become a cartographer, obviously I also become a GIS specialist... well, it is said that specialization is for insects, and I'm more the Jack of all trades kind of person, but I hope you get the idea. I began using some GDAL/OGR tricks, some Python (Shapely), PostGIS an Mapserver, through the years I've become involved with the gvSIG and OSM communities. I'm not a developer, but a user (and some times a PITA with some bugs and bugtracking services) and a evangelist which is more the role that I develop for the OSGeo Foundation. I've been in the Spanish Local Chapter almost since it was founded, I was elected as it's Liaison Officer and submitted the LC Request of Approval to the Board and the community. I always defended that this Local Chapter should be Language based and tried to encourage people from both sides of the Atlantic to collaborate and get responsibilities, and I'm still trying because it is one of my biggest Failures cause we still aren't able to mobilize enough people, but we keep trying. I've been representing the Foundation in lots of Events here in Spain and (once) in LATAM, and not only in Geo-Events but also in other Software/Technology/Social events. I think that the Foundation needs to develop stronger links with the Spanish speaking communities, so if you disregard my nomination (but have reached this point) please take into consideration the candidatures of Gabriel Roldán (developer strongly involved in OpenGeo) and Lluís Vicens (University teacher (SIGTE departament in Girona) and one of the Almae Maters of the biggest FOSS4G event in Spain). Thank you very much for this opportunity! Best, -- Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses Valencia (España) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter nominees -- please speak up!
There are many nominees this year! And since we have such an international slate this year, I expect many of us are in the position I'm in: I don't recognize the names of many of them, much less know of them at least by reputation. If you are a nominee, please consider posting a short statement about yourself and why you think you would be a good representative for OSGeo. You could post to the official nomination wiki page (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2011) or to this discuss list (which always is good to generate some discussion on these sorts of issues), or perhaps both. I'm going to hold off on my vote until close to the deadline, so that I have a chance to hear from many of these great candidates... -mpg ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter nominees -- please speak up!
On 11-11-21 01:14 PM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: You could post to the official nomination wiki page (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2011) or to this discuss list (which always is good to generate some discussion on these sorts of issues), or perhaps both. I have set the wiki page above read-only at the end of the nomination period last week since it is the official list of nominees and I wanted to make sure it remained unchanged. For this reason I would encourage nominees to send their little speech on this list. -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
