[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to the launch of the Geospatial Software Resources Platform for Geospatial Data Exploitation!

[Vasile Craciunescu via Discuss]

Dear OSGeo community,

It is with great pleasure to announce the official release of the Open Source 
for Geospatial Software Resources Platform for Geospatial Data Exploitation!
OSS4gEO is an initiative part of the Open Innovation framework at the European 
Space Agency and it was designed to lay the foundations for the community to 
maintain an open source geospatial software repository that functions as an 
extended metadata catalogue, curated by the community for the community. The 
initiative is supported by the European Space Agency and the first 
implementation was carried out by Terrasigna.
At this point, OSS4gEO registers over 400 FOSS projects documented within the 
[ecosystem](https://www.oss4geo.org/). Everything we've done (and why) so far 
is documented and made publicly [available](https://project.oss4geo.org/).

Join us online on the 11th of April, starting at 3:30 PM CET, when we will 
gladly share in an open and interactive discussion the results we’ve obtained 
during the 12 months of design, development and documentation of OSS4gEO, as 
well as our future plans. From 3:45 to 5:15, we will continue with FOSS best 
practices/directions/guidelines discussion.
The online event will be available as a Teams meeting. Note that registration to 
the Teams meeting in advance is necessary and can be done using this 
[form](https://survey.terrasigna.io/index.php/851345?newtest=Y=en). A 
meeting invitation with a Teams link will be sent on your registered email.
Note: asking questions and giving comments require attending the meeting 
through Teams.


Best regards,
Vasile
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcement: Call for Location global FOSS4G 2025

[Vasile Craciunescu via Discuss]

Dear OSGeo/FOSS4G Community,

We are happy to announce that the call to organize our international

"Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference 2025"

is open. We accept bids from any region of the globe. COVID-19 is more or less 
history but the world is still facing important challenges. That's why OSGeo is 
committed to stand by the hard working LOCs to provide all the needed support 
to make the 2025 event a successful, true meeting of the tribes!

Please find all details on our wiki page [1]. In case that you have any
questions, don't hesitate to ask the Conference Committee [2]!


May the FOSS4G be with everyone,

Vasile & Msilikale, on behalf of OSGeo's Conference Committee


[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2025_Bid_Process

[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcement: Call for Location global FOSS4G 2024

[Vasile Craciunescu via Discuss]

Dear OSGeo/FOSS4G Community,

We are happy to announce that the call to organize our international

"Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference 2024"

is open. For the second year in a row, we accept bids from any region of the 
globe. The world is still in turmoil with war in places that experienced peace 
for generations, with COVID-19 still around and with severe effects of the 
climate change. That's why OSGeo is committed to stand by the hard working LOCs 
to provide all the needed support to make the 2024 event a successful, true 
meeting of the tribes!

Please find all details on our wiki page [1]. In case that you have any
questions, don't hesitate to ask the Conference Committee [2]!


May the FOSS4G be with everyone,

Vasile & Msilikale, on behalf of OSGeo's Conference Committee


[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2024_Bid_Process

[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcement: Call for Location global FOSS4G 2023 (extended deadline)

[Vasile Craciunescu via Discuss]

Dear OSGeo/FOSS4G Community,

The deadline for proposals to host our beloved global conference was extended. 
Please take a look at the information package and, *please*, dare to bid! It's 
very very important for our community.


May the FOSS4G be with everyone,

Vasile & Msilikale, on behalf of OSGeo's Conference Committee



[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2023_Bid_Process

[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Announcement: Call for Location global FOSS4G 2023

[Vasile Craciunescu via Discuss]

Hi Jonathan,

I fully agree with Maria. I find your accusation very serious and I would like 
to ask you to provide more information to support this. Maria's answer 
described very well how the evaluation process goes. Please let us know what we 
can do to improve the transparency.

Warm regards,
Vasile


On 13.01.2022 09:35, María Arias de Reyna via Discuss wrote:

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:50 PM Jonathan Moules via Discuss
 wrote:

On the surface, this is a good idea, but unfortunately it has a fundamental 
problem:
There are no "criteria for selection" of the conference beyond "the committee 
members voted for this proposal". There's zero transparency in the process.


I can't let this serious accusation go unanswered.

All the process is done via public mailing lists. All the criteria is
published on the Request For Proposals. Anyone on the community can
review the RFP and propose changes to it. Anyone on the community can
read the proposals and interact with the candidatures.

The only two things that are not public are:
  * Confidentiality issues with the proposals. For example sometimes
providers give you huge discounts in exchange of not making that
discount public. So you can't show the budget publicly, unless you are
willing to not use the discount.
  * What each member of the committee votes. And this is to ensure they
can freely vote without fearing consequences.

Which are two very reasonable exceptions.

Anyone can ask questions to the candidates. If I am right, you
yourself have been very active on this process for the past years.
Were you not the one that asked what a GeoChica is or am I confusing
you with some other Jonathan? If I am confusing you with some other
Jonathan, my mistake. Maybe you are not aware of the transparency of
the process.

The process is transparent and public except on those two exceptions
that warrantee the process is going to be safe.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcement: Call for Location global FOSS4G 2023

[Vasile Craciunescu via Discuss]

Dear OSGeo/FOSS4G Community,

Although the fight against COVID-19 is not over yet, we need to think and act 
to keep the FOSS4G spirit alive and to have our beloved global conference 
hosted in 2023. That's why OSGeo's Conference Committee is happy to announce 
that the call for location for the

"Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference 2023"

is open. This year we accept bids from any region of the globe. 2021 was the 
proof that a successful FOSS4G can be organized in virtual form as well. With 
the mankind understanding more and more about the coronavirus, we really hope 
that FOSS4G2023 can be safely organized in physical format. And OSGeo is 
committed to stand by the hard working LOCs to provide all the needed support.

Please find all details on our wiki page [1]. In case that you have any
questions, don't hesitate to ask the Conference Committee [2]!


May the FOSS4G be with everyone,

Vasile & Msilikale, on behalf of OSGeo's Conference Committee



[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2023_Bid_Process

[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcement: Call for Location global FOSS4G 2022

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear OSGeo/FOSS4G Community,

Our civilization went through a major crisis in the last year. These
days, the world is still holding its breath, waiting for a
solution to the current COVID-19 pandemic. We were all scared and
worried for our family and friends and for our future. However, in time,
we learn how to cope with the situation and how to fight back. And we
have great hopes as the vaccination programs started to roll out across
the globe. Our community has to fight back as well and to find solutions
to continue with our activities. This is why our beloved event, the
global FOSS4G conference, must go on, in one way or the other. If
physical conference will not be possible, well... we must reinvent and
keep the FOSS4G spirit alive.

Today, OSGeo's Conference Committee is happy to announce that the call
for location for the

"Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference 2022"

is open. The events is to be held in Europe or North America. Only in
case that we do not receive any appropriate bid from these parts of the
world, we will consider to accept bids from any region.

Historically, every FOSS4G bid was a great challenge for the LOCs. 2022
will add a bit extra. But, as an anime character once said "Hard work
betrays none". And OSGeo is committed to stand by the hard working LOCs
to provide all the needed support.

Please find all details on our wiki page [1]. In case that you have any
questions, don't hesitate to ask the Conference Committee [2]!


May the FOSS4G be with everyone,

Vasile & Msilikale, on behalf of OSGeo's Conference Committee



[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2022_Bid_Process

[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee
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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2019 reminder: just few more days to submit your talk/workshop!

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear friends,

FOSS4G 2019 Bucharest is just around the corner and the first clear sign 
is the imminent approach of the call for papers/workshops closing date. 
Monday, the 15th is the last day when you can send your contribution to 
the 2019 global FOSS4G. We have received great submissions so far and we 
know just how magical a weekend can for to creative thinking before a 
deadline! Tic tac [1]


Cheers,
Vasile
Chair, FOSS4G 2019

[1] https://2019.foss4g.org/call-for-papers

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcing the FOSS4G 2019 EO Data Challenge

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear friends,

FOSS4G2019 Bucharest has in its foundation the belief that we live 
fortunate times having access to unprecedented technological and 
informational resources. For the first time in human history, we have an 
authentic opportunity to understand our changing environment and thus to 
make the right decisions for our future. True to our belief, we are 
launching today the EO Data Challenge, a competition inviting startups, 
developers, students and researchers to imagine and build valuable open 
source applications using large volumes of EO data and state-of-the art 
technologies. We are honoured to have as partners in this quest leaders 
from the industry and governmental and international institutions. Their 
valuable contribution and interest in the EO Data Challenge activities 
and results come to reaffirm the importance of this endeavor, which, we 
hope, could be relaunched in the following years.


Curious to see whom will look at your work or, even better, whom could 
be by your side in your challenge? Find out all the details on the 
Challenge webpage [1].


Warm regards,
Vasile

PS Don't forget that the deadline for submitting a talk/workshop is 
April 15. Tic Tac.


[1] https://2019.foss4g.org/call-for-papers/open-source-eo-data-challenge/


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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2019 early sponsors, partners and media partners

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

We are honored to bring forward to you the first engaged supporters of 
FOSS4G2019 Bucharest: our wonderful early sponsors, our committed 
institutional partners, our academia accomplices, our eloquent media 
partners and our EO Data Challenge awesome collaborators.


https://2019.foss4g.org/welcoming-our-first-sponsors-and-partners/

Warm regards,
Vasile
Chair, FOSS4G 2019

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Launch of the Travel Grant Program FOSS4G 2019 Bucharest!

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Der all,

Community is about inclusiveness, cooperation, support, sharing your 
knowledge and benefiting from knowledge shared by others. FOSS4G is a 
deeply rooted community event and that is why OSGeo is keen in 
supporting participation of fellow geospatial enthusiasts for whom 
attending an international FOSS4G would be a great opportunity, but 
almost if not completely, inaccessible.


With great joy, we announce that the FOSS4G 2019 Bucharest Travel Grant 
Program is launched [1]!


You are on the other side? Do consider sponsoring TGP, a small amount 
for you can make a world of difference for another [2].


Best,
Vasile
Chair, FOSS4G 2019

[1] 
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/foss4g-2019-travel-grant-programme/
[2] 
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick_button_id=BHVFTPSGFS99W


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G2019 Bucharest: registration open

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Great idea, Jonathan! Will do so.

Thanks,
Vasile

On 14/01/2019 13:23, Jonathan Moules wrote:
For those seeking a more sustainable means of getting to Bucharest 
rather than flying, there are also a considerable number of ridiculously 
cheap sleeper trains, including direct from Austria (Vienna), Hungary 
(including Budapest), Moldova (on original Soviet rolling stock!), 
Bulgaria, and Turkey.


Austria has excellent rail connections with the west, and it's possible 
to get from western Germany to Romania in two nights, with a relaxing 
day spent exploring Vienna between them.


It may be worth including this link in future promotional emails:

https://www.seat61.com/international-trains/trains-from-Bucharest.htm


On 2019-01-10 08:54, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear FOSS4G enthusiast,

It is with great honor and joy that we announce that the registration 
for FOSS4G 2019 Bucharest is open [1]! And more..


We promised to do our best to make this global FOSS4G the most 
affordable of all times and we kept our word. Joining the geospatial 
international community for one week packed with dynamic, valuable, 
timely events in a vibrant European capital city is more at hand than 
ever before. The EarlyBird for FOSS4G 2019 Bucharest is at the 
historical level of 330 EUR and it offers you everything you could 
ever need for such a tech gathering:


- Access to plenary session (28- 30 august)
- Access to conference tracks (28- 30 august)
- Access to 300+ talks
- Access to mobile app
- Ability to contact attendees
- Access to Ice Breaker Party (29 august)
- Access to Gala Dinner (29 august)
- Access to Pub Race Offers (28-30 august)
- Access to Academic papers post event
- Access to presentations post event
- Conference kit
- Email support

The #historicalearlybird registration is coupled with the unbelievable 
accessible accommodation and traveling expenses. Bucharest is a 
significant European traffic node and one of the low-cost favorite 
destination points, more than 70 airports have direct connections [2] 
with Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (also check our 
CARTO interactive map with estimated prices [3]). Browsing through the 
accommodation page on the FOSS4G 2019 website [4], you’ll find all 
types, ranging from a wonderful downtown hostel with a sky bar to city 
center 5* hotels, we have special negotiated deals for any taste and 
wallet. Please be aware that, due to high demand, the special prices 
are available only until the end of January.


Not convinced yet? To show our appreciation for our early 
participants, we have prepared 100 special T-shirts for the first 100 
registered participants. Not convinced yet? Be among the first 100, 
and you will also receive the Romanian Curios Passport. Curious? Be 
among the first 100 registered participants.


No FOSS4G would be possible without the valuable input of sponsors. 
They are the conference’s backbone contributing to the values, 
principles and progress of our community. Support us in our work to 
organize FOSS4G2019 Bucharest as one of the most memorable FOSS4G 
events. The call for sponsors is now open. Please, take a look at our 
suggestions [5] and find the one that best suits your needs and 
preferences.


Sponsoring is not yet possible but you want to actively contribute to 
the success of FOSS4G 2019 Bucharest? Become a volunteer! Besides 
valuable input in making FOSS4G 2019 happen, you will receive a free 
ticket to the conference (including the ice breaker and gala dinner). 
Interested [6]?


Sponsorship is not for you, neither volunteering but you still want to 
help FOSS4G 2019, then Spread the Word [7]!


Yet of course, traveling to a FOSS4G is meeting the geospatial gurus, 
old friends and collaborators, making new friends, finding new 
opportunities and presenting your own work. Within the next week, 
another important call will open, the Call for Papers and Workshops. 
The committees are almost fully  formed and ready for action. We are 
honored to say that the FOSS4G 2019 program will be shaped by 
remarkable people in the geospatial international community. Check out 
the Committee webpage [8] to see who will review your FOSS4G 2019 
contribution.


In the weeks to come, important steps will follow, as opening the call 
for academic papers, announcing keynote speakers, so stay tuned 
[9][10][11]! We promise our #historicalearlybird will prove to be even 
more convincing, as FOSS4G2019 Bucharest wheels turn.


With hope to see you all here in Bucharest, best wishes for a Happy 
New Year!

FOSS4G 2019 Bucharest team

[1] https://2019.foss4g.org/register/
[2] http://www.bucharestairports.ro/en/
[3] 
https://roxanab.carto.com/builder/10e2b0da-e89f-483a-97be-30097e6f0ed3

[4] https://2019.foss4g.org/attending/accomodation/
[5] https://2019.foss4g.org/sponsors-2/call-for-sponsors/
[6] https://2019.foss4g.org/register/volunteers/
[7] https://2019.foss4g.org/about/spread-the-word/
[8] https://2019.foss4g.org/about

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2019 Bucharest: registration open

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear FOSS4G enthusiast,

It is with great honor and joy that we announce that the registration 
for FOSS4G 2019 Bucharest is open [1]! And more..


We promised to do our best to make this global FOSS4G the most 
affordable of all times and we kept our word. Joining the geospatial 
international community for one week packed with dynamic, valuable, 
timely events in a vibrant European capital city is more at hand than 
ever before. The EarlyBird for FOSS4G 2019 Bucharest is at the 
historical level of 330 EUR and it offers you everything you could ever 
need for such a tech gathering:


- Access to plenary session (28- 30 august)
- Access to conference tracks (28- 30 august)
- Access to 300+ talks
- Access to mobile app
- Ability to contact attendees
- Access to Ice Breaker Party (29 august)
- Access to Gala Dinner (29 august)
- Access to Pub Race Offers (28-30 august)
- Access to Academic papers post event
- Access to presentations post event
- Conference kit
- Email support

The #historicalearlybird registration is coupled with the unbelievable 
accessible accommodation and traveling expenses. Bucharest is a 
significant European traffic node and one of the low-cost favorite 
destination points, more than 70 airports have direct connections [2] 
with Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (also check our CARTO 
interactive map with estimated prices [3]). Browsing through the 
accommodation page on the FOSS4G 2019 website [4], you’ll find all 
types, ranging from a wonderful downtown hostel with a sky bar to city 
center 5* hotels, we have special negotiated deals for any taste and 
wallet. Please be aware that, due to high demand, the special prices are 
available only until the end of January.


Not convinced yet? To show our appreciation for our early participants, 
we have prepared 100 special T-shirts for the first 100 registered 
participants. Not convinced yet? Be among the first 100, and you will 
also receive the Romanian Curios Passport. Curious? Be among the first 
100 registered participants.


No FOSS4G would be possible without the valuable input of sponsors. They 
are the conference’s backbone contributing to the values, principles and 
progress of our community. Support us in our work to organize FOSS4G2019 
Bucharest as one of the most memorable FOSS4G events. The call for 
sponsors is now open. Please, take a look at our suggestions [5] and 
find the one that best suits your needs and preferences.


Sponsoring is not yet possible but you want to actively contribute to 
the success of FOSS4G 2019 Bucharest? Become a volunteer! Besides 
valuable input in making FOSS4G 2019 happen, you will receive a free 
ticket to the conference (including the ice breaker and gala dinner). 
Interested [6]?


Sponsorship is not for you, neither volunteering but you still want to 
help FOSS4G 2019, then Spread the Word [7]!


Yet of course, traveling to a FOSS4G is meeting the geospatial gurus, 
old friends and collaborators, making new friends, finding new 
opportunities and presenting your own work. Within the next week, 
another important call will open, the Call for Papers and Workshops. The 
committees are almost fully  formed and ready for action. We are honored 
to say that the FOSS4G 2019 program will be shaped by remarkable people 
in the geospatial international community. Check out the Committee 
webpage [8] to see who will review your FOSS4G 2019 contribution.


In the weeks to come, important steps will follow, as opening the call 
for academic papers, announcing keynote speakers, so stay tuned 
[9][10][11]! We promise our #historicalearlybird will prove to be even 
more convincing, as FOSS4G2019 Bucharest wheels turn.


With hope to see you all here in Bucharest, best wishes for a Happy New 
Year!

FOSS4G 2019 Bucharest team

[1] https://2019.foss4g.org/register/
[2] http://www.bucharestairports.ro/en/
[3] https://roxanab.carto.com/builder/10e2b0da-e89f-483a-97be-30097e6f0ed3
[4] https://2019.foss4g.org/attending/accomodation/
[5] https://2019.foss4g.org/sponsors-2/call-for-sponsors/
[6] https://2019.foss4g.org/register/volunteers/
[7] https://2019.foss4g.org/about/spread-the-word/
[8] https://2019.foss4g.org/about/committees/
[9] https://www.facebook.com/foss4g2019bucharest
[10] https://twitter.com/foss4g
[11] https://www.instagram.com/foss4g2019/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2018 Board of Directors elections results

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Please find below the link for the results wiki page

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2018_Results

-Vasile

On 12/4/18 7:56 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear OSGeo community,

These are the results from the 2018 elections for the 4 open
seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. The results in alphabetical
order are:

* Angelos Tzotsos
* Michael Smith
* Tom Kralidis
* Victoria Rautenbach

Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections process!

Election figures are:

* Membership: 427
* Valid votes: 341

There were no scores to arbitrate.

The complete resulting Board (wiki order) for 2018/2019 is:

* María Arias de Reyna
* Astrid Emde
* Jody Garnett
* Jeff McKenna
* Helena Mitasova
* Angelos Tzotsos
* Michael Smith
* Tom Kralidis
* Victoria Rautenbach

Please congratulate the new OSGeo Directors!

The wiki page was updated with the detailed results [1].

That being said, I would like to thank all OSGeo members for taking part 
in elections and for keeping OSGeo strong. This is really important! Of 
course, we had a few glitches along the way. Thank you for patience and 
to SAC for the quick response.


Special thanks go to my CRO helpers, Vicky & Jorge, for all the energy 
and hard work committed during this very busy period. Your support means 
a lot to me!


This is also my last post as member of OSGeo Board of Directors. It was 
a great pleasure and honor to serve the community from this position. 
I'm confided that the new board will do a great job. Best of luck!


Thank you all for caring for OSGeo,
Vasile, Vicky & Jorge
CRO 2018

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2018 Board of Directors elections results

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear OSGeo community,

These are the results from the 2018 elections for the 4 open
seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. The results in alphabetical
order are:

* Angelos Tzotsos
* Michael Smith
* Tom Kralidis
* Victoria Rautenbach

Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections process!

Election figures are:

* Membership: 427
* Valid votes: 341

There were no scores to arbitrate.

The complete resulting Board (wiki order) for 2018/2019 is:

* María Arias de Reyna
* Astrid Emde
* Jody Garnett
* Jeff McKenna
* Helena Mitasova
* Angelos Tzotsos
* Michael Smith
* Tom Kralidis
* Victoria Rautenbach

Please congratulate the new OSGeo Directors!

The wiki page was updated with the detailed results [1].

That being said, I would like to thank all OSGeo members for taking part 
in elections and for keeping OSGeo strong. This is really important! Of 
course, we had a few glitches along the way. Thank you for patience and 
to SAC for the quick response.


Special thanks go to my CRO helpers, Vicky & Jorge, for all the energy 
and hard work committed during this very busy period. Your support means 
a lot to me!


This is also my last post as member of OSGeo Board of Directors. It was 
a great pleasure and honor to serve the community from this position. 
I'm confided that the new board will do a great job. Best of luck!


Thank you all for caring for OSGeo,
Vasile, Vicky & Jorge
CRO 2018

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections time 2018

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

Thanks to Tom Kralidis, I just realize that a mistake was introduced 
into the bellow message. Voting deadline is not 4th of December but 3rd 
of December, how it was reflected in all the vote messages sent to our 
charter member community. Please accept my most sincere apologies for 
this mistake. Also, please let us know if this mistake lead to 
significant problems in your voting schedule.


Thanks,
Vasile
CRO 2018



On 11/27/18 1:49 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear charter members,

It's time to vote for our new members of the board of directors. Like in 
the previous years, an electronic voting system was setup. In minutes 
from now, emails with personal voting links will be sent to all our 
charter members. If you don't receive your voting link in the next 
couple of hours please let me know at c...@osgeo.org. Before doing that 
please also check your "Spam" folder. Sending hundreds of messages at 
once is not easy and it can be interpreted as spam by some of the 
filtering systems. Also, sometimes the e-mail addresses change but the 
charter member contact database is not up to date. We will try to 
contact all the members with bounced invitations via alternative 
email/twitter/linkedin/etc to update the email account and to make sure 
that are able to vote. Also, be aware that due to some technical 
problems on OSGeo infrastructure, the invitation to vote was delayed for 
24 hours. This is why the vote period was extended with 24 hours, until 
4th of December 2018.


Thank you for supporting OSGeo!

Best,
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections time 2018

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear charter members,

It's time to vote for our new members of the board of directors. Like in 
the previous years, an electronic voting system was setup. In minutes 
from now, emails with personal voting links will be sent to all our 
charter members. If you don't receive your voting link in the next 
couple of hours please let me know at c...@osgeo.org. Before doing that 
please also check your "Spam" folder. Sending hundreds of messages at 
once is not easy and it can be interpreted as spam by some of the 
filtering systems. Also, sometimes the e-mail addresses change but the 
charter member contact database is not up to date. We will try to 
contact all the members with bounced invitations via alternative 
email/twitter/linkedin/etc to update the email account and to make sure 
that are able to vote. Also, be aware that due to some technical 
problems on OSGeo infrastructure, the invitation to vote was delayed for 
24 hours. This is why the vote period was extended with 24 hours, until 
4th of December 2018.


Thank you for supporting OSGeo!

Best,
Vasile, Vicky & Jorge
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[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2018] Board campaign period 2018

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear colleagues,

The nomination period for board members is over. The result: seven 
excellent nominations [1]. With that done, we are entering in the 
campaign phase of the elections (1 week). During this interval several 
actions are expected:


- Candidates are encouraged to put their vision and ideas for their term 
at Election 2018 Candidate Manifestos [2] and sending them to Discuss 
mailing list for further conversation;


- Our community members are encouraged to engage in discussions 
regarding the nominations and their ideas for the future of OSGeo Fundation.


Thank you,
Vasile, Vicky and Jorge
CRO 2018


[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2018
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018_Candidate_Manifestos
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Board nomination: Victoria Rautenbach

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding nomination of Victoria Rautenbach by Astrid Emde and Jeff 
McKenna. The Board Nominations page has been updated: 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2018



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CRO 2018 Elections



 Forwarded Message 
Subject: OSGeo Board nomination: Victoria Rautenbach
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 23:49:53 +0100
From: Astrid Emde (OSGeo) 
Reply-To: astrid_e...@osgeo.org
To: Cro 
CC: victoria.rautenb...@gmail.com, Jeff McKenna 



Victoria Rautenbach
Pretoria, South Africa
victoria dot rautenbach at gmail dot com

It is our honour to nominate Victoria Rautenbach for the OSGeo Board of 
Directors.


Many will know of Victoria’s effort and passion through several OSGeo 
educational activities, where she helps young students and young 
professionals become introduced to the OSGeo community of projects. She 
is both an administrator and mentor for this year’s Google Code-in 
contest (working with pre-university OSGeo students aged 13-17), and she 
has also been a mentor for the Google Summer of Code the past years 
(working with university OSGeo students).  She also helped with the UN 
OpenGIS initiative as well.


For her day job Victoria Rautenbach is a senior lecturer in the 
Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology at the 
University of Pretoria, South Africa.


She is a member of the ICA-OSGeo lab at the University of Pretoria since 
its inception in 2012. She is very passionate about the use of open 
source in education and also the increased use of open source in 
developing countries. She teaches at the University of Pretoria and 
makes use of open source GIS products in all the Geoinformatics modules 
that she teaches.


She has organized a number of OpenStreetMap mapathons and arranged 
student team participation in open data quests in South Africa.


Victoria would be a great asset to have on the Board. Please welcome her 
onto the OSGeo Board of Directors.


https://www.osgeo.org/member/rautenbach/

Astrid Emde & Jeff McKenna

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Board nomination: Steven Feldman

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding nomination of Steven Feldman by Eli Adam. The Board 
Nominations page has been updated: 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2018



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 Forwarded Message 
Subject: OSGeo Board nomination: Steven Feldman
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 11:45:51 -0800
From: Eli Adam 
Reply-To: ea...@co.lincoln.or.us
To: CRO 
CC: Steven Feldman 

Hi Vasile/CRO,

I'm nominating Steve Feldman of the UK.  He has already confirmed to me
that he will accept the nomination but you can double check with him if you
want (he's in cc).


Steven first became involved in OSGeo in 2012 when he was invited to chair
FOSS4G in Nottingham by the UK chapter. Since then he has been a Charter
Member, a former chair and now active member of the Conference Committee,
vice chair of FOSS4G UK, Treasurer of the UK chapter, has lead 2 Travel
Grant Programmes and has been an (at times noisy) advocate for OSGeo. He
brings an analytic and commercial focus and passion for the community to
all of his efforts on behalf of OSGeo.

I've had the pleasure of collaborating with Steven on various projects
through the years and can't recommend him enough.  He's logical, smart,
funny, enjoyable, hard working, effective, aware of the bigger picture, and
capable of completing the details.  He posses a depth of knowledge and life
experience of great value to OSGeo.  While possessing such background, he's
also relatable, cutting edge, and connected.  Steven also connects with
newer community members to include and mentor newer community members.  It
is with great enthusiasm that I nominate Steven Feldman for the OSGeo Board
of Directors!


Sincerely, Eli Adam

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: board nomination for Tom Kralidis

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding nomination of Tom Kralidis by Bart van den Eijnden. The Board 
Nominations page has been updated: 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2018



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CRO 2018 Elections


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: board nomination for Tom Kralidis
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 15:38:37 +0100
From: Bart van den Eijnden 
To: c...@osgeo.org
CC: tomkrali...@gmail.com

Tom Kralidis

Toronto, Canada

tomkralidis AT gmail DOT com

It is my pleasure to nominate Tom Kralidis for the OSGeo board. The 
first time I met Tom was at the MapServer User Meeting in Ottawa in 
2004. This goes to show that Tom has a long-standing involvement in Open 
Source Geospatial.


He has been an OSGeo charter member since 2007. He has contributed to 
numerous OSGeo software packages, such as MapServer, GeoNode, QGIS, 
PyWPS and OWSLib, and he is the creator of pycsw. He is also on several 
Project Steering Committees (PSCs).


Tom is also a longtime member of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), 
where he was the lead contributor to the Web Map Context specification, 
and is currently involved in development of the emerging Catalogue 
Services 4 standard.  Tom is a strong proponent of open standards as is 
evident in his numerous efforts as a developer and power user over the 
years with OSGeo tools.


Tom currently works at the Metereological Service of Canada.

Given his diverse background and dedication to open source and open 
standards, I think he would make a great OSGeo board member.


Best regards,

Bart


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2018] Board Nominations

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

With roughly two hours before the board nomination deadline, we have 
only 4 nominations for 4 seats. From what I know, this is without 
precedent in our history. As CRO, I cannot comment on the apparent low 
interest for the most important decision structure in OSGeo. However, I 
know that it's in the best interest of our community to have a real 
competition for the board of directors. That's why I propose to extend 
the nomination deadline with one more week. I'm confident that this 
extra time will help OSGeo to grow the already strong candidate list for 
our board.


Best,
Vasile


On 10/30/18 9:52 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear all,

It's time for the 2018 OSGeo Foundation Board Elections.

The nominations for the OSGeo Board of Directors started already
[1]. Please take a minute to understand what the board actually
does[2]. A director should plan to spend several hours a week on OSGeo
business in order to do a good job. The current board members will
know best.

To nominate a candidate for the board please first confirm with the
person that they would like to stand for election as a Board member.
Then send an email to c...@osgeo.org CCing the candidate by 23:59 GMT on 
Sunday 11 November 2018[3] consisting of:


- name and e-mail
- current country of residence
- a paragraph describing why you think this person would make a good
Board member.

Remember that only Charter Members are eligible for a seat on the
Board and for voting but that *anybody* can *nominate* a board member.

Candidates are encouraged to put their vision and ideas for their term 
at Election 2018 Candidate Manifestos [4] and sending them to Discuss 
mailing list for further conversation.


Thank you.

Best regards,
Vasile, Vicky & Jorge
CRO 2018 Elections

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018#Board_Election
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Director_Responsibilities
[3] 
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=2018T235959=136=OSGeo+Board+of+Directors+nominalizations+2018=cursive 


[4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018_Candidate_Manifestos
[5] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination to Malena Libman for the Board

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding nomination of Malena Libman by María Arias de Reyna. The 
Board Nominations page has been updated: 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2018



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 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Nomination to Malena Libman for the Board
Date:   Sun, 11 Nov 2018 21:09:06 +0100
From:   María Arias de Reyna 
To: CRO , Malena Libman 



Name: Malena Libman
Country of Residence: Argentina

Malena is a long time member of the Spanish OSGeo Chapter (on the 
Geoinquietos Argentina brand), although she has been elected as charter 
member only this year. She has been working with the FOSS4G Argentina 
(as chair on the latest edition), and OSM communities in Argentina 
including GeoChicas. She recently represented the Argentina Chapter at 
FOSS4G 2018, and joined the OSGeo Marketing Committee. She has a 
Technical Degree on Geographic Information Systems by the University of 
General Sarmiento and she has worked with the national SDI of Argentina 
for several years. She has been advocating for open source and open data 
for years both in her work and in her free time. Malena has inspired me 
a lot with all her work on the community of GeoInquietos Argentina and 
I'm sure she will be a great asset for the board. She is a strong woman 
with a free spirit, just what we need to fight for Open Source in 
Geospatial.

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Nicolas Bozon

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding nomination of Nicolas Bozon by Maria Brovelli. The Board 
Nominations page has been updated: 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2018



Vasile, Vicky & Jorge
CRO 2018 Elections


 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Nomination of Nicolas Bozon
Date:   Sat, 10 Nov 2018 13:11:16 +
From:   Maria Antonia Brovelli 
To: c...@osgeo.org 
CC: nicolas bozon 



Dear CRO

I would like to nominate Nicolas Bozon for the 2018 board elections.

Nicolas is an active OSGeo member from Lyon, France.
He is using and promoting OSGeo and FOSS4G since 2006 and has developed 
a global approach of open source.

He is Charter Member since 2011 and Marketing Committee member since 2012.

I had the pleasure to collaborate several times with Nicolas since we 
have meet each other in 2010. As an example, he was a key person for the 
FOSS4G-Europe 2015 communication and marketing.


Nicolas co-founded ZOO-Project and is part of its PSC since 2009. He is 
also the creator of mapskin, the geospatial webfont.
He attended many FOSS4G events since 2008, for which he is often helping 
on organization and marketing.


Nicolas is maintaining an extensive network of users, developers and 
researchers within OSGeo and beyond, in the broader geospatial community.
Active at the chapter, conference and committee levels, Nicolas is 
strongly committed to open source and has inspiring visions for our 
foundation.


Given his strong experience, his international profile and excellent 
communication skills, I believe Nicolas would be a great addition to the 
OSGeo board of directors.


Best regards

Maria


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2018] Charter Member elections results

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

OSGeo Board formally acknowledged the result of this year charter 
members elections [1]. Our website will be updated soon to reflect the 
new charter member structure.


Sadly, we have to announce that one of the most enthusiasts charter 
members, BJ Jang [2] from South Korea, passed away three weeks ago. His 
memory will live on with us.


Warm regards,
Vasile, Vicky & Jorge
CRO 2018

[1] https://www.loomio.org/d/3doBaYMp/welcome-new-charter-members-
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:BJJang

On 10/30/18 9:15 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear members of the OSGeo community,

After a period of approximately two weeks to vote, we close the 
elections[1] system to confirm and share the results.


*All* the candidates[2] are accepted as all of them were seconded by at 
least one existing charter member and no veto was raised


Hence, it's our pleasure to welcome our 35 candidates to the OSGeo
Charter Membership, increasing its size to a total of 427 individuals. 
Congratulations!


New members, we encourage you all, if not done already, to create/update 
a OSGeo Advocate profile to our wiki page[3] and to create an OSGeo 
profile page in [4] with a "website" link pointing to the OSGeo Advocate.


When approved by the OSGeo board, we will update the official list[5], 
publish the detailed elections results, pass to the secretary the 
revised contacts, and subscribe the new members to the charter-members 
list[6] as soon as possible.


Best regards,
Vasile, Vicky and Jorge
CRO 2018

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2018
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate
[4] https://www.osgeo.org
[5] https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/
[6] http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/charter-members


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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Board nomination: Angelos Tzotsos

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding nomination of Angelos Tzotsos by Astrid Emde. The Board 
Nominations page has been updated: 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2018



Vasile, Vicky & Jorge
CRO 2018 Elections


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: OSGeo Board nomination: Angelos Tzotsos
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 20:13:23 +0100
From: Astrid Emde (OSGeo) 
Reply-To: astrid_e...@osgeo.org
To: Cro 
CC: tzot...@osgeo.org

Hello,

Angelos Tzotsos
Athens, Greece
tzotsos AT osgeo DOT org

I would like to nominate Angelos Tzotsos for the OSGeo Board again. He 
is already in the board since 2016. It is a great pleasure to work with 
him in the board and also in the OSGeoLive project.


Angelos is well known in the OSGeo community. He is the chair of the 
OSGeoLive project and a project steering committee member for the pycsw 
and ZOO-Project. He is a core developer for the GeoNode project and a 
packager for several projects. He is also an individual OGC member.


Have a look at his OSGeo Advocate page to see several other projects he 
is involved in:


https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Angelos_Tzotsos

Angelos is a remote sensing expert with background in surveying 
engineering and software development. He has a good expertise and 
knowledge about OSGeo software and technology.


Angelos is very structured, reliable and he gets things done. It is a 
pleasure to discuss with him and he makes well-considered decisions.


He encourages other people to work with OSGeo and he is very motivating.

It would be great to have him in the board again.

Astrid Emde


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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Board nomination for Michael Smith

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding nomination of Michael Smith by Daniel Morissette. The Board 
Nominations page has been updated: 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2018



Vasile, Vicky & Jorge
CRO 2018 Elections


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: OSGeo Board nomination for Michael Smith
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 00:17:41 -0400
From: Daniel Morissette 
To: OSGeo CRO , Michael Smith 

Dear CRO,

I would like to nominate Michael Smith for the OSGeo Board election.

Mike works for the US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS Center 
of Expertise and has been a long time power user, supporter and 
contributor of MapServer, GDAL/OGR, PDAL and other OSGeo projects. He is 
a member of the MapServer and PDAL project PSC's and was actually one of 
the instigators behind the PDAL project, the GDAL of Point Clouds. He is 
also a FOSS4G regular and has not missed one since the 2003 MapServer 
Users Meeting AFAIK.


Mike has been active on the OSGeo Board since 2014 as treasurer. The 
great job that he does behind the scene as treasurer doesn't get noticed 
publicly by the members, but it includes several tasks and 
responsibilities which are instrumental to keeping OSGeo running smoothly.


In addition to his experience within OSGeo projects and its community, 
he also brings to the board the perspective of government organizations, 
which is a very important group of users and contributors of OSGeo software.


Plus, the voice of reason that he brings to the day to day operation of 
the board is also of great value.


All this makes him a perfect candidate to continue serving on the board.


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[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2018] Charter Member elections results

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear members of the OSGeo community,

After a period of approximately two weeks to vote, we close the 
elections[1] system to confirm and share the results.


*All* the candidates[2] are accepted as all of them were seconded by at 
least one existing charter member and no veto was raised


Hence, it's our pleasure to welcome our 35 candidates to the OSGeo
Charter Membership, increasing its size to a total of 427 individuals. 
Congratulations!


New members, we encourage you all, if not done already, to create/update 
a OSGeo Advocate profile to our wiki page[3] and to create an OSGeo 
profile page in [4] with a "website" link pointing to the OSGeo Advocate.


When approved by the OSGeo board, we will update the official list[5], 
publish the detailed elections results, pass to the secretary the 
revised contacts, and subscribe the new members to the charter-members 
list[6] as soon as possible.


Best regards,
Vasile, Vicky and Jorge
CRO 2018

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2018
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate
[4] https://www.osgeo.org
[5] https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/
[6] http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/charter-members


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[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2018] Charter Member elections results

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear members of the OSGeo community,

After a period of approximately two weeks to vote, we close the 
elections[1] system to confirm and share the results.


*All* the candidates[2] are accepted as all of them were seconded by at 
least one existing charter member and no veto was raised


Hence, it's our pleasure to welcome our 35 candidates to the OSGeo
Charter Membership, increasing its size to a total of 427 individuals. 
Congratulations!


New members, we encourage you all, if not done already, to create/update 
a OSGeo Advocate profile to our wiki page[3] and to create an OSGeo 
profile page in [4] with a "website" link pointing to the OSGeo Advocate.


When approved by the OSGeo board, we will update the official list[5], 
publish the detailed elections results, pass to the secretary the 
revised contacts, and subscribe the new members to the charter-members 
list[6] as soon as possible.


Best regards,
Vasile, Vicky and Jorge
CRO 2018

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2018
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate
[4] https://www.osgeo.org
[5] https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/
[6] http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/charter-members


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[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2018] Board Nominations

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

It's time for the 2018 OSGeo Foundation Board Elections.

The nominations for the OSGeo Board of Directors started already
[1]. Please take a minute to understand what the board actually
does[2]. A director should plan to spend several hours a week on OSGeo
business in order to do a good job. The current board members will
know best.

To nominate a candidate for the board please first confirm with the
person that they would like to stand for election as a Board member.
Then send an email to c...@osgeo.org CCing the candidate by 23:59 GMT on 
Sunday 11 November 2018[3] consisting of:


- name and e-mail
- current country of residence
- a paragraph describing why you think this person would make a good
Board member.

Remember that only Charter Members are eligible for a seat on the
Board and for voting but that *anybody* can *nominate* a board member.

Candidates are encouraged to put their vision and ideas for their term 
at Election 2018 Candidate Manifestos [4] and sending them to Discuss 
mailing list for further conversation.


Thank you.

Best regards,
Vasile, Vicky & Jorge
CRO 2018 Elections

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018#Board_Election
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Director_Responsibilities
[3] 
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=2018T235959=136=OSGeo+Board+of+Directors+nominalizations+2018=cursive

[4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018_Candidate_Manifestos
[5] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Elections 2018 update

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

One more update. Due to some technical problems, the invitations to vote 
were delayed until last Thursday. What we propose to you is to extend 
the nomination seconding period until 28th of October (10 days instead 
of one week as it was originally planed). CRO will update the dates on 
the wiki pages.


We would like to thank the SAC for all the help in setting up the 
electronic voting system and enable invitations/reminders via email.


Regards,
Vasile, Vicky and Jorge
CRO 2018

On 10/15/18 2:41 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear all,

We waited more that we initially announced to allow people to confirm 
the nomination. We are still missing two confirmation but will proceed 
with the next step, nomination seconding via electronic voting system. 
We have a week of delay but I think this is not a problem. We will 
update the wiki pages to reflect the new calendar.


Best,
Vasile

On 10/8/18 10:59 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear all,

Just a quick recap of the 2018 Elections:

- Vicky Vergara and Jorge Gustavo Rocha volunteer to help the CRO. 
Thanks!


- We got 36 valid nominations. We are still expecting some 
confirmations from the nominees. For this reasons we are extending the 
first stage of the charter members elections with 48 hours. However, 
no new nominations will be accepted. Only confirmations of nomination 
acceptance from the nominees.


- The electronic voting system is ready for charter members to second 
the nominations, preventing the last year stress of seconding via the 
discuss mailing list. Nominal vote invitations will be sent to all our 
charter members on 10 of October. Thanks to SAC for setting up the 
electronic voting system and to Vicky for her magic scripts.


Thank you all for caring about OSGeo,
Vasile + Vicky & Jorge

On 9/21/18 3:26 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear all,

This year OSGeo elections [1] will start on Monday (September 24) 
with the nomination period for new Charter Members. The nomination 
period will be open for the next two weeks. Candidate review will 
follow. This year, the review will be done through our electronic 
voting system and *not* via email, as we got so many complains last 
year because of the amount of traffic on discuss mailing list. You 
can read about the changes on the amended Membership Process wiki 
page [2].


As I'm not standing for board reelection, I volunteer to do the CRO 
[3] role one more time. OSGeo board approved this during the Dar es 
Salaam face to face meeting [4]. Any volunteers that are willing to 
do this job next year are welcome to contact me, work together for 
this elections, to make the 2019 transition smooth.


Best,
Vasile (2018 CRO)


[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process
[3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Chief_Returning_Officer
[4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Face_to_Face_Meeting_Dar_es_Salaam_2018


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Elections 2018 update

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

We waited more that we initially announced to allow people to confirm 
the nomination. We are still missing two confirmation but will proceed 
with the next step, nomination seconding via electronic voting system. 
We have a week of delay but I think this is not a problem. We will 
update the wiki pages to reflect the new calendar.


Best,
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On 10/8/18 10:59 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear all,

Just a quick recap of the 2018 Elections:

- Vicky Vergara and Jorge Gustavo Rocha volunteer to help the CRO. Thanks!

- We got 36 valid nominations. We are still expecting some confirmations 
from the nominees. For this reasons we are extending the first stage of 
the charter members elections with 48 hours. However, no new nominations 
will be accepted. Only confirmations of nomination acceptance from the 
nominees.


- The electronic voting system is ready for charter members to second 
the nominations, preventing the last year stress of seconding via the 
discuss mailing list. Nominal vote invitations will be sent to all our 
charter members on 10 of October. Thanks to SAC for setting up the 
electronic voting system and to Vicky for her magic scripts.


Thank you all for caring about OSGeo,
Vasile + Vicky & Jorge

On 9/21/18 3:26 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear all,

This year OSGeo elections [1] will start on Monday (September 24) with 
the nomination period for new Charter Members. The nomination period 
will be open for the next two weeks. Candidate review will follow. 
This year, the review will be done through our electronic voting 
system and *not* via email, as we got so many complains last year 
because of the amount of traffic on discuss mailing list. You can read 
about the changes on the amended Membership Process wiki page [2].


As I'm not standing for board reelection, I volunteer to do the CRO 
[3] role one more time. OSGeo board approved this during the Dar es 
Salaam face to face meeting [4]. Any volunteers that are willing to do 
this job next year are welcome to contact me, work together for this 
elections, to make the 2019 transition smooth.


Best,
Vasile (2018 CRO)


[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process
[3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Chief_Returning_Officer
[4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Face_to_Face_Meeting_Dar_es_Salaam_2018


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[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

Just a quick recap of the 2018 Elections:

- Vicky Vergara and Jorge Gustavo Rocha volunteer to help the CRO. Thanks!

- We got 36 valid nominations. We are still expecting some confirmations 
from the nominees. For this reasons we are extending the first stage of 
the charter members elections with 48 hours. However, no new nominations 
will be accepted. Only confirmations of nomination acceptance from the 
nominees.


- The electronic voting system is ready for charter members to second 
the nominations, preventing the last year stress of seconding via the 
discuss mailing list. Nominal vote invitations will be sent to all our 
charter members on 10 of October. Thanks to SAC for setting up the 
electronic voting system and to Vicky for her magic scripts.


Thank you all for caring about OSGeo,
Vasile + Vicky & Jorge

On 9/21/18 3:26 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear all,

This year OSGeo elections [1] will start on Monday (September 24) with 
the nomination period for new Charter Members. The nomination period 
will be open for the next two weeks. Candidate review will follow. This 
year, the review will be done through our electronic voting system and 
*not* via email, as we got so many complains last year because of the 
amount of traffic on discuss mailing list. You can read about the 
changes on the amended Membership Process wiki page [2].


As I'm not standing for board reelection, I volunteer to do the CRO [3] 
role one more time. OSGeo board approved this during the Dar es Salaam 
face to face meeting [4]. Any volunteers that are willing to do this job 
next year are welcome to contact me, work together for this elections, 
to make the 2019 transition smooth.


Best,
Vasile (2018 CRO)


[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process
[3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Chief_Returning_Officer
[4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Face_to_Face_Meeting_Dar_es_Salaam_2018


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[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

This year OSGeo elections [1] will start on Monday (September 24) with 
the nomination period for new Charter Members. The nomination period 
will be open for the next two weeks. Candidate review will follow. This 
year, the review will be done through our electronic voting system and 
*not* via email, as we got so many complains last year because of the 
amount of traffic on discuss mailing list. You can read about the 
changes on the amended Membership Process wiki page [2].


As I'm not standing for board reelection, I volunteer to do the CRO [3] 
role one more time. OSGeo board approved this during the Dar es Salaam 
face to face meeting [4]. Any volunteers that are willing to do this job 
next year are welcome to contact me, work together for this elections, 
to make the 2019 transition smooth.


Best,
Vasile (2018 CRO)


[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process
[3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Chief_Returning_Officer
[4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Face_to_Face_Meeting_Dar_es_Salaam_2018


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Elections 2017 from the CRO point of view

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Hi Bart,

I think I had something like 10-12 interactions on this subject. But is 
not that number but the fact that most of the people I discuss with had 
previous discussions in the local/project community they belong and that 
this critics have a larger number of supporters.


Best,
Vasile

On 10/30/17 2:43 PM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:

Very good point Tom.

The only public complaint I've seen about the new process was in this 
board meeting by Jeff: 
http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2017-10-05.log [1]


Vasile, can you maybe shed some light on how many people actually 
complained about it?


Personally I don't think it's a good idea to keep changing the process 
every year, and I'm happy with a more inclusive process (such as the one 
which is in place now).


Best regards,

Bart

[1]
14:16:15 	jmckenna: 	yes i have plans to go back to LimeSurvey and 
voting for 2018 for charter members, requiring 51% 'yes' votes...back to 
our old process. Important that what happened this year never happens 
again: voting process was changed in a closed door meeting.



On 30-10-17 13:27, Tom Chadwin wrote:

Dear Vasile and all

I've thought long and hard about whether to reply or not, but it has been 
bothering me, so I guess I must.


However, during the nomination
period, many of our members considered the new membership process way
too inclusive/lite, causing a diminution in the importance of the
charter member position.

As one of the intake of this year's new charter members, I find this both 
insulting and upsetting.


My recommendations for the future board are to: (a) Change the
existing membership process with another one more balanced, that assures
both inclusiveness and a consistent weight for the charter member
position.

Where does that leave those of us elected as charter members this year? Are we "lite" 
members because "many" existing members felt strongly enough about protecting the 
exclusivity of their position to complain privately to the CRO, but not strongly enough to express 
that opinion openly so that it could be discussed?

I really feel for Vasile that people expressed such a potentially toxic 
opinion, thereby absolving themselves of the responsibility of putting their 
names to it, while presumably expecting him to raise it himself, as he has so 
professionally done.

I was extremely proud to have been nominated and generously seconded. 
Recognition and reputation are significant parts of open-source currency. 
However, this attitude creates the impression that membership is a self-serving 
clique.

I would have been happy to have gone through a more rigorous nomination 
process. However I, and many of my colleagues - many much, much more respected 
than me - did not, through no fault of our own.

Let me make this clear: this issue and the way in which it has been raised, 
coupled with the white western board election results (concern about which I 
absolutely share), and also the unpleasant flavour of the board election 
through the situation with Jeff are making me question whether I should retain 
the charter membership I was so proud to attain.

Yours in frustration

Tom


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Dear Tom,

I understand the way you are feeling and I know that are reasons for 
that. I remember that I had some hard time when I did wrote that part of 
my email. However, this was reported my many persons and I had to 
include this in my message. Anyway, I don't think that a single old 
OSGeo charter member will consider the new comers as lite members. The 
quality of the new members is proven by the important number of 
seconding messages and by the fact that no veto was raised. In the early 
years of OSGeo, the membership process was a very selective one and this 
was also a subject of criticism. I can understand why moving from one 
extreme to another can cause such reactions. Personally I'm very in 
favor of an inclusive system but one with an voting mechanism. This is 
something for the community and the board to decide. The actual system 
is also a big burden to the CRO (hundreds of emails and wiki edits) and 
also a stress for our mailing list.


I can only speculate why they did not used our mailing list to express 
their opinion. Most of them are old OSGeo members and I think they did 
not want to sound like they are contesting the membership process 
(already started) or that they contest the already nominated persons. 
Not a single one contested the persons that were nominated and I'm 100% 
sure that was a genuine care not to dilute the importance of our 
membership position. Also, most of the messages were not sent to CRO 
email but over IRC/Google Hangouts and some during face to face 
meetings, just before the elections, at FOSS4G in Boston.


I will conclude by reiterating again that all the critics were on the 
membership process and not a single one about the new members. Of 
course, those critics should not be expressed now, just before, during 
or after the nomination process, but immediately after the board decided 
to change the membership process. The board decided to make the change 
during the face to face meeting in Bonn in 2016 [1]. At that time, the 
board did a poor job in communicating this change to the community. 
Actually only those members that are manually checking the meetings wiki 
pages or the OSGeo Loomio instance were aware of the change. I was also 
a board member at that time and I would like to apologize for not 
communicating better.


Best,
Vasile

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2016-8-04




On 10/30/17 2:27 PM, Tom Chadwin wrote:

Dear Vasile and all

I've thought long and hard about whether to reply or not, but it has been 
bothering me, so I guess I must.


However, during the nomination
period, many of our members considered the new membership process way
too inclusive/lite, causing a diminution in the importance of the
charter member position.


As one of the intake of this year's new charter members, I find this both 
insulting and upsetting.


My recommendations for the future board are to: (a) Change the
existing membership process with another one more balanced, that assures
both inclusiveness and a consistent weight for the charter member
position.


Where does that leave those of us elected as charter members this year? Are we "lite" 
members because "many" existing members felt strongly enough about protecting the 
exclusivity of their position to complain privately to the CRO, but not strongly enough to express 
that opinion openly so that it could be discussed?

I really feel for Vasile that people expressed such a potentially toxic 
opinion, thereby absolving themselves of the responsibility of putting their 
names to it, while presumably expecting him to raise it himself, as he has so 
professionally done.

I was extremely proud to have been nominated and generously seconded. 
Recognition and reputation are significant parts of open-source currency. 
However, this attitude creates the impression that membership is a self-serving 
clique.

I would have been happy to have gone through a more rigorous nomination 
process. However I, and many of my colleagues - many much, much more respected 
than me - did not, through no fault of our own.

Let me make this clear: this issue and the way in which it has been raised, 
coupled with the white western board election results (concern about which I 
absolutely share), and also the unpleasant flavour of the board election 
through the situation with Jeff are making me question whether I should retain 
the charter membership I was so proud to attain.

Yours in frustration

Tom


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2017 Board of Directors elections results

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Hi Helmult,

Thank you. The chart looks great! I will put the PNG file in the wiki.

Best,
Vasile

On 10/29/17 11:31 AM, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote:

I was hoping to also provide some kind of visual representation of the
vote evolution. That is the reason for the vote log publication delay.
However, other duties prevented to do so. If someone has good skills in
this area, please do create a chart of the CSV file and let's as know.
Otherwise, I will do that when the time allows me (mid next week most
probably).

Best,
Vasile
CRO 2017

[1] http://www.geo-spatial.org/file_download/29668/osgeo_board_elections.csv
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2017_Results


attached a simplified csv for input in R and a cumulative sum grafics for all 
candidates,
produced by some simple code lines in R:

data <- read.table("rinpunt.csv", header = TRUE, sep = ";")
summary(data)
attach(data)

plot(Response.ID, cumsum(Astrid.Emde), cex = .9, ylab = "cumulative sum", col = "blue", 
main = "OSGeo board election 2017")
points(Response.ID, cumsum(Maria.Arias.de.Reyna), cex = .9, , col = "green")
points(Response.ID, cumsum(Venkatesh.Raghavan), cex = .9, col = "red")
points(Response.ID, cumsum(Jody.Garnett), cex = .9, col = "yellow")
points(Response.ID, cumsum(Sanghee.Shin), cex = .9, col = "black")
points(Response.ID, cumsum(Vicky.Vergara), cex = .9, col = "orange")
points(Response.ID, cumsum(Helena.Mitasova), cex = .9, col = "orchid")
points(Response.ID, cumsum(Dirk.Frigne), cex = .9, col = "indianred")
points(Response.ID, cumsum(Jeff.McKenna), cex = .9, col = "turquoise4")


legend(269, 198, legend=c("Astrid Emde", "Maria Arias de Reyna", "Venkatesh Raghavan", "Jody Garnett", "Sanghee Shin", 
"Vicky Vergara", "Helena Mitasova", "Dirk Frigne", "Jeff McKenna"),
col=c("blue", "green", "red", "yellow", "black", "orange", "orchid", "indianred", 
"turquoise4"), cex=0.8, pch = c(21,21,21,21,21,21,21,21,21), pt.cex = 0.9)

Kind regards
Helmut

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[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

As promised, a CSV with the vote log was published [1]. The election 
result wiki page [2] was updated with this info. The file is not 
necessarily pretty (e.g. columns names are ridiculous long). However, I 
did not want to make any edits on the raw export from LimeSurvey. Anyone 
looking into this file should be aware of at least two things:


- "Yes" means that the member voted for the nominee. "No" means that the 
member did not select the nominee in his vote. We had no procedure to 
vote against a certain nominee. "No" it's just the way LimeSurvey is 
recording the results.


- The file includes the "not finished votes". These votes were not 
considered in the final vote cont as the members did not finish the 
voting procedure.


I was hoping to also provide some kind of visual representation of the 
vote evolution. That is the reason for the vote log publication delay. 
However, other duties prevented to do so. If someone has good skills in 
this area, please do create a chart of the CSV file and let's as know. 
Otherwise, I will do that when the time allows me (mid next week most 
probably).


Best,
Vasile
CRO 2017

[1] http://www.geo-spatial.org/file_download/29668/osgeo_board_elections.csv
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2017_Results

On 10/26/17 10:08 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear OSGeo community,

These are the results from the 2017 elections for the 5 open
seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. The results in alphabetical
order are:

* Astrid Emde
* Jody Garnett
* Jeff McKenna
* Helena Mitasova
* María Arias de Reyna

Thanks to all candidates to ongoing through the elections process. 
Election figures are:


* Membership: 390
* Valid votes: 308
* Not finished votes: 5
* Not voted: 77

There were no scores to arbitrate. One candidate withdraw during the 
voting period. A final position is expected from the candidate ASAP. 
Thank you all who voted!!


The complete resulting Board (wiki order) for 2017/2018 is:

* Vasile Craciunescu
* Maria Antonia Brovelli
* Michael Smith
* Angelos Tzotsos
* Astrid Emde
* Jody Garnett
* Jeff McKenna
* Helena Mitasova
* María Arias de Reyna

Personally I just want to express my joy for the excellent scores of our 
ladies candidates, elected or not.


Please congratulate the new OSGeo Directors!

My job as CRO is almost finished now, I will update the wiki with the
detailed results (CSV with every vote and the timestamp) as soon as 
possible.


Best,
Vasile
CRO 2017

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2017 Board of Directors elections results

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Hey Maria,

Sorry for the mistake. I was doing that during a very dense conference. 
Anyway, I did not make the same mistake on the wiki page (I did another 
one but this is not the point now :)


Welcome to the board!

Best,
Vasile

PS Enjoy the wonderful Argentinian asado! I have terrible flash backs!

On 10/27/17 12:38 AM, María Arias de Reyna wrote:
Thanks to all the members who participated and specially those who voted 
for me. I will try to make you proud of your decision! We will drink 
argentinian beers to celebrate this is finally over!


And I know Vasile needs to rest because he was unable to order 
alphabetically properly :) My last name is Arias de Reyna. Confusing, I 
know :)


El 26 oct. 2017 18:24, "Vasile Craciunescu" <vas...@geo-spatial.org 
<mailto:vas...@geo-spatial.org>> escribió:


Dear all,

Please accept my apologies for not including in my message the
elections results wiki page [1]. I did setup that page before
sending the email. I was just too tired after a full conference day
here in Bucharest. Tomorrow I will add the full elections log.

Best,
Vasile

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2017_Results
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2017_Results>


On 10/26/17 10:08 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear OSGeo community,

These are the results from the 2017 elections for the 5 open
seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. The results in alphabetical
order are:

* Astrid Emde
* Jody Garnett
* Jeff McKenna
* Helena Mitasova
* María Arias de Reyna

Thanks to all candidates to ongoing through the elections
process. Election figures are:

* Membership: 390
* Valid votes: 308
* Not finished votes: 5
* Not voted: 77

There were no scores to arbitrate. One candidate withdraw during
the voting period. A final position is expected from the
candidate ASAP. Thank you all who voted!!

The complete resulting Board (wiki order) for 2017/2018 is:

* Vasile Craciunescu
* Maria Antonia Brovelli
* Michael Smith
* Angelos Tzotsos
* Astrid Emde
* Jody Garnett
* Jeff McKenna
* Helena Mitasova
* María Arias de Reyna

Personally I just want to express my joy for the excellent
scores of our ladies candidates, elected or not.

Please congratulate the new OSGeo Directors!

My job as CRO is almost finished now, I will update the wiki
with the
detailed results (CSV with every vote and the timestamp) as soon
as possible.

Best,
Vasile
CRO 2017

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2017 Board of Directors elections results

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

Please accept my apologies for not including in my message the elections 
results wiki page [1]. I did setup that page before sending the email. I 
was just too tired after a full conference day here in Bucharest. 
Tomorrow I will add the full elections log.


Best,
Vasile

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2017_Results


On 10/26/17 10:08 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear OSGeo community,

These are the results from the 2017 elections for the 5 open
seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. The results in alphabetical
order are:

* Astrid Emde
* Jody Garnett
* Jeff McKenna
* Helena Mitasova
* María Arias de Reyna

Thanks to all candidates to ongoing through the elections process. 
Election figures are:


* Membership: 390
* Valid votes: 308
* Not finished votes: 5
* Not voted: 77

There were no scores to arbitrate. One candidate withdraw during the 
voting period. A final position is expected from the candidate ASAP. 
Thank you all who voted!!


The complete resulting Board (wiki order) for 2017/2018 is:

* Vasile Craciunescu
* Maria Antonia Brovelli
* Michael Smith
* Angelos Tzotsos
* Astrid Emde
* Jody Garnett
* Jeff McKenna
* Helena Mitasova
* María Arias de Reyna

Personally I just want to express my joy for the excellent scores of our 
ladies candidates, elected or not.


Please congratulate the new OSGeo Directors!

My job as CRO is almost finished now, I will update the wiki with the
detailed results (CSV with every vote and the timestamp) as soon as 
possible.


Best,
Vasile
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2017 Board of Directors elections results

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear OSGeo community,

These are the results from the 2017 elections for the 5 open
seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. The results in alphabetical
order are:

* Astrid Emde
* Jody Garnett
* Jeff McKenna
* Helena Mitasova
* María Arias de Reyna

Thanks to all candidates to ongoing through the elections process. 
Election figures are:


* Membership: 390
* Valid votes: 308
* Not finished votes: 5
* Not voted: 77

There were no scores to arbitrate. One candidate withdraw during the 
voting period. A final position is expected from the candidate ASAP. 
Thank you all who voted!!


The complete resulting Board (wiki order) for 2017/2018 is:

* Vasile Craciunescu
* Maria Antonia Brovelli
* Michael Smith
* Angelos Tzotsos
* Astrid Emde
* Jody Garnett
* Jeff McKenna
* Helena Mitasova
* María Arias de Reyna

Personally I just want to express my joy for the excellent scores of our 
ladies candidates, elected or not.


Please congratulate the new OSGeo Directors!

My job as CRO is almost finished now, I will update the wiki with the
detailed results (CSV with every vote and the timestamp) as soon as 
possible.


Best,
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Elections 2017 from the CRO point of view

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear Board directors and dear members of OSGeo community,

This year elections [1] will end in less than 7 hours and it is time for 
me, as CRO, to make a short assessment and to issue a few recommendations.


As you all know, during the process we had a few situations that caused 
tension and discontent to an important number of our members. I will go 
through the most important ones.


1. This year membership process [2] was a very lite one. The basic rule 
for becoming a charter member was to be nominated by one existing member 
and to be seconded by at least one other existing member. This lite 
approach was in line with the new OSGeo Vision and Mission Statement 
which is focused on being inclusive [3]. However, during the nomination 
period, many of our members considered the new membership process way 
too inclusive/lite, causing a diminution in the importance of the 
charter member position. Another subject that produced criticism was 
related to the fact that some of the nominations were considered short 
in content and did not offer enough information on the "positive 
attributes" [4] that a potential member shall have. Finally, one of the 
charter member responsibilities [5], "Be aware of and protect against a 
takeover of OSGeo by single group or viewpoint.", was also a subject of 
dispute. My recommendations for the future board are to: (a) Change the 
existing membership process with another one more balanced, that assures 
both inclusiveness and a consistent weight for the charter member 
position. Of course, this new mechanism should be discussed with the 
community; (b) Impose a a very light template for the new nominations. 
This way, all the nominations will be consistent and comparable. (c) 
Rephrase responsibility no. 3 of the charter members. The meaning should 
be kept bu the wording should not sound that martial.


2. Jeff was nominated for the board of directors while was serving as 
co-CRO. Even if the nominee steeped down immediately from the co-CRO 
position, the access to the c...@osgeo.org was immediately cut-off and he 
never had access to the electronic voting system, criticism over the 
potential conflict of interest and elections credibility was raised. My 
recommendation for the board is to make a specific rule that a 
nomination/candidacy for/from a person that is acting as CRO or has any 
other role in the election management is not acceptable.


3. During the voting period Jeff sent a request to withdraw from the 
elections due to the negative feedback. This also started a vivid 
debate. My recommendation for the board is to create a clear rule 
stating that an accepted nomination cannot be withdraw after the start 
of the voting period. Of course, elected persons can always resign for 
various reasons.


Regarding the current status of the elections. 311 from a total of 390 
members voted (80%). Due to the final reminder sent today there are 
chances to improve the voting participation.


In my previous message I was proposing to accept Jeff's withdraw request 
but to continue the elections without any modification to the voting 
list. After more study on different voting systems and after going 
through your feedback, my decision and proposal for the board is not to 
admit the request from Jeff. Such requests are not possible in this kind 
of elections elsewhere. It is true that we have no specific rule for 
that in our bylaws. As I mentioned before, this should change. After the 
release of the elections results, and if Jeff is elected, it's up to him 
to decide if he goes on with the mandate or if he is resigning. This 
decision should be a very fast one, without further discussions on the 
mailing list, with all the possible arguments being already on the table.


The other option that the board can consider is to entirely restart the 
board elections cycle (or only the voting part for the remaining 8 
nominations). Even if this looks like the most correct way to go, 
looking on how the elections went before and after Jeff announcement, I 
can say, without disclosing anything about the final results, that the 
announcement did not changed the way people were voting. Of course, this 
is not a fact, is just my conclusion after looking at the trends. After 
the elections, beside the final numbers, I will also publish the 
evolution of the votes (every single vote and the timestamp, anonymized 
of course). Other important reasons for the board not to start new 
elections are: (a) The community is very irritated about this never 
ending stories and people are waiting to move forward and do the things 
we usually do. For most of them, the arguments for restarting the 
elections are not strong enough; (b) Four of our current board members 
are also running in this elections. Although that personally I have no 
doubts that each one of them will position/vote/decide correctly, only 
in the interest of the community, some objections on the 
position/vote/decision 

[OSGeo-Discuss] Elections deadline extension by 24h

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

I was just notified by one of our charter members (thank you, Jody!) 
about a mistake in the vote invitation email. The email contains this 
phrase "The deadline for this election is 23:59 GMT Tuesday 25th October 
2017". Of course, Tuesday is today and today is the deadline according 
with our official calendar. However, just to make sure no one is mislead 
by this phrasing, I will extend the voting period with 24 hours. Is my 
mistake and I would like to apologize for this as is adding more 
problems an an already complicated situation. Hopefully, more members 
will have the chance to vote. Until now, 277 from the total of 390 
charter members voted. Later tonight I will also publicly sent my 
position to the board on the situation caused by Jeff's request to 
withdraw from elections.


Thank you for your patience!

Best,
Vasile
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[Vasile Craciunescu]

On 10/22/17 9:00 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
This could all be solved by having a vote system that allows voters to 
modify their votes at any point up to the closing time.


  Can that be done with the current software system? Can it be 
retrospectively done with the current *election*? :)


No. Votes are anonymized. Cannot be changed as we have no link between 
the user ID and their votes.


Best,
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Re: withdrawal from Board election

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Even's opinion on the subject.

Best,
Vasile
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Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] withdrawal from Board election
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 16:27:45 +0200
From: Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com>
To: Barry Rowlingson <b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk>, Vasile Craciunescu 
<vas...@geo-spatial.org>


On dimanche 22 octobre 2017 14:33:30 CEST Barry Rowlingson wrote:

My proposal to the Board and the OSGeo charter members is to leave the

> list as it is and make sure that the people that did not vote yet are
> aware of Jeff's request to withdraw from the Board elections.

No, this is completely off. If a candidate withdraws during an election,
you should declare the current ballot void and start a new one without the
withdrawn candidate.

Leaving the ballot running, but telling people who have not voted yet that
one candidate has withdrawn is *unfair* to those who already voted.

I would hope that running a ballot is low-enough cost that this doesn't
have a cost impact, unlike a paper election!

If Jeff had been elected to the board and then resigned the day after the
election then I assume there's regulations for having new by-elections for
vacant seats, but this situation is not the same.



I had a quick search in the bylaws and as far as I can see, there's no 
provison for a candidate withdrawing during the election time.
For what is worth, in France for presidential election, once the 
candidatures have been approved as valid, a candidate can no longer 
withdraw (the election would be re-run only in the case where a 
candidate would die or some force majeure impeaching him). If there are 
laws of Delaware on the subject, they would probably be a better fit in 
that instance...
So my view on this situation would be to proceed to the end of the 
election with the initial list of candidates. And there are 3 possible 
outcomes:

* candidate wanting to withdraw is finally not elected. Life goes on
* candidate is elected, and immediately resigns. Then my understanding 
of bylaws ("Section 3.7. Vacancies") is that the remaining directors 
will elect someone to fill the seat

* candidate is elected, and doesn't resign. Life goes on

Re-running elections could result in a almost endless loop in case 
individuals organize a plot to propose candidates and that they resign 
during the election (until we go short of charter members to be 
elligible :-) And, in fact, nothing probably formally prevents a 
candidate that has withdrawned to be a candidate again...)


(I dropped-off discuss@lists.osgeo.org from my reply to limit the 
trafic, but if Vasile prefers to make it public, or incorporate some of 
it in a message, no problem)


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] withdrawal from Board election

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Barry,

I fully agree with you that a complete restart is the fairest way to go. 
However, people are getting really tired with this subject and some 
already unsubscribe from this mailing list. Also, not sure if this 
should be my call or the board should formally decide on this. Probably 
should be me, as four of the board are standing for reelection. I know 
that most of you are irritated by the amount of emails that circulate 
this days on the mailing list but I would like to hear more opinions on 
this subject before taking a decision.


Best,
Vasile
CRO 2017


On 10/22/17 4:33 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:



My proposal to the Board and the OSGeo charter members is to leave the
list as it is and make sure that the people that did not vote yet are
aware of Jeff's request to withdraw from the Board elections.


No, this is completely off. If a candidate withdraws during an election, 
you should declare the current ballot void and start a new one without 
the withdrawn candidate.
Leaving the ballot running, but telling people who have not voted yet 
that one candidate has withdrawn is *unfair* to those who already voted.


I would hope that running a ballot is low-enough cost that this doesn't 
have a cost impact, unlike a paper election!


If Jeff had been elected to the board and then resigned the day after 
the election then I assume there's regulations for having new 
by-elections for vacant seats, but this situation is not the same.


Barry




I can
insert the information in the reminder mail that I'm planing to submit
tonight/Monday morning.

Best,
Vasile
CRO 2017


[1] http://www.geo-spatial.org/osgeo/bucuresti2017



On 10/21/17 3:34 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
 > Dear CRO,
 >
 > Please accept my withdrawal from the Board election.  I am sorry to
 > cause all of the problems so clearly explained by so many here
publicly
 > this election.
 >
 > I wish to take the time now to thank all of the candidates for
 > volunteering their time for the OSGeo community.
 >
 > Yours,
 >
 > -Jeff McKenna
 >
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Jeff McKenna

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear Eli,

I appreciate your concerns related to OSGeo board elections. However, I 
have a few points to make. This year we had 2 CRO people, not just one. 
In your message on this topic you always make it sound like the CRO 
ended up in a conflict position and this is not entirely true. Actually, 
during the board meeting when the CRO position was decided I was the one 
stepping up for this role. During that meeting Jeff was invited to 
manage this year Sol Katz award so he was also present. Next topic item 
was the CRO, the moment when Jeff offered his help for CRO, as he did in 
most of the previous years. The log is available at [1]. The board 
motion was to have two CRO for elections. And Jeff did an wonderful job 
during the new charter members nomination process. Then, Jeff stepped 
down immediately after his nomination for the board members elections. 
He never had access to the electronic voting system (that was setup a 
week later) and his access to c...@osgeo.org email was cutoff a few hours 
later. Personally I share your position that a CRO should not be in the 
situation to be nominated for a position in the elections that he/she is 
managing. However, in this case, OSGeo had the position covered and the 
changes were done transparently. I know for a fact that Jeff din not 
think about a nomination when offered his help. It happen and he resign 
from his position to remove the conflict. At that moment I have asked 
Jorge for help for technical problems (not as co-CRO as this should 
require board acceptance and the time was short). All this elections 
discussions, starting with Jeff resignation, were performed through CRO 
email alias and I can make that public if any concerns regarding the 
impartiality/transparency of the elections are raised by you or by 
anyone else.


Best,
Vasile
CRO 2017


[1] http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2017-04-12.log


On 10/18/17 10:15 PM, Eli Adam wrote:

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Jody Garnett  wrote:

Eli the board did not deliberate, you can see the board email list. I have
been glad for individual such as yourself caring, speaking up, and hopefully
attending the next board meeting.



I thought that this issue might have been of enough concern for the
Board to deliberate it.  Indeed, I thought that Venka's earlier
comment was an indication that that might happen.



I think we have all learned a lot this election period, and cannot thank the
cro enough for keeping up.



CRO is a very large and difficult job.  Yes, great thanks to the CROs.


I trust the next board meeting will provide an update from the cro and an
opportunity for discussion. The board is in a strange situation during
elections, handing over control of the process to the CRO, and with 1/2 the
participants at the end of their term. If you track the most recent board
meetings several items have been deferred to the next board, so I understand
the board not feeling able to deliberate in the middle of elections.



Yes, the Board appoints the CRO(s) to run the elections for them.
While the Board can defer some things to future Boards (especially
future looking things), the Board is responsible for anything that
arises while they are on duty.


It is also important to trust the CRO to act in good faith on behalf of our
organization. I did speak up when I was concerned that member list had not
been updated and would interfere in the CRO performing their task - but that
was it.



I largely believe that once a task is delegated, that person has the
latitude to act.  In this case, I would have thought it was worth
deliberation and consultation with the CRO on how they want to run
elections that don't go exactly following the process.


This is a hard lesson to learn, when to deliberate and when to encourage.
Many of the deliberations about foss4g affordability were left until the
Boston F2F meeting, to avoid distracting from the excellent work being done
by the BLOC. If if well intentioned, deliberating during the course of an
activity can distract contributors and bring out feelings of "why bother". I
think this was the bickering referenced during the candidates debate
yesterday.

Finally as a candidate in this election I could not see a clear way to
deliberate the current election that would not be viewed as a personal
attack, or dismissed as campaigning.



This seems rather straight forward.  For the Board to deliberate this
manner fairly, directors like you who are running for reelection would
be obligated to show up for quorum and abstain from discussion and
voting.  The issue would be decided by the portion of the Board with
their term running until 2018 and those who are not running for
reelection.  But yes, I do see how you personally would be hampered
from really engaging this topic.

Best regards, Eli



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On 18 October 2017 at 10:23, Eli Adam  wrote:


On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Jorge Sanz 

[OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections status - day 1

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

At the end of the first day of voting (I mean, end of the day for me, in 
Europe) we got exactly 100 votes (25.6%). I guess this is not bad. I 
encourage everyone to vote ASAP. After a number of reports, we know that 
an important number of members with Gmail e-mail accounts got the 
invitation in the spam folder. If you are using an Gmail account in your 
relation with OSGeo, please check your spam folder. On Monday I intend 
to do an effort an manually send voting links to all Gmail account that 
did note vote until that moment. You can save a lot of my time if you 
check your spam folder :)


Also, if you change your work place in the last year and you are not 
using the old email address please let me know to update our records. 
Generally is not a good practice to use your work e-mail address for 
your relation with OSGeo, as jobs can change with time. For the future 
elections I will recommend the board to change the new charter members 
nomination procedure and request the person who is nominating a 
candidate to forward the nominee personal email. This will save a lot of 
time for future CRO and will make the election process more smooth.


That's all for the moment. Thank you for your support for OSGeo! New 
updates in the days to follow.


Best,
Vasile
CRO 2017
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections time

[Vasile Craciunescu]

The change was to lower the minimum number of votes to 1. Sorry for not 
including the information in previous message.


-Vasile
CRO 2017

On 10/18/17 1:42 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear all,

Based on the feedback received from two of our members (thank you 
Dimitris and Gert-Jan), I did a small change in the voting system. The 
change is on the number of votes than one can cast. The initial system 
was maximum 5, minimum 5, which does not make sense if you want to 
abstain on more than 5 nominations (the rule was inherit from the survey 
template used last year). Also, according to our process rules  "You can 
cast up to 5 votes, for 5 different people." [1]. Now, before making 
this change, 35 people already voted. The votes are anonymized but I can 
go through Limesurvey setting to check if is possible to reset someone 
votes. Please let me know on c...@osgeo.org if you already voted and you 
were unhappy with the fact that the system forced you to cast 5 votes.


Best,
Vasile
CRO 2017

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2017

On 10/18/17 11:57 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear charter members,

It's time to vote for our new members of the board of directors. Like 
in the previous years, an electronic voting system was setup. In 
minutes from now, emails with personal voting links will be sent to 
all our charter members. If you don't receive your voting link in the 
next couple of hours please let me know at c...@osgeo.org. Before doing 
that please also check your "Spam" folder. Sending hundreds of 
messages at once is not easy and it can be interpreted as spam by some 
of the filtering systems. Also, sometimes the e-mail addresses change 
but the charter member contact database is not up to date. I will try 
to contact all the members with bounced invitations via alternative 
email/twitter/linkedin/etc to update the email account and to make 
sure that are able to vote.


Thank you for supporting OSGeo!

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections time

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

Based on the feedback received from two of our members (thank you 
Dimitris and Gert-Jan), I did a small change in the voting system. The 
change is on the number of votes than one can cast. The initial system 
was maximum 5, minimum 5, which does not make sense if you want to 
abstain on more than 5 nominations (the rule was inherit from the survey 
template used last year). Also, according to our process rules  "You can 
cast up to 5 votes, for 5 different people." [1]. Now, before making 
this change, 35 people already voted. The votes are anonymized but I can 
go through Limesurvey setting to check if is possible to reset someone 
votes. Please let me know on c...@osgeo.org if you already voted and you 
were unhappy with the fact that the system forced you to cast 5 votes.


Best,
Vasile
CRO 2017

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2017

On 10/18/17 11:57 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear charter members,

It's time to vote for our new members of the board of directors. Like in 
the previous years, an electronic voting system was setup. In minutes 
from now, emails with personal voting links will be sent to all our 
charter members. If you don't receive your voting link in the next 
couple of hours please let me know at c...@osgeo.org. Before doing that 
please also check your "Spam" folder. Sending hundreds of messages at 
once is not easy and it can be interpreted as spam by some of the 
filtering systems. Also, sometimes the e-mail addresses change but the 
charter member contact database is not up to date. I will try to contact 
all the members with bounced invitations via alternative 
email/twitter/linkedin/etc to update the email account and to make sure 
that are able to vote.


Thank you for supporting OSGeo!

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2017] Board Campaign period

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

Please accept my apologies for announcing this so late. Due to the 
received requests, the campaign period was extended for two more days. 
All the charter members will receive voting links on Wednesday morning.


Best,
Vasile
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On 10/9/17 5:51 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear all,

The nomination period ended more than half a day ago. We got 9 excellent 
nominations [1]. According with the 2017 election calendar[2], we have a 
week for campaign. During  this week the candidates are encouraged to 
put their vision and ideas for their term at Election 2017 Candidate 
Manifestos[3] and sending them to discuss mailing list for further 
conversation. Seconding is still possible and questions for the nominees 
from the community are welcome.


Best,
Vasile
CRO 2017


[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2017
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] elections 2017: proposal to postpone opening of the polling stations

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Hi Jody, Gert-Jan, Maxi, Steven and others,

I will start with Jody's message. It's true that the charter members 
list on the OSGeo website was updated only yesterday. However, this has 
no impact on the voting system which is not using the web page list but 
the tables from OSGeo Dropbox account. Those files were updated the 
second day after the end of the nomination process. Regarding the board 
approval of the new charter member list I would like to make a comment. 
The board was asked to formally approve the result of the nomination 
process. That means that the board acknowledge that the nomination 
process was carried out according with the rules. The board has no right 
to reject an individual membership if the nomination process was correct.


Regarding the request to extent the initial election calendar. Although 
personally I had no problem in grasping the information from coming from 
Jeff, I agree that some time may be required if new discussions will 
spark (especially because weekend started). However, I think we already 
had too much traffic on the discuss mailing list with this topic and 
this can scare some of our recipients. I'm ready to extend the deadline 
with *two days* but only to give a chance to people that are leaving for 
the weekend to read the emails and, eventually, respond. Please don't 
make this thread personally and refrain from posting redundant information.


Best,
Vasile
CRO 2017

On 10/13/17 8:44 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:

Gert-Jan:

More seriously although the nomination process for members was 
completed, and accepted by the board, the list of voting members was 
only updated last night.


I would be happy to formally request the CRO for an extension for one 
week - as we have some 70 individuals who have not been able to 
participate this week!


I note that the CRO is an independent officer and these elections are in 
full swing. So while the board may make a formal request we have to 
respect the independence of the role.


On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 11:21 AM Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl) 
> wrote:


Dear CRO (and Board Member nominees, and fellow voting members),

In the original planning for the 2017 elections, the campaign week would
end this Sunday, and the virtual polling stations would open their
virtual door this Monday.
However, over the last 2 hours our mailboxes have been flooded by a
large number of mails, that now only answer question posed earlier this
week, but of course also raise new questions.

To me, two important values of our organisation are openness and
discussion. The fact our mailing list is called "discuss" is a fine
example of that!

Therefore, I would like to ask the CRO to extend the campaign week, in
order for all voter to be able to read all the mail, think their content
over, form an opinion, and discuss that opinion with others. The
insights Jeff has brought us today are simply too much too think over
and mentally process in just one weekend. One has got to have a day off
with our friend as family as well. don't we?


I don't don't if I ((as a Charter Member) can make this as a formal
motion, but I'm almost sure that no-one involved in this election will
object. (OK, the nominees will have to cross their fingers a few days
longer to see if they will be elected. Sorry for that). All for the good
of the democratic process and the openness of our Foundation!


Kind regards,

Gert-Jan
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2017] Board Campaign period

[Vasile Craciunescu]

One more thing, upon board nomination, Jeff stepped down from the co-CRO 
position. Jorge will help me out with some of the technicalities. During 
the last few weeks Jeff did a tremendous amount of work as co-CRO and I 
would like to publicly thank him for that. I also thank Jorge for being 
supportive as always.


Best,
Vasile

On 10/9/17 5:51 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear all,

The nomination period ended more than half a day ago. We got 9 excellent 
nominations [1]. According with the 2017 election calendar[2], we have a 
week for campaign. During  this week the candidates are encouraged to 
put their vision and ideas for their term at Election 2017 Candidate 
Manifestos[3] and sending them to discuss mailing list for further 
conversation. Seconding is still possible and questions for the nominees 
from the community are welcome.


Best,
Vasile
CRO 2017


[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2017
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2017
[3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2017_Candidate_Manifestos


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[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2017] Board Campaign period

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

The nomination period ended more than half a day ago. We got 9 excellent 
nominations [1]. According with the 2017 election calendar[2], we have a 
week for campaign. During  this week the candidates are encouraged to 
put their vision and ideas for their term at Election 2017 Candidate 
Manifestos[3] and sending them to discuss mailing list for further 
conversation. Seconding is still possible and questions for the nominees 
from the community are welcome.


Best,
Vasile
CRO 2017


[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2017
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2017
[3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2017_Candidate_Manifestos
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[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2017] Board Nominations

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

It's time for the 2017 OSGeo Foundation Board Elections.

The nominations for the OSGeo Board of Directors start today
[1]. Please take a minute to understand what the board actually
does[2]. A director should plan to spend several hours a week on OSGeo
business in order to do a good job. The current board members will
know best.

To nominate a candidate for the board please first confirm with the
person that they would like to stand for election as a Board member.
Then send an email to c...@osgeo.org CCing the candidate by 12:00 GMT
on Sunday 08.10.2017[3] consisting of:

- name and e-mail
- current country of residence
- a paragraph describing why you think this person would make a good
Board member.

Remember that only Charter Members are eligible for a seat on the
Board and for voting but that *anybody* can *nominate* a board member.

Last years, the nominated persons were asked, after public nomination, 
to write some kind of manifesto about their plans for their term [4].

This is not mandatory at all but a good starting point for discussions
and to let the community know what are your ideas about the
Foundation.

Thank you.

Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
CRO 2017 Elections

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2017#Board_Election
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Director_Responsibilities
[3] 
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20171008T235959=136=OSGeo+Board+of+Directors+nominalizations+2017=cursive

[4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2017_Candidate_Manifestos

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[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2017] Charter Member nomination results

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear members of the OSGeo community,

After a period of three weeks, we close the membership process to
confirm and share the results.

*All* the candidates[1][2] are accepted as all of them:

- were nominated by an existing charter member;
- were seconded by at least one charter member;
- no veto votes registered.

Hence, it is our pleasure to welcome our 78 candidates to the OSGeo
Charter Membership, increasing its size to a total of 390 individuals. 
Congratulations!


New members, we encourage you all to update your wiki profiles with the
Charter Member badge[3], adding yourselves to the category[4] and
finally if you have not yet done so, add your profile to the OSGeo
Advocates list[5].

We will inform the board for formal acceptance of the list, update the 
official list[6], pass to the secretary the revised contacts, and 
subscribe the new members to the charter-members list[7]

as soon as possible.

Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
CRO 2017 Elections

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2017
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members
[4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:OSGeo_Charter_Member
[5] 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#Process_for_becoming_an_OSGeo_Advocate

[6] http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members
[7] http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/charter-members


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2017 membership process update

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

I'd like to let you know that all the nominated persons got seconded (no 
veto recorded) and after the board formal approval they will all be 
officially recognized as OSGeo charter members. However, because of the 
large number of nominations, we a slight delay in our 2017 elections 
initial schedule. That's why I propose you to postpone until next Monday 
the start of the new board members elections. This will give us time to 
properly update the charter member database and for the board to 
validate the new members. Also, due to the high number of emails managed 
by the CROs during the last weeks, one nomination was not processed. We 
would like to express our most sincerer apologies for this unfortunate 
situation. To fix this, we propose to make an exception, to accept the 
nomination and to allow 24 hours for the community to review/second the 
nomination.


Thank you all for supporting OSGeo!

Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

On 2017-09-14 12:39, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear all,

We remind you that the community review of nominations stage of this
year membership process [1] is ending at midnight. Until then you can
still second nominations or send feedback to CRO.

Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2017
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017

On 9/1/17 2:46 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear all,

Please let us give you some updates on the membership process (charter 
members nomination) [1]. Until now we got 50 nominations. 40 nominees 
already confirm the nomination and that was reflected on this mailing 
list and the New Member Nominations 2017 wiki page [2]. Please be 
aware that the table is not reflecting yet all the endorsements 
received by the nominees. It's quite challenging to keep up with that. 
This information will be updated during the weekend and one more time 
before the nomination period end. Also, the user profile link was not 
included for the nominees.  This will also be reviewed during the 
weekend. Some people raise concerns about the phrase "be aware of and 
protect against a hostile takeover of OSGeo". The reasons for this 
wording were explained by some of our colleagues here and the subject 
will be included in one of the next board meetings. That's all for the 
moment. Thank you for caring about our community!


Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

PS If you decide to nominate a person as charter member, please 
include the nominee *e-mail address and the country*. Thank you!


[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2017 membership process update

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

We remind you that the community review of nominations stage of this 
year membership process [1] is ending at midnight. Until then you can 
still second nominations or send feedback to CRO.


Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2017
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017

On 9/1/17 2:46 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear all,

Please let us give you some updates on the membership process (charter 
members nomination) [1]. Until now we got 50 nominations. 40 nominees 
already confirm the nomination and that was reflected on this mailing 
list and the New Member Nominations 2017 wiki page [2]. Please be aware 
that the table is not reflecting yet all the endorsements received by 
the nominees. It's quite challenging to keep up with that. This 
information will be updated during the weekend and one more time before 
the nomination period end. Also, the user profile link was not included 
for the nominees.  This will also be reviewed during the weekend. Some 
people raise concerns about the phrase "be aware of and protect against 
a hostile takeover of OSGeo". The reasons for this wording were 
explained by some of our colleagues here and the subject will be 
included in one of the next board meetings. That's all for the moment. 
Thank you for caring about our community!


Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

PS If you decide to nominate a person as charter member, please include 
the nominee *e-mail address and the country*. Thank you!


[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination for Ben Lewis

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Ben Lewis nomination by Andy Anderson. The 2017 member 
nominations list was updated [1].


Best regards,
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2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination for Ben Lewis
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 03:13:47 +
From: Andy Anderson 
To: c...@osgeo.org 
CC: Lewis, Benjamin 

I would like to nominate Ben Lewis for charter membership.

Ben is system architect and project manager of Harvard WorldMap [1], an 
open-source infrastructure to support collaborative research around 
geospatial information.  Ben is also leading a team to build an 
open-source global registry of web map services (Harvard Hypermap [2]) 
and another to develop the Billion Object Platform [3], which supports 
interactive exploration of billions of spatio-temporal things. As a 
member of the Boston Local Organizing Committee and the Program 
Subcommittee, Ben helped put together the International FOSS4G 2017 
conference this August.


[1] http://worldmap.harvard.edu/
[2] 
http://www.gis.harvard.edu/publications/harvard-hypermap-open-source-framework-making-world’s-geospatial-information-more
[3] 
http://www.gis.harvard.edu/services/project-consultation/project-resume/billion-object-platform-bop


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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination for Mikel Maron

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Mikel Maron nomination by Jeffrey Johnson. 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 for Mikel Maron
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 19:27:40 -0700
From: Jeffrey Johnson 
To: c...@osgeo.org 
CC: Mikel Maron 

Hi CRO,

I would like to nominate Mikel Maron as a Charter Member of OSGeo

Mikel has been a long time collaborator and contributor to Open Source
and Open Data geospatial projects including being one of the earliest
contributors to OpenStreetMap and providing leadership throughout its
history. He currently leads the Community Team at Mapbox and was
formerly a Presidential Innovation Fellow at the US State Department
helping to drive OpenStreetMap adoption across federal agencies. He is
co-founder of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, co-founder of Map
Kibera and GroundTruth Initiative and current Board member of the
OpenStreetMap Foundation.

Best regards,

Jeff Johnson

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Membership process & email

[Vasile Craciunescu]

On 9/8/17 5:36 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote:


Anyway, I'm super happy to see such a big number of nominations, and I 
want to thank Vasile for the hard work and long hours he's dedicating to 
try to cup with such a demonstration of enthusiasm.


Thank you, Jorge! It's really great to see how are community is growing. 
Let's also no forget about the hard work done by the other CRO, Jeff 
McKenna. Even during his birthday, yesterday, Jeff put a lot of work 
into this. Great effort for the community!


Best,
Vasile
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Re: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination for Mohammed Zia

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Mohammed Zia nomination by Andy Anderson. 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: Re: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination for Ben Lewis
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 10:56:53 +
From: Andy Anderson 
To: c...@osgeo.org 
CC: Mohammed Zia 

[Still 11:56 PM, Thursday, September 7, 2017, Samoa Standard Time (SST) 
-1100 UTC  in American Samoa in the central Pacific! :-)]


I would like to nominate Mohammed Zia for charter membership.

Zia is a GeoSpatial Developer at the National Innovation & Research 
Center for Geographical Information Technologies in Turkey. As part of 
his PhD research in Geomatics Engineering, he is making extensive use of 
FOSS4G technologies in the study of vehicle routing, including the use 
of OpenStreetMap data and Mapbox for visualization, and published his 
algorithms as open-source [1]. He presented his results at the 
International FOSS4G 2017 conference this August. Zia also served as the 
co-chair of the FOSS4G Academic Program Subcommittee and co-editor of 
the Conference Proceedings, and was essential to organizing the review 
of and the selection of the submitted academic papers. He also 
participated in moderating the presentations there and was an important 
part of making the conference a success.


[1] https://github.com/Zia-

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination for Alessio Fabiani

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Alessio Fabiani nomination by Jody Garnett. The 2017 member 
nominations list was updated [1].


Best regards,
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2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Charter member nomination for Alessio Fabiani
Date:   Thu, 7 Sep 2017 22:18:54 -0700
From:   Jody Garnett 
To: Chief Returning Officer 



It is my honour to nominate Alessio Fabiani as a leader of the GeoServer 
community; indeed Alessio has served as a member of the project steering 
committee since its formation 
 in 2006. Alessio is 
a fixture at foss4g events with presentations and workshops. His reach 
extends beyond GeoServer, earning commit privilege on the GeoNode 
project in 2015.

--
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Santtu Pyykkönen

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Santtu Pyykkönen nomination by Pekka Sarkola. 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:Nomination for Santtu Pyykkönen
Date:   Wed, 6 Sep 2017 21:52:17 +0300
From:   Pekka Sarkola 
Reply-To:   pekka.sark...@gispo.fi
To: c...@osgeo.org



Name: Santtu Pyykkönen
Country: Finland

I would like to recommend Santtu Pyykkönen as a OSGeo Charter Member in 
Elections period 2017. Pyykkönen has been an active user and evangelist 
of free and open software for geospatial since 2013 and he has 
participated in the activities of the local OSGeo chapter in Finland 
since 2015.


Pekka Sarkola
Gispo Oy
pekka.sark...@gispo.fi    - GSM +358 
40 725 2042
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination: Ben Caradoc-Davies

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Ben Caradoc-Davies nomination by Jody Garnett. The 2017 
member nominations list was updated [1].


Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
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[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 
To: Chief Returning Officer 
CC: 	OSGeo Discussions , Ben Caradoc-Davies 





*name:* Ben Caradoc-Davies
*country:* New Zealand
*contact email:* b...@transient.nz 
*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.

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Nuno Oliveira

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Nuno Oliveira nomination by Andrea Aime. 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



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Subject:Nomination for Nuno Oliveira
Date:   Wed, 6 Sep 2017 15:18:50 +0200
From:   Andrea Aime 
To: OSGeo-CRO 



Name: Nuno Oliveira
Country: Portugal
Mail: nmco51...@gmail.com 

I would like to nominate Nuno Oliveira for OSGeo charter membership. 
Nuno is a relatively recent addition in the OSGeo Java tribe, and yet
in this time he managed to be active in the GeoTools, GeoServer and 
GeoWebCache projects,
showing at the same time good technical and communication abilities 
while also providing support on the user lists, along with GeoServer
related presentations and workshops in local FOSS4G/INSPIRE conferences. 
He's also a member of OSGeo Portugal and helps

organizing local events.

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nominate Antony Scott as a Charter Member

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Antony Scott nomination by Steven Feldman. The 2017 member 
nominations list was updated [1].


Best regards,
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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017



 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Nominate Antony Scott as a Charter Member
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 15:29:51 +0100
From: Steven Feldman 
To: Cro 
CC: Antony Scott 

I would like to nominate Antony Scott as a Charter Member of OSGeo

Antony has been active in the UK OSGeo chapter for a long time and is 
now the secretary of OSGeo:UK


He teaches QGIS both in the UK and overseas via MapAction where he he 
has been a volunteer for over 5 years.


Antony was a member of the FOSS4G 2013 LOC and also a member of the LOC 
for FOSS4G UK 2016.


Antony is a dedicated open source person who has travelled the world 
promoting OSGeo technologies in all sorts of environments, he is always 
willing to offer help to others. He would be an excellent Charter Member

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: New Member Nominations 2017 second

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding the list of seconded nominees by Luca Delucchi.

Best,
Vasile


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: New Member Nominations 2017 second
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 08:18:08 +0200
From: Luca Delucchi 
To: Jeff McKenna , Vasile Crăciunescu 



Hi guys,

I was think to second some of the nominations modifying the wiki page
but this is not possible.

I would second these nominations (if it is possible doing with this email)
- Arne Schubert
- Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus
- Veronica Andreo
- Eva Jelínková
- Paulo van Breugel
- Bart van den Eijnden
- Tõnis Kärdi
- Vinayaraj Poliyapram
- Nyall Dawson
- Markus Metz

Thanks

--
ciao
Luca

www.lucadelu.org

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member R.C.Prasad's Nomination

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear Ravi,

According with our membership process [1], we need Dr R.C.Parasad e-mail 
address to confirm the nomination. Also, the nominations should follow 
the membership process steps described in the wiki page.


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process

On 9/5/17 5:12 PM, Ravi Kumar wrote:

It is a pleasure to nominate Dr R.C.Parasad for OSGeo Charter.
R.C,Prasad conducted the FOSS4G Asia 2017 held at Hyderabad with aplomb.
He is one of the main resource persons of OSGeo India.
He is a keen researcher and trains students in Open Source GIS at IIIT 
Hyderabad.


V.Ravi Kumar
Charter Member OSGeo




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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination: Lyzi Diamond

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Lyzi Diamond nomination by Sara Safavi. The 2017 member 
nominations list was updated [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Charter member nomination: Lyzi Diamond
Date:   Fri, 1 Sep 2017 13:27:36 -0500
From:   Sara Safavi <s...@sarasafavi.com>
To: 	Vasile Craciunescu <vas...@geo-spatial.org>, OSGeo Chief Returning 
Officer <c...@osgeo.org>




Nominee: Lyzi Diamond, lyzidiam...@gmail.com 
<mailto:lyzidiam...@gmail.com> - USA


I would like to nominate Lyzi Diamond for OSGeo charter membership. Lyzi 
is an engineer and an educator, and a great contributor to the open 
source geo community on both fronts. With her work as co-founder of the 
international phenomenon, Maptime (maptime.io <http://maptime.io>), Lyzi 
gained recognition as a community leader dedicated to bringing 
cartography, geospatial technology, and mapping education to everyone. 
Since then she has continued to work towards making geo-related 
information more accessible to all. I often find myself referencing, and 
referring others, to Lyzi's blog posts, articles, tutorials, and talks 
as excellent resources.

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Yamakawa Junji (Japan)

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Yamakawa Junji nomination by Venkatesh Raghavan. The 2017 
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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Nomination for Yamakawa Junji (Japan)
Date:   Mon, 4 Sep 2017 13:29:49 +0900
From:   Venkatesh Raghavan 
To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 
CC: Yamakawa Junji 



Dear CRO,

It is my great pleasure to nominate Yamakawa Junji  [1]
as a Charter Member to OSGeo.

Yamakawa-san is very active in the OSGeo.JP community and
does great outreach by organizing workshops and lectures
at diverse academic and business forums. His main focus
in on geostatistics using various OSGeo tools in his teachings
and research.

His is committed to promoting OSGeo and will surely
be an asset as a Charter Member.

I have obtained consent form Yamakawa before filing his nomination.
This mail address ufeq0...@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp

Best

Venka

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Jyamrd
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nominate Matt Walker for Charter Membership

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Matt Walker nomination by Steven Feldman. The 2017 member 
nominations list was updated [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Nominate Matt Walker for Charter Membership
Date:   Mon, 4 Sep 2017 15:25:22 +0100
From:   Steven Feldman 
To: Cro 



I would like to nominate Matt Walker as a Charter Member of OSGeo

Matt has been active in the UK OSGeo chapter for many years now.

He is the lead developer of the Loader tool that is used by most UK 
organisations to load Ordnance Survey data into PostGIS and has also 
contributed to other projects.


Matt was a member of the FOSS4G 2013 LOC and coordinated the workshop 
programme for that event. He was also a member of the LOC for FOSS4G UK 
2016.


Matt is a committed open source person who is always willing to offer 
help to others. He would be an exemplary Charter Member


__
Steven Feldman


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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Khalifa Abacar Sarr

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Khalifa Abacar Sarr nomination by Gérald Fenoy. The 2017 
member nominations list was updated [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017

 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Khalifa
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 09:38:48 +0200
From: Fenoy Gerald 
To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 

Dear CRO, I would like you to forward this email to the discuss mailing 
list to officialise the following nomination.


—
Dear all,
I am glad to nominate Khalifa Abacar Sarr [1] for OSGeo Charter Member.
Khalifa is very passionate and an active promoter of OSGeo in Senegal 
where he is leading various GIS initiatives targeting West Africa. He 
contributes to GIS system by providing solutions for waste management 
system at country level using Open Source softwares. Khalifa is in 
between business and research, indeed, despite he is now involved in a 
company he is still getting a lot of activities on his own to give 
courses at the university of Dakar and others. He likes very much 
keeping good relation with student and have them involved in the 
development of new application. He likes to create relation between 
people that know and people that search to learn to make them sharing 
their knowledge.


I think that Khalifa can be areal asset for OSGeo.


[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Khasaar
—

Best regards,

side-note: thanks for the hard work CRO!

Gérald Fenoy
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Djay


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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Markus Metz for charter membership

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Markus Metz nomination by Moritz Lennert. The 2017 member 
nominations listwas updated [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Nomination of Markus Metz for charter membership
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 09:23:46 +0200
From: Moritz Lennert 
To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 

Dear CRO's,

I would like to nominate Markus Metz for charter membership. Markus is 
very deeply involved in the core development of GRASS GIS and has done 
invaluable work for our code base. Citing everything he's done would be 
too long, but besides introducing many new modules and also 
significantly improving the internal libraries, he has done wonders in 
allowing GRASS GIS to work with very, very large amounts of data.


Best wishes,
Moritz

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nominating Björn Harrtell as an OSGeo charter member

[Vasile Craciunescu]

We confirm that Björn Harrtell accepted the nomination by Sandro 
Santilli. The 2017 member nominations list was updated [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017

On 8/25/17 2:29 PM, Sandro Santilli wrote:

I would like to nominate Björn Harrtell for OSGeo charter membership.

Björn is a PostGIS committer, contributor of OpenLayers, GeoTools and
JTS, author of the JavaScript JTS port (http://bjornharrtell.github.io/jsts/)

He recently setup and still takes care of the experimental OSGeo/GitLab
server: http://bjornharrtell.github.io/jsts/; provides a Drone
agent for the experimental OSGeo/Gogs CI (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Drone)

You might know him as `bj0rn[m]` on IRC

Wiki page: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bjornharrtell

--strk;


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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination: Michael Terner

[Vasile Craciunescu]

We confirm that Michael Terner accepted the nomination by Sara Safavi 
and Regina Obe. The 2017 member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Charter member nomination: Michael Terner
Date:   Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:33:35 -0500
From:   Sara Safavi 
To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 



Nominee: Michael Terner, m...@appgeo.com 

I would like to nominate Michael Terner for OSGeo Charter Membership. I 
imagine I will not be the only person nominating Michael this year, but 
I would be remiss if I did not. Michael, of course, co-chaired FOSS4G 
2017, and his leadership was an integral part of the event's massive 
success. Having known Mike for many years, I can speak personally to his 
passion for and dedication to growing the open source geospatial community.




On 8/25/17 5:29 AM, Regina Obe wrote:
> Name: Michael Ternier
>
> I would like to nominate Michael Ternier for OSGeo Charter Membership.
> Michael has been a strong supporter of OSGeo projects for a number of 
years.
> The company, AppGeo, which he co-founded has been using FOSS4G tools 
for a
> number of years  and have been sponsors of several OSGeo events. 
He's given

> talks on building your product around FOSS4G software.
>
> Just recently he was the Co-Chair of FOSS4G 2017 where he did much of the
> legwork of putting out the proposal, doing the budget, garnering funding
> from many sponsors (I think FOSS4G2017 hit a record on sponsorship), and
> also making everything come together.
>
> He has something special that we are short on in OSGeo, and that is the
> ability to bring the conversation of FOSS4G to the business decision 
makers

> and how it can streamline their business processes.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Regina
>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Natraj Vaddadi

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Natraj Vaddadi nomination by Venkatesh Raghavan. The 2017 
member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Nomination for Natraj Vaddadi
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 14:46:33 +0900
From: Venkatesh Raghavan 
To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer , Natraj Vaddadi 



Dear CRO,

It is my great pleasure to nominate Natraj Vaddadi [1]
as a Charter Member to OSGeo.

Although he is a late entrant to the OSGeo world, Natraj
has been super active in promoting OSGeo technology and
tools at educational institutions and non-profit organizations
in India and Thailand. He has also participated in OSGeo events
in India and Thailand and is mainly focused on technologies
for field data collection. He is also working on preparing
training documentation for OSGeo community projects
(QGIS, ZOO-WPS etc). He also is doing indian language localization
for geospatial software.

 He conducts his training using FOSS4G tools. His keen interest in 
promoting

OSGeo software makes him a great candidate for nomination as Charter
Member for OSGeo.

I have obtained consent form Natraj before filing his nomination.

Best

Venka

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Vnatraj

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Niroshan Bandara

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Niroshan Bandara nomination by Venkatesh Raghavan. The 2017 
member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017




 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Nomination for Niroshan Bandara
Date:   Fri, 1 Sep 2017 14:27:33 +0900
From:   Venkatesh Raghavan 
To: 	OSGeo Chief Returning Officer , Niroshan Sanjaya 





Dear CRO,

It is my great pleasure to nominate Niroshan Bandara  [1]
as a new OSGeo Charter Member.

He is a young researcher who has shown dedication and commitment
to the OSGeo mission. He exclusively FOSS4G tools for his research and
has contributed to ZOO-WPS and MapMint projects. He is one of the founders
of the OSGeo-SL (SL-Sri Lanka) community. He actively participates
in FOSS4G-Events in Asia and Europe, not only as a presenter but also
conducts workshops on WPS, Mobile-GIS and Open Hardware

He is participating in GSoC projects since 2016 and contributing his time
and effort to improve FOSS4G tools.

His enthusiasm in spreading the use of OSGeo software
makes him an excellent choice for being an OSGeo  Charter Member.

I have obtained consent form Niroshan before filing his nomination.

Best

Venka

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Niroshan_Bandara

P.S. Am sending this nomination again as I messed up with the subject line
earlier.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] 2017 membership process update

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

Please let us give you some updates on the membership process (charter 
members nomination) [1]. Until now we got 50 nominations. 40 nominees 
already confirm the nomination and that was reflected on this mailing 
list and the New Member Nominations 2017 wiki page [2]. Please be aware 
that the table is not reflecting yet all the endorsements received by 
the nominees. It's quite challenging to keep up with that. This 
information will be updated during the weekend and one more time before 
the nomination period end. Also, the user profile link was not included 
for the nominees.  This will also be reviewed during the weekend. Some 
people raise concerns about the phrase "be aware of and protect against 
a hostile takeover of OSGeo". The reasons for this wording were 
explained by some of our colleagues here and the subject will be 
included in one of the next board meetings. That's all for the moment. 
Thank you for caring about our community!


Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

PS If you decide to nominate a person as charter member, please include 
the nominee *e-mail address and the country*. Thank you!


[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Charter Membership Nomination: Daniele Oxoli

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Daniele Oxoli nomination by Maria Brovelli. The 2017 member 
nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


 Forwarded Message 
Subject:OSGeo Charter Membership Nomination: Daniele Oxoli
Date:   Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:29:54 +
From:   Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brove...@polimi.it>
To: 	c...@osgeo.org <c...@osgeo.org>, Vasile Craciunescu 
<vas...@geo-spatial.org>, vasile.craciune...@gmail.com 
<vasile.craciune...@gmail.com>

CC: daniele oxoli <daniele.ox...@gmail.com>



Dear Vasile


I strongly support the nomination of Daniele Oxoli as a young enthusiast 
advocate of open source GIS software, promoting OSGeo and open source 
through his active participation as presenter (FOSS4G Como 2015, Paris 
2017) as well as assistant of the local organizing committee during 
OSGeo events (FOSS4G Eu in Como 2015 and also Bonn 2016).
I have known Daniele since years, starting from his master thesis, and 
he has always demonstrated tireless dedication to research and promotion 
of open source principles.
He is currently employed as researcher and PhD student at Politecnico di 
Milano where he is continuing providing excellent solutions with FOSS4G 
as well as introducing undergraduate students to the use and philosophy 
of open source and open data (he is the Vice President of the 
PoliMappers Association). Moreover, he is also contributing in software 
development through the implementation of a QGIS plugin dedicated to 
spatial statistics (Hotspot Analysis).

Please, welcome Daniele as an OSGeo Charter member.

Cheers
Maria

P.S. I already spoke with Daniele (in CC) and he is happy with the 
nomination.




Pay attention to this Special Issue and see if it is of interest by you:

http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studies



**
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Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing
Politecnico di Milano
**

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mapping (C3M)"http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html, Board of 
Directors of OSGeo; GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa 
Challenge; SIFET Advisory Board



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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination Mayte Toscano

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Mayte Toscano nomination by María Arias de Reyna. The 2017 
member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Nomination Mayte Toscano
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 09:22:02 +0200
From: María Arias de Reyna 
To: Mayte Toscano , CRO 

Mayte is a free and open source advocator. She runs a geo company
where she always tries to promote and extend free and open source
software. She is an advanced user and developer for postGIS and qGIS.
She is a very active leader in local and regional geo groups and also
very active promoting diversity in technology. Mayte is also highly
involved in new technologies like virtual reality and how to make geo
software more usable to newcomers.

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Hae-Kyong Kang for charter membership

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Hae-Kyong Kang nomination by Sanghee Shin. The 2017 member 
nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Nomination of Hae-Kyong Kang for charter membership
Date:   Wed, 30 Aug 2017 18:43:37 +0900
From:   신상희 
To: c...@osgeo.org 
CC: 강혜경 , 강혜경 



Dear CRO,

I’d like to nominate Dr. Hae-Kyong Kang for charter membership of OSGeo. 
As a researcher in KRIHS(Korea Research Institute of Human Settlements), 
she has carried out many open source GIS projects and produced multiple 
fruitful results including OpenGDS. She is a leader of OpenGDS projects, 
which is partly being adopted in UN Open GIS Initiative. Also she has 
played a key role in UN Open GIS Initiative as a chair of Spiral 3. And 
she has put many efforts to spread the open source GIS in Asia region. I 
believe she will be a great asset to OSGeo.


Kind regards,

신상희
---
Shin, Sanghee
Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company
http://www.gaia3d.com

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Rohit Reddy

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Rohit Reddy nomination by Venkatesh Raghavan. The 2017 member 
nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Nomination for Rohit Reddy
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 23:16:08 +0900
From: Venkatesh Raghavan 
To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 

Dear CRO,

It is my great pleasure to nominate Rohit Reddy [1]
as a Charter Member to OSGeo.

He is a young researcher who has shown dedication and commitment
to the OSGeo mission. He is an active member of the OSGeo India Local
Chapter.  He was has participated of GSoC projects and contributed
to pgRouting (OSGeo Community Project). He  is currently
servers as a mentor and will represent OSGeo at the GSoC Mentor
Summit 2017.

He conducts his R using FOSS4G tools. His keen interest in promoting
and developing OSGeo software will makes him a great choice for
nomination as Charter Member for OSGeo.

I have obtained consent form Rohit before filing his nomination.

Best

Venka

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Iamrohith94



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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Nyall Dawson

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Nyall Dawson nomination by Martin Dobias. The 2017 member 
nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017



 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Nomination of Nyall Dawson
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:45:55 +0200
From: Martin Dobias 
To: c...@osgeo.org

Hi there

I would like to nominate Nyall Dawson as a new Charter Member for OSGeo.

I have confirmed with him he is happy to be nominated.

Name: Nyall Dawson
Email: nyall.daw...@gmail.com
Country: Australia

Nyall is a great supporter of open source GIS and he is one of the
leading developers in QGIS project. Within several years of
involvement in QGIS community he has contributed an amazing range of
new features, bug fixes and he is constantly improving the project
with new ideas. Nyall runs a small consulting company called North
Road (https://north-road.com/). You can follow him on github/twitter
(@nyalldawson) and check out his mapping/QGIS blog at
http://nyalldawson.net/

Regards
Martin

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Vinayaraj Poliyapram

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Vinayaraj Poliyapram nomination by Venkatesh Raghavan. The 
2017 member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Nomination for https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Vinay
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 22:57:07 +0900
From: Venkatesh Raghavan 
To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 

Dear CRO,

It is my great pleasure to nominate Vinayaraj Poliyapram  (aka Vinay) [1]
as a Charter Member to OSGeo.

He is a young researcher who has shown dedication and commitment
to the OSGeo mission. He exclusively FOSS4G tools for his research and
has contributed to GRASS and ZOO-Project. He actively participates in
FOSS4G Events in Asia. He has conducted several workshops on GRASS,
QGIS, ZOO-Project, Python programming and OGC Web Services.

His enthusiasm in spreading the use of OSGeo software is second
to none and he will serve well as a Charter Member for OSGeo.

I have obtained consent form Vinay before filing his nomination.

Best

Venka

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Vinay


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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Bastian Drees from TIB as OSGeo charter member

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Bastian Drees nomination by Astrid Emde. The 2017 member 
nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Nomination of Bastian Drees from TIB as OSGeo charter member
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 22:47:52 +0200
From: Astrid Emde (OSGeo) 
To: c...@osgeo.org

Hello,

I would like to nominate Bastian Drees [1].

Bastian organizes the publishing of our conference recordings at TIB AV 
Portal [2]. These are recordings from FOSS4G [4], FOSSGIS [5], FROSCON 
[6] and other conferences and for example the GRASS video from 1987 
spoken by William Shatner [7].


Bastian cares for the long term availability of OSGeo material, 
especially videos such as conference recordings but also research data 
or proceedings:
- works on improving the discoverability and visibility of those 
materials and wants to make them citable and interlinkable
- helps developing necessary infrastructures for these purposes based on 
the needs of the OSGeo community [3]

- gives advice on publishing under open access licenses
- works together with the organizing committees of different FOSS4G and 
FOSSGIS conferences on publishing conference recordings in the AV-Portal 
of TIB

- helps us with our ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) [8].

Read the article "404: Video not found – The TIB AV-Portal stops 
scientific videos from disappearing" [9]
Read articles in Bastians blog about favorite highlights [10] & an 
interview with Till Adams after FOSS4G 2016 [10].


See a talk from Bastian about "OSGeo Konferenzaufzeichnungen im TIB 
AV-Portal" at FOSSGIS 2017 [12]. He finished his talk with the words 
based loosely on William Shatner[13]:


"So don’t keep your scientific videos, your simulations, your 
animations, your

video tutorials and conference recordings rolled up in your private homepage
or stuffed into commercial platforms. Keep it in the TIB AV-Portal!"

Would be great to have him in the team as OSGeo Charter Member.

Astrid

[1] Bastian Drees @ OSGeo https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bastian
[2] TIB AV Portal https://av.tib.eu/
[3] Information about TIB @ OSGeo https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/TIB
[4] Recordings from FOSS4G 
https://av.tib.eu/search?f=publisher%3Bhttp://av.tib.eu/resource/FOSS4G
[5] Recordings from FOSSGIS 
https://av.tib.eu/search?f=publisher%3Bhttp://av.tib.eu/resource/FOSSGIS_e.V. 
https://av.tib.eu/series/300/fossgis+konferenz+2017+passau+22+25+marz+2017
[6] Recordings from FROSCON 
https://av.tib.eu/search?q=FROSCON=publisher%3Bhttp://av.tib.eu/resource/Free_and_Open_Source_software_Conference_%2528FrOSCon%2529_e.V.=0

[7] GRASS Video from 1987 https://av.tib.eu/media/12963
[8] about ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) 
https.//orcid.org/-0003-3508-602X
[9] 
https://blogs.tib.eu/wp/tib/2016/11/16/404-video-not-found-the-tib-av-portal-stops-scientific-videos-from-disappearing/
[10] Blog 
https://blogs.tib.eu/wp/tib/2017/06/14/10-000-videos-im-av-portal-unsere-persoenlichen-highlights/
[11] “The AV-Portal enables us to preserve ‘for eternity’ conference 
videos for our community free of charge” – an interview with Till Adams 
https://blogs.tib.eu/wp/tib/2017/01/10/the-av-portal-enables-us-to-preserve-for-eternity-conference-videos-for-our-community-free-of-charge-an-interview-with-till-adams/
[12] Talk about TIB AV Portal at FOSSGIS 2017 "OSGeo 
Konferenzaufzeichnungen im TIB AV-Portal" (german) 
https://av.tib.eu/media/30541
[13] Quotation based loosely on William Shatner 
https://doi.org/10.5446/30541#t=13:56,14:12


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination: Sean Gillies

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

Please accept my apologies for this nomination. At this time, Sean is 
actually *not able* to accept the nominations. I will remove the wiki 
page entry and ask you to ignore this message.


Best,
Vasile

On 8/31/17 2:29 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
Forwarding Sean Gillies nomination by Sara Safavi. The 2017 member 
nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Charter member nomination: Sean Gillies
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:11:39 -0500
From: Sara Safavi <s...@sarasafavi.com>
To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer <c...@osgeo.org>


I would like to nominate Sean Gillies for OSGeo Charter Membership. I 
feel Sean's substantial contributions to our community speak for 
themselves, but a quick summary: Sean is the creator of the Fiona & 
Rasterio Python libraries, as well as one of the main authors of the 
GeoJSON spec. Without Sean's work many of us would be crying over our 
keyboards every day!

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination Cristina Domínguez

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Cristina Domínguez nomination by María Arias de Reyna. The 
2017 member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Nomination Cristina Domínguez
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:08:04 +0200
From: María Arias de Reyna 
To: CRO , Cristina Domínguez 

I want to nominate Cristina Domínguez, in cc.

Cristina is a Technical Engineer in Topography. She started using
gvSIG in 2010 and since then she has been a prominent user in many
OsGeo software: qGIS, OpenLayers, Leaflet, GeoNetwork, GeoServer,
postGIS,... She is an active OSM user since 2014.

Cristina is also part of the GeoInquietos group in Sevilla and has
participated and organizaed many local and regional geo events,
usually related to foss and open data like mapping parties.

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination: Sean Gillies

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Sean Gillies nomination by Sara Safavi. The 2017 member 
nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Charter member nomination: Sean Gillies
Date:   Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:11:39 -0500
From:   Sara Safavi 
To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 


I would like to nominate Sean Gillies for OSGeo Charter Membership. I 
feel Sean's substantial contributions to our community speak for 
themselves, but a quick summary: Sean is the creator of the Fiona & 
Rasterio Python libraries, as well as one of the main authors of the 
GeoJSON spec. Without Sean's work many of us would be crying over our 
keyboards every day!

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination: Gretchen Peterson

[Vasile Craciunescu]

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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Charter member nomination: Gretchen Peterson
Date:   Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:21:24 -0500
From:   Sara Safavi 
To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 



Nominee: Gretchen Peterson, gretc...@petersongis.com 



I would like to nominate Gretchen Peterson for OSGeo Charter Membership. 
Gretchen is a cartographer, author, and educator whose contributions to 
the community have impacted many of us - speaking personally, I can say 
that everything I know about designing good maps in QGIS, I learned from 
Gretchen. Most recently, Gretchen is co-author of the book "QGIS Map 
Design".

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Rajat Shinde

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Rajat Shinde nomination by Venkatesh Raghavan. The 2017 
member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Nomination for Rajat Shinde
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 00:03:55 +0900
From: Venkatesh Raghavan 
To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer , Rajat Shinde 



Dear CRO,

It is my great pleasure to nominate Rajat Shinde  [1]
as a new OSGeo Charter Member.

He is a young researcher who has shown dedication and commitment
to the OSGeo mission. He exclusively FOSS4G tools for his research and
has contributed to ZOO-WPS and MapMint projects. He actively participates in
FOSS4G events in Asia. He is currently participating in GSoC project and
contributing his time and effort to improve FOSS4G tools.

His enthusiasm in spreading the use of OSGeo software
makes him an excellent choice for being an OPSGeo  Charter Member.

I have obtained consent form Rajat before filing his nomination.

Best

Venka

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Rajatshinde

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: nomination of Anujit Vanasarochana from Thaialnd

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Anujit Vansarochana nomination by Sittichai Choosumrong. The 
2017 member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017




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Subject:nomination of Anjjit Vanasarochana from Thaialnd
Date:   Wed, 30 Aug 2017 10:41:41 +0700
From:   sittichai choosumrong 
To: c...@osgeo.org 



Dear CRO,

I would like to nominate Anujit Vansarochana as OSGeo chart member from 
Thailand.


Anujit  is very active on FOSS4G in Thailand.
I have known him more than 10 years ago when I was studies in Naresun 
University and now we work together in Naresuan University as a 
lecturer, researcher.We do  many project together using Open Source 
Software. I am sure he will continre to promote OSGeo.

He

His OSGeo member page is https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Anujitv 




Best regards
Sittichai

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Lecturer in Spatial DBMS, Internet and Mobile GIS Mapping,
Dept. of Natural Resources & Environment;
Faculty of Agriculture Natural Resources and Environment, Naresuan 
University, 65000

Office: +66 55 96 2753
Fax: +66 55 96 2750
Mobile: +66 91 767 2963

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Jack Reed

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Jack Reed nomination by Peter Löwe. The 2017 member 
nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Nomination of Jack Reed
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:00:33 +0200
From: "Peter Löwe" 
To: c...@osgeo.org
CC: pjr...@stanford.edu

Dear CROs,

I have the great pleasure to nominate Jack Reed (pjr...@stanford.edu):

Jack works as a geospatial web engineer on increasing access to 
geospatial data at the Stanford Libraries. A contributor to open-source 
software, Jack is active in the geospatial, library, and open data 
communities. He is co-founder of the GeoBlacklight and OpenGeoMetadata 
open source projects which aim to provide better geospatial data 
discovery tools and metadata sharing.


Jack frequently attends FOSS4G conferences and was part of this years 
spontaneous BoF for data librarians at FOSS4G Boston.


I believe Jack will be a very valuable charter member for OSGeo.



Best regards,
Peter




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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Rob Emanuele as OSGeo Charter Member

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Rob Emanuele nomination by Doug Newcomb. The 2017 member 
nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017



 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Nomination of Rob Emanuele as OSGeo Charter Member
Date:   Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:16:53 -0400
From:   Doug Newcomb 
To: c...@osgeo.org



Name: Rob Emanuele

Based on my positive experience working with Rob to organize the 2016 
FOSS4GNA Conference and for his continuing work in open source 
geospatial software I would like to nominate Rob Emanuele  to be an 
OSGeo Charter member.



Doug Newcomb
OSGeo Charter member

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Steven Ottens

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Steven Ottens nomination by Volker Mische. The 2017 member 
nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017



 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Nomination of Steven Ottens
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:50:42 +0200
From: Volker Mische 
To: c...@osgeo.org
CC: Steven Ottens 

I'd like to nominate Steven Ottens as OSGeo Charter Member. He is a long
time member of the community, founder and former board member of the
OSGeo Dutch language chapter. He gave talks and workshops at several
FOSS4Gs and also contributed to projects like OpenLayers, MapBuilder and
MapQuery.

Cheers,
  Volker

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member nomination for Daniele Strigaro

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Daniele Strigaro nomination by Massimiliano Cannata. The 2017 
member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Charter Member nomination for Daniele Strigaro
Date:   Mon, 28 Aug 2017 16:29:24 +0200
From:   Massimiliano Cannata 
To: c...@osgeo.org 

Dear CRO,
I'm pleased to nominate Daniele Strigaro [1] for Charter Membership. 
Daniele is a young enthusiastic developer devoted to open source 
Geospatial. He successfully contributed to the GRASS and istSOS 
community. He developed GIS tools for flood risk, landslide 
susceptibility and glacier retreat analysis and he has been working on 
the implementation of the istSOS software. In addition, he experienced 
the web platforms development using the well-known Javascript libraries 
(Leaflet, Openlayer) and different OGC compliant open source software 
for data and map sharing.


I have contacted Daniele and after checking the Responsabilities of a 
Charter member [2] he agreed to be nominated.


His contacts details are:

P.S.: sorry for my error in nomination procedure..

[1] https://github.com/danistrigaro 
[2] 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#Responsibilities_charter_membership_responsibilities





Max

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Professore SUPSI in ingegneria Geomatica

Responsabile settore Geomatica


Istituto scienze della Terra

Dipartimento ambiente costruzione e design

Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana

Campus Trevano, CH - 6952 Canobbio

Tel. +41 (0)58 666 62 14

Fax +41 (0)58 666 62 09

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Nikos Lambrinos as an OSGeo Charter Member

[Vasile Craciunescu]

We confirm that Nikos Lambrinos accepted the nomination by Suchith 
Anand. The 2017 member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017

On 8/23/17 6:40 PM, Suchith Anand wrote:
It is my pleasure to nominate Nikos Lambrinos (Greece) as  OSGeo Charter 
Member.  Nikos is a Professor of Geography Teaching and Director of 
Digital Analysis and Educational Design Laboratory at the Faculty of 
Education , School of Primary Education, Dept. of Science and New 
Technologies at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.


Nikos has made huge contributions to OSGeo's  Geo For All initiative and 
leads our Schools Thematic  and actively helping  educators and students 
worldwide in expanding geoeducation opportunities for all. Nikos 
initiated and is the Chief Editor of  the GeoForAll monthly newsletters 
[1] , which has now established as one of the most powerful outreach 
instruments that we have to spread OSGeo and Open  philosophy ideas in  
Geoeducation to new users every month. He also setup a amazing team of 
editors who are all contributing to make this possible by their tireless 
volunteer efforts.


Thank you Nikos for accepting my request for nomination and  for your 
contributions to our community.


Best wishes,

Suchith

[1] http://www.geoforall.org/newsletters/



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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination for Manuel Grizonet

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Manuel Grizonnet nomination by Gerald Fenoy. The 2017 member 
nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017



 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Charter Member Nomination for Manuel Grizonet
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 11:04:42 +0200
From: Fenoy Gerald 
To: OSGeo CRO 
CC: Manuel Grizonnet 


Dear all,
it is pleasure for me to nominate Manuel Grizonet [1] for OSGeo Charter 
Membership.


Many people know very well Manuel for the huge activities he is leading 
for years in OSGeo. Manuel is involved in the development team and is 
PSC member of the OrfeoToolbox that has been successfully incubated this 
year.


Manuel is also taking part in the organisation of the OTB HackFest each 
year where the OTB community can meet. Other communities can join too 
and are very welcome at this event, I got the luck to participate in 
such a kind of event and I have to say that I was amazed by the great 
work they do there. During the hack fest, users and developers meet to 
share their use cases of the software, discuss the next steps for the 
project, but also the issue they may face using this or that part of the 
project and so on. It is just a very nice and efficient way to have 
feedbacks from the community and to meet often.


Manuel is very open to discussion even when, like I do, you have only 
question to ask him and not much to offer.


I am confident that Manuel will be a great addition to the OSGeo Charter 
Members list.


All the best,
[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Grizonnetm
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Luca Congedo for OSGeo charter membership

[Vasile Craciunescu]

We confirm that Luca Congedo accepted the nomination by Angelos Tzotsos. 
The 2017 member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017

On 8/24/17 3:06 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:

Hi all,

I would like to propose Luca Congedo for OSGeo charter membership.
Luca is the author of one of the most popular QGIS plugins:
https://fromgistors.blogspot.com/p/semi-automatic-classification-plugin.html
with a great contribution to FOSS4G.

Best,
Angelos


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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Fwd: Nomination Joana Simões

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Joana Simões nomination by María Arias de Reyna. The 2017 
member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017




 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Fwd: Nomination Joana Simões
Date:   Mon, 28 Aug 2017 17:50:35 -0400
From:   Jorge Sanz 
To: CRO 




-- Forwarded message --
From: *María Arias de Reyna* >
Date: 24 August 2017 at 03:21
Subject: Nomination Joana Simões
To: CRO >, Joana Simoes 
>



I want to nominate Joana Simões (in cc)

Joana is already a member of the OsGeo Pt board. She is a free
software advocator and very active on all kind of activities around
OsGeo and FOSS4G. She is currently working both for qGIS and
GeoNetwork among many other OsGeo software.



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