Hello everybody, my name is Pedro-Juan Ferrer and I have the honor of being an OSGeo Charter Member nominee for this year election (second year in a row), I'd like to thank to Jorge Sanz for the nomination and to the Spanish Language Local Chapter for being supportive (in the LC list).
Computer has been one of my hobbies since I was 7, so when I grow up (34 right now) and I become a cartographer, obviously I also become a GIS specialist... well, it is said that specialization is for insects, and I'm more the "Jack of all trades" kind of person, but I hope you get the idea. I began using some GDAL/OGR tricks, some Python (Shapely), PostGIS an Mapserver, through the years I've become involved with the gvSIG and OSM communities. I'm not a developer, but a user (and some times a PITA with some bugs and bugtracking services) and a evangelist which is more the role that I develop for the OSGeo Foundation. I've been in the Spanish Local Chapter almost since it was founded, I was elected as it's Liaison Officer and submitted the LC Request of Approval to the Board and the community. I always defended that this Local Chapter should be Language based and tried to encourage people from both sides of the Atlantic to collaborate and get responsibilities, and I'm still trying because it is one of my biggest Failures cause we still aren't able to mobilize enough people, but we keep trying. I've been representing the Foundation in lots of Events here in Spain and (once) in LATAM, and not only in "Geo-Events" but also in other Software/Technology/Social events. I think that the Foundation needs to develop stronger links with the Spanish speaking communities, so if you disregard my nomination (but have reached this point) please take into consideration the candidatures of Gabriel Roldán (developer strongly involved in OpenGeo) and Lluís Vicens (University teacher (SIGTE departament in Girona) and one of the Almae Maters of the biggest FOSS4G event in Spain). Thank you very much for this opportunity! Best, -- Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses Valencia (España) _______________________________________________ Spanish mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/spanish http://es.osgeo.org http://twitter.com/osgeoes
