On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Richard Welty <[email protected]> wrote:
> Candidates might consider posting statements on talk-us. Providing > an opportunity for candidates to say something might have been > done at SOTM US but wasn't, maybe we should have (at least 9 > if not all 10 of the board candidates were in attendance.) That's a good idea. My name is Serge Wroclawski. I'm a candidate running for the board of OSM US. My involvement in OpenStreetMap started about two years ago with a talk by Richard Weait. I don't have a formal background in GIS but I immediately saw the benefits to having geographic information that was free in the same way we have Free/Open Source software, a free encyclopedia, and free textbooks. In my time with OpenStreetMap, I've been fairly active. Most recently, I currently serve on the temporary board of OpenStreetMap United States. I also served on the conference planning committee for SOTM US. I'm also one of the founders of MappingDC, a local mapping group that meets in the Washington, DC region. I've been involved in the Free Software/Open Source movement since 1997, when I installed Linux on my PC in my dorm room. At that time I had no formal CS training either, so there are a lot of parallels. With OpenStreetMap, I've learned a lot in the short time I've been with OSM, I've been developing software, and also writing guides to help people use OSM more effectively, including an alternative database/XAPI server, and my current project, to help make imports and bots a little more manageable. I have great aspirations for OSM US and I hope that I'm given the privilege of being able to take part in a leadership position. - Serge _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
