Election 2016 Candidate Manifestos - Revision history

Vasile at 04:54, 28 September 2016

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Jsanz: Maxi

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Maxi

Kalxas at 20:32, 26 September 2016

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Jsanz: Marc Vloemans

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Marc Vloemans

Wiki-Nbozon: /* Nicolas Bozon */

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Nicolas Bozon

Wiki-Nbozon at 06:09, 26 September 2016

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Wiki-Dirkf: /* Dirk Frigne */

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Dirk Frigne

Wiki-Ortelius: Added Candidate Manifesto for Jeffrey Johnson

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Added Candidate Manifesto for Jeffrey Johnson

Delawen at 18:27, 24 September 2016

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Wiki-Maria: /* Maria Antonia Brovelli */

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Maria Antonia Brovelli

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 I would be happy to serve the OSGeo Board in any role I am assigned.
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		+	== Angelos Tzotsos ==
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		+	=== About me ===

		+	My name is Angelos Tzotsos. I am a remote sensing scientist/researcher and have been a FOSS developer for more than half of my life. I wrote my first program at the age of 11 and installed my first GNU/Linux distribution in 1997. During my first year as an undergraduate student, I started looking for Free and Open Source Software to use in my surveying engineer studies, and I was excited to find out that people were already working on it, long before OSGeo was officially formed. I promised myself to promote their work and contribute back as much as I could; and here we are today. I am proud to be a member of the OSGeo community and honored to be nominated for a position at the Board of Directors.
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		+	=== My vision ===
		+
		+	In my early days as an educator, my vision was clear: inspire young people to join our community (or any other FOSS community) and discover the technical and ethical revolution of Free and Open Source Software, the way I did. As I grow older, I become “greedier” and wish that governments, organizations, universities, private companies and users could join us in more active ways. In this direction, I feel we need to make greater efforts in marketing our work and promoting our success stories, especially now that open source is becoming mainstream in technology. We also need to continue reaching out to other communities and organizations, and also help the business part of our ecosystem grow.
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		+	=== What you have done within the community in the past ===
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		+	I have been a charter member since 2011. So far, I have mostly been involved in the technical part of our community: I am the chair of the OSGeo-Live PSC, the OSGeo project officer for pycsw, core developer and contributor of many projects like GeoNode, ZOO-Project, OTB (more contribution details can be found on my wiki page https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Angelos_Tzotsos). I am also heavily involved in packaging efforts for GNU/Linux distributions.
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		+	=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===
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		+	I want to help keep a strong connection between OSGeo and OGC, since I feel this cooperation benefits both organizations. I also want to help strengthen our connections with large communities like OSM and Open Data.
		+	Another goal is to increase support for SAC and marketing committees (in terms of funding) so that OSGeo is more attractive for new projects to join. This can happen if we make our infrastructure stronger and if we deploy a more professional marketing plan.
		+	I also wish to be one of the voices in the board that remind all of us of our Free Software roots (Free is part of FOSS4G, even if not reflected in the OSGeo name), avoiding proprietary systems as much as possible.
		+
		+	=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===
		+
		+	I would like to work towards making our main event (FOSS4G) more accessible to people who cannot afford it today. For students from low income countries it is nearly impossible to attend, the entry point being too high. Perhaps we should re-think whether our main income should be FOSS4G or how to reach out to more funding (e.g. more sponsors, crowdfunding campaigns, participation as a partner organization in project opportunities)
		+
		+	=== What role you would wish to fulfil on the board (if any) ===
		+
		+	I would be happy to serve the OSGeo Board in any role I am assigned.

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 * Spearhead GISP Certification Program efforts & liaise with organizations like URISA
 * Whatever else I am asked to do :)
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 First of all, thank you for nominating and considering me as a potential OSGeo director.
-This is a great honor to take part to this election and to run along with good and numerous candidates. Only 25% of us will get a sit this year, exciting !
+This is a great honor to take part to this election and to run along with good and numerous candidates. Only 40% of us will get a sit this year, exciting !
 Charter members, a real choice is given to you this time so please make use of your votes ! I a writing this statement to tell you why you should consider giving me one.
 It is also available on the wiki [1], if you are more confortable with reading long text in a web page rather than inside your email client.

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+== Jeffrey Johnson ==
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 === What role you would wish to fulfil on the board (if any) ===
 Considering what I said above, I want to be involved as one of the G4A point of contact and as one of the UN Committee point of Contact. Moreover I will be actively support discussion and actions for improving diversity in the OSGeo leadership.
 == Candidate ==

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 === About me ===
 You can find information about me:
 https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maria (the nickname “Queen of FOSS4G” was added by lovely fans ;-) )
 https://www4.ceda.polimi.it/manifesti/manifesti/controller/ricerche/RicercaPerDocentiPublic.do?EVN_ELENCO_DIDATTICA=evento&k_doc=1262&lang=EN&aa=2016&tab_ricerca=1&jaf_currentWFID=main
 Click on download CV
 Then you can find me on Linkedin, twitter, facebook. Unfortunately I’m not able to keep everything updated and therefore you find here and there pieces of my life.
 === My vision ===
 I have been all my life a strong supporter of open source GIS because I believe that knowledge as well as data are commons (Common good) of humanity. Geography, together with history (space and time) is one of the keys for analyzing the world around us and GIS in a broad sense (i.e., the geospatial web) are the tools allowing these analyses.
 Geospatial tools, data and information have to be accessible by everyone in the world and here education plays a fundamental role. We will bring our free geospatial tools to every child in every part of the world, hoping to give him the possibility of becoming a better human being. And we will spread our free geospatial tools everywhere.
 === What you have done within the community in the past ===
 Mainly I have been educating people who become then part of the community. I helped in the Education and Curriculum Committee and in the organization of many Academic Tracks.
 I organized the first national conference about FOSS4G in 2000 (http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/grass_2000/  only in Italian) and I was involved in the organization of the International Open Source Free Software GIS - GRASS users conference 2002 in Trento (Italy) (http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/conferences/GRASS2002/home.html)
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 I was the chair of FOSS4G Europe 2016.
 I am currently part of G4A (chair of two networks: the European and the Geocrowdsourcing CitizenScience and member of the Board) and one of the two chairs of the United Nation Committee (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UnitedNations_Committee).
 As a researcher, I contributed to development of FOSS4G methods and tools.
 === What your interests are in terms of the board ===
 I want to help as a connection between the Board and G4A (I’m mainly a researcher and an educator). Secondly I want to make stronger the connections we have with many sister associations (the ones we already have MoUs and those we want to create them) especially humanitarian associations like HOT, Missing Maps and so on.
 I will go ahead in working for the UN OSGeo initiative and I will act as contact between the Committees supporting this initiative and the Board.
 But above all, I will try to make us keener not only to accepting diversity but to paying more attention and value on it.
 OSGeo is a great community also because of its diversity. This is a richness we have to cultivate. I want to see more ladies and in general people of the Rest of the World (not only North America and Eu) in the boards of the different committees.
 === Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===
 I want to work in such a way to give the possibility to everybody in actively participating to OSGeo and to our meetings (e.g. FOSS4G conferences).
 Part of this will be giving more possibility to women to show up. We need more female leadership in general and in OSGeo also.
 Women are more or less the half of the population, but we have only 12 % of ladies as charter members. Can we start from this point and try to improve the situation?
 === What role you would wish to fulfil on the board (if any) ===
+Considering what I said above, I want to be involved as one of the G4A point of contact and as one of the UN Committee point of Contact. Moreover I will be actively support discussion and actions for improving diversity in the OSGeo leadership.
 == Candidate ==