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Fixing Angelos profile page link

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 | Gresa is an architect and urban planner from Pristina, deeply involved in the promotion and development of open-source geospatial technologies. As the co-chair of FOSS4G 2023, she has played a key role in fostering collaboration and innovation within the global geospatial community. Gresa also leads efforts to engage and empower the next generation of mappers in Kosovo, working closely with the local community of young mappers to develop their skills and contributions to OpenStreetMap and other open data initiatives. I believe Gresa would be a very good addition to our charter members list.
 * Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/neziri/ Gresa Neziri]
-| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos// Angelos Tzotsos]
+| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/ Angelos Tzotsos]
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 * Wiki:[https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Chaedri Caitlin Haedrich]
 * Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/haedrich Caitlin Haedrich]
-  | [https://www.osgeo.org/member/kudrnovsky/ Helmut Kudrnovsky ]
+  | [https://www.osgeo.org/member/kudrnovsky/ Helmut Kudrnovsky]
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   | Timor-Leste
   | "Ponsy" has been working hard to raise awareness and develop skills in the Timor-Leste community, through workshops in open mapping. He founded G-SIG, a Timorese not-for-profit organisation that frequently runs educational sessions for the community, and is a passionate advocate for OSGeo tools, methods, and principles. He's an energetic leader in his community and I think the OSGeo charter membership would be richer for his inclusion.
-* Wiki: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ponsy13 Ponciano da Costa de Jesus]
+* Wiki: [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ponsy13 Ponciano da Costa de Jesus]
 * Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/dacostadejesus/ Ponciano da Costa de Jesus]
   | [https://www.osgeo.org/member/bryant/ John Bryant]
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   | Canada
   | Edouard joined the GRASS GIS project recently and became an integral part regarding CI, unit tests, module and library improvements, bug fixing and much more here and there. :-) By joining GRASS GIS community sprints, he confirmed his spirit of open source (GIS) software development and community.
-* Wiki: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/choiniere/|Edouard Choinière]
+* Wiki: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/choiniere/ Edouard Choinière]
-* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Echoix Edouard Choinière]
+* Profile: [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Echoix Edouard Choinière]
   | [https://www.osgeo.org/member/kudrnovsky/ Helmut Kudrnovsky ]
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   | Germany
   | Tobias has extensive experience in the field of GIS, a knack for finding issues in the weirdest of places and is willing to follow them through. I'd like to nominate him as a charter member.
-* Profile:[https://www.osgeo.org/member/wendorff/|Tobias Wendorff]
+* Profile:[https://www.osgeo.org/member/wendorff/ Tobias Wendorff]
   | [https://www.osgeo.org/member/nicola/ Laurențiu Nicola]
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   | UK
   | It gives me great pleasure to nominate Dave as an OSGeo Charter Member. Dave has been an active Open Source supporter in the UK for a number of years, including being an OSGeo:UK committee member, helping to organize recent QGIS User Groups in the UK and our Bovey Tracy site for FOSS4G:UK Local 2022. He has 27 years experience in developing technology focused products across many sectors including finance, leisure and government. Dave’s key skills lie in driving small teams to deliver complex solutions in compressed timescales, he is a recognized expert in geospatial technologies and UK open data.
-* Wiki: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Davebarter Dave Barter]
+* Wiki: [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Davebarter Dave Barter]
-* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/dave/|Dave Barter]
+* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/dave/ Dave Barter]
   | [https://www.osgeo.org/member/bearman/ Nick Bearman]
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   | Finland
   | One of the main contributors to open source project Oskari (https://oskari.org) since 2011 and helping National Land Survey of Finland on it's Open Source path. Sami has been an active person in our local society. He has been already years in the board of OSGeo Finland.
-* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/makinen/|Sami Mäkinen]
+* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/makinen/ Sami Mäkinen]
   | [https://www.osgeo.org/member/salovaara/ Kari Salovaara]
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   | Bulgaria
   | Vasil has a solid background in GIS and open-source tools for spatial analysis and outstanding publication records in these fields. Vasil also took part in different FOSS4G events in the past. I would like to nominate him as a Charter Member because I believe his skills and passion for promoting FOSS GIS in teaching and research will be a great asset to the OSGeo community.
-* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/yordanov|Vasil Yordanov]
+* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/yordanov Vasil Yordanov]
-  | [https://www.osgeo.org/member/oxoli-daniele   Daniele Oxoli]
+  | [https://www.osgeo.org/member/oxoli-daniele Daniele Oxoli]
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   | Italy
   | Claudio is currently working at the European Space Agency site ESRIN since 2022 in the Digital Platform Section, focusing on interoperability between Earth Observation cloud platforms, including geospatial data cubes and reproducibility of Earth Observation workflows and applications. He is actively involved in the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), managing ESA’s contribution to open standards development and promotion. He is a strong advocate for digital innovation, open science and open innovation and as part of this endeavour, he leads the Earth Observation Exploitation Platform Common Architecture (EOEPCA) project, promoting open governance and community based open source development. I believe Claudio would be an great addition to our charter members list.
-* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/iacopino/|Claudio Iacopino]
+* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/iacopino/ Claudio Iacopino]
   | [https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/ Angelos Tzotsos]
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   | I am pleased to nominate Alberto Vavassori, a young researcher and PhD candidate in Geomatics Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Alberto is actively committed to promoting open-source geospatial technologies, with contributions both in scientific code development for urban climatology and Earth Observation and in educational initiatives (see e.g., GIS4Schools - https://gis4schools.readthedocs.io and Copernicus4Schools - https://copernicus4schools.readthedocs.io). He is a promising new member of the OSGeo community to further geospatial literacy and open-source geospatial tools within the academic context and beyond.
 * Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/vavassori Alberto Vavassori]
   | [https://www.osgeo.org/member/oxoli-daniele   Daniele Oxoli]
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   | Switzerland
   | Maxime has been an advocate of open-source geospatial software and standards for several years, and a user of multiple OSGeo tools such as pygeoapi, ldproxy, GeoServer, QGIS and QGIS Server, contributing to the community through reporting issues and advocating use of these tools in Switzerland through his previous work at the Media Engineering Institute of HEIG-VD, and will continue to do so in his new position with the Swiss government. Maxime has also been heavily involved with the Styles & Symbology Standard Working Group within the OGC, as a co-editor for CartoSym 2.0, for which he has been a great team member. Maxime participated in several joint OGC / OSGeo code sprints, including in person in Bussigny in 2023, and online for the 2024 edition in Evora, as well as additional OGC code sprints involving the OSGeo community such as the July 2024 sprint in London. Through these code sprints, Maxime engaged with OSGeo projects such as GeoStyler and pygeoapi about the potential implementation of new OGC standards. Maxime also attended the Firenze FOSS4G Community Sprint in 2022 where we worked together towards CartoSym 2.0. Maxime has recently launched the CartoSymTranscoder open-source project which aims to provide transcoding capability between CartoSym-CSS, CartoSym-JSON as well as SLD/SE. This capability should provide an easy transition to implement support for the next generation of OGC Cartographic Portrayal standards in tools such as Map Server, GeoServer and pygeoapi, supporting the new conceptual model and encodings in the next generation of Web mapping APIs such as OGC API - Maps, OGC API - Tiles and OGC API - Styles. Maxime is interested in joining the OSGeo Standards Committee, to continue close collaboration between OSGeo and OGC on cartographic portrayal in particular, continue in his role as co-editor for CartoSym 2.0, as well as developing open-source implementations of the Standard.
-* Wiki: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mcollombin Maxime Collombin]
+* Wiki: [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mcollombin Maxime Collombin]
 * Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/Collombin/ Maxime Collombin]
   | [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jerome_Jacovella-St-Louis Jérôme Jacovella-St-Louis]
 | ''''

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   | Claudio is currently working at the European Space Agency site ESRIN since 2022 in the Digital Platform Section, focusing on interoperability between Earth Observation cloud platforms, including geospatial data cubes and reproducibility of Earth Observation workflows and applications. He is actively involved in the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), managing ESA’s contribution to open standards development and promotion. He is a strong advocate for digital innovation, open science and open innovation and as part of this endeavour, he leads the Earth Observation Exploitation Platform Common Architecture (EOEPCA) project, promoting open governance and community based open source development. I believe Claudio would be an great addition to our charter members list.
 * Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/iacopino/|Claudio Iacopino]
-  | [https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tsoztos/ Angelos Tzotsos]
+  | [https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/ Angelos Tzotsos]
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 | Youssef Harby
 | Egypt
-|  I would like to nominate Youssef Harby for OSGeo Charter member. Youssef has been contributing to several FOSS/OSgeo projects and he is a great advocate for the use of FOSS4G technologies in Egypt. Youssef has participated in community events such as the OSGeo/OGC/ASF Joint Code Sprint and the FOSS4G Europe conference, and he has the intention and the energy to organise something in his region.
+|  Joana: I would like to nominate Youssef Harby for OSGeo Charter member. Youssef has been contributing to several FOSS/OSgeo projects and he is a great advocate for the use of FOSS4G technologies in Egypt. Youssef has participated in community events such as the OSGeo/OGC/ASF Joint Code Sprint and the FOSS4G Europe conference, and he has the intention and the energy to organise something in his region.
 * Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/zakhary/ Youssef Harby]
 * Wiki: [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Yharby Youssef Harby]
-| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/simoes/ Joana  Simoes]
+| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/simoes/ Joana  Simoes] & [https://www.osgeo.org/member/tom-kralidis/ Tom Kralidis]

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	\| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/oxoli-daniele Daniele Oxoli]		\| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/oxoli-daniele Daniele Oxoli]
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		+	\| <span id="21">21</span>
		+	\| Maxime Collombin
		+	\| Switzerland
		+	\| Maxime has been an advocate of open-source geospatial software and standards for several years, and a user of multiple OSGeo tools such as pygeoapi, ldproxy, GeoServer, QGIS and QGIS Server, contributing to the community through reporting issues and advocating use of these tools in Switzerland through his previous work at the Media Engineering Institute of HEIG-VD, and will continue to do so in his new position with the Swiss government. Maxime has also been heavily involved with the Styles & Symbology Standard Working Group within the OGC, as a co-editor for CartoSym 2.0, for which he has been a great team member. Maxime participated in several joint OGC / OSGeo code sprints, including in person in Bussigny in 2023, and online for the 2024 edition in Evora, as well as additional OGC code sprints involving the OSGeo community such as the July 2024 sprint in London. Through these code sprints, Maxime engaged with OSGeo projects such as GeoStyler and pygeoapi about the potential implementation of new OGC standards. Maxime also attended the Firenze FOSS4G Community Sprint in 2022 where we worked together towards CartoSym 2.0. Maxime has recently launched the CartoSymTranscoder open-source project which aims to provide transcoding capability between CartoSym-CSS, CartoSym-JSON as well as SLD/SE. This capability should provide an easy transition to implement support for the next generation of OGC Cartographic Portrayal standards in tools such as Map Server, GeoServer and pygeoapi, supporting the new conceptual model and encodings in the next generation of Web mapping APIs such as OGC API - Maps, OGC API - Tiles and OGC API - Styles. Maxime is interested in joining the OSGeo Standards Committee, to continue close collaboration between OSGeo and OGC on cartographic portrayal in particular, continue in his role as co-editor for CartoSym 2.0, as well as developing open-source implementations of the Standard.
		+	* Wiki: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mcollombin Maxime Collombin]
		+	* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/Collombin/ Maxime Collombin]
		+	\| [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jerome_Jacovella-St-Louis Jérôme Jacovella-St-Louis]

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 * Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/mchale/ Scott McHale]
   | [https://www.osgeo.org/member/jody-garnett/ Jody Garnett]
 | ''''

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 | <span id="17">17</span>
-  | Hamidreza Ostadabbs
+  | Bill Dollins
-  | Germany, Iran
+  | United States of America
-  | Hamidreza Ostadabbs is the Head of the Geoinformatics Department at Die STEG, based in Stuttgart since 2018. He also serves as a lecturer at the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, specializing in GIS Studio, smart data components, and AI modeling. Highly engaged in organizing and supporting FOSS4G( https://2024.europe.foss4g.org/team/) events across different continents, Hamidreza graduated in Surveying Engineering from Tehran and obtained his master's degree in Geoinformatics and Photogrammetry from the University of Stuttgart. Hamidreza is passionate about open-source tools like QGIS and PostgreSQL, he is also a Python Plugin developer. Hamidreza is actively involved in education through various platforms, including university lectures and private institutions, along with contributing educational content on social media platforms like YouTube. I believe Hamidreza would be a very good addition to our charter members list.
+  | Bill Dollins, has been a member of OSGEO US since 2014. As a consultant, he has delivered solutions based on open-source geospatial software since 2006 - mostly PostGIS, GDAL, GeoServer, and QGIS, but not limited to those. Bill has been very involved in helping to find financial support for OSGeo projects he works with and for the OSGeo US chapter's activities. During his time at a commercial SaaS company, he convinced his company to sponsor QGIS due to its heavy usage. In 2023, he was on the organizing committee for FOSS4G North America (Baltimore). In 2024, he was a co-chair and sponsor for FedGeoDay in Washington, DC - focused on government use cases for open-source geospatial. He was also on the steering and sponsorship committees for the 2024 FOSS4G North America (St. Louis). Bill is a valuable team member for the OSGeo community because of his advocacy for using open source geospatial tools in US government agencies as well as the commercial sector.
-* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/ostadabbas/|Hamidreza Ostadabbs]
+* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/dollins Bill Dollins]
-  | [https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tsoztos/ Angelos Tzotsos]
+  | [https://www.osgeo.org/member/tobias/ Michele Tobias]
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	\| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/kuhn/ Matthias Kuhn]		\| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/kuhn/ Matthias Kuhn]

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		+	\| <span id="19">19</span>
		+	\| Scott McHale
		+	\| Canada
		+	\| It is my privilege to nominate Scott McHale as a wonderful positive influence on the OSGeo Community. I expect many have already encountered Scott has been conducting a survey, and putting together recommendations on how to make joining OSGeo less awkward for all involved. Scott founded the OSGeo Alberta Chapter in 2019, and has been inspired to make our community better ever since. A recent addition to the marketing committee he has managed to charm everyone with kindness, patiently reaching out to our committees and projects that make up our foundation. Please join me in recommending Scott McHale and wishing him every success.
		+	* Wiki: [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:ScottMcHale Scott McHale]
		+	* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/mchale/ Scott McHale]
		+	\| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/jody-garnett/ Jody Garnett]

	\| ''''		\| ''''

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	\| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tsoztos/ Angelos Tzotsos]		\| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tsoztos/ Angelos Tzotsos]

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		+	\| <span id="18">18</span>
		+	\| Mathieu Pellerin
		+	\| Cambodia
		+	\| Mathieu is a very active open source user, advocate and developer. His open mindset and passion for sharing high quality maps and code with the world and connecting to communities makes him a very good candidate for an osgeo charter member.
		+	* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/mathieu-2/ Mathieu Pellerin]
		+	* Wiki: [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Nirvn Mathieu Pellerin]
		+	\| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/kuhn/ Matthias Kuhn]

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	* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/iacopino/\|Claudio Iacopino]		* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/iacopino/\|Claudio Iacopino]
	\| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tsoztos/ Angelos Tzotsos]		\| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tsoztos/ Angelos Tzotsos]
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		+	\| <span id="17">17</span>
		+	\| Hamidreza Ostadabbs
		+	\| Germany, Iran
		+	\| Hamidreza Ostadabbs is the Head of the Geoinformatics Department at Die STEG, based in Stuttgart since 2018. He also serves as a lecturer at the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, specializing in GIS Studio, smart data components, and AI modeling. Highly engaged in organizing and supporting FOSS4G( https://2024.europe.foss4g.org/team/) events across different continents, Hamidreza graduated in Surveying Engineering from Tehran and obtained his master's degree in Geoinformatics and Photogrammetry from the University of Stuttgart. Hamidreza is passionate about open-source tools like QGIS and PostgreSQL, he is also a Python Plugin developer. Hamidreza is actively involved in education through various platforms, including university lectures and private institutions, along with contributing educational content on social media platforms like YouTube. I believe Hamidreza would be a very good addition to our charter members list.
		+	* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/ostadabbas/\|Hamidreza Ostadabbs]
		+	\| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tsoztos/ Angelos Tzotsos]
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	* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/yordanov\|Vasil Yordanov]		* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/yordanov\|Vasil Yordanov]
	\| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/oxoli-daniele Daniele Oxoli]		\| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/oxoli-daniele Daniele Oxoli]
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		+	\| <span id="16">16</span>
		+	\| Claudio Iacopino
		+	\| Italy
		+	\| Claudio is currently working at the European Space Agency site ESRIN since 2022 in the Digital Platform Section, focusing on interoperability between Earth Observation cloud platforms, including geospatial data cubes and reproducibility of Earth Observation workflows and applications. He is actively involved in the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), managing ESA’s contribution to open standards development and promotion. He is a strong advocate for digital innovation, open science and open innovation and as part of this endeavour, he leads the Earth Observation Exploitation Platform Common Architecture (EOEPCA) project, promoting open governance and community based open source development. I believe Claudio would be an great addition to our charter members list.
		+	* Profile: [https://www.osgeo.org/member/iacopino/\|Claudio Iacopino]
		+	\| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tsoztos/ Angelos Tzotsos]