New Member Nominations 2022

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# 	Nominee Name 	Country 	Positive attributes	Nominated by
1 	Bianca Federici 	Italy 	
"Bianca is an active member of the Italian community. She is a professor at the University of Genoa software teaching and researching using free GIS for a long time. She has been part of the organisation of several national organisations since 2007 and was co-chair of the FOSS4G 2022"
* Profile: Bianca Federici	Luca Delucchi
2 	Seabilwe Tilodi 	South Africa 	"Seabilwe is a GIS specialist with a background in geology and agroclimatology working at Kartoza. She is passionate about the application of open-source software and open data to solve complex problems. She does awesome work training on open-source software such as QGIS, in particular for high school students and teachers. She is one of the organizers of the QGIS Open Day virtual event series where she takes care of the social media outreach. Many of you will remember her from FOSS4G 2022 where she presented a lightning talk on ""Classroom GIS in South Africa"". Her numerous contributions to the QGIS contributor meeting in the lead up to FOSS4G were extremely valuable."
* Profile: Seabilwe Tilodi	Anita Graser
3 	Tomas Holderness 	United Kingdom 	"Tomas is an active member of the open geospatial community and has spoken at every FOSS4G global event since 2016 and FOSS4G UK in 2019.  Tomas 
is a recognised leader in serverless computing for geospatial and has 
spoken and blogged extensively on the subject at FOSS4G and Geomob 
events as well as on podcasts.  Tomas is the CTO of Addresscloud a 
business providing services to the insurance industry based on open 
source geospatial technology, sponsors of FOSS4G UK 2019, OSGeo in 2021 
and FOSS4G Firenze in 2022."
* Profile: Tomas Holderness	Mark Varley
4 	Besfort Guri 	Kosovo 	
"It is my pleasur to nominate Besfort Guri as OSGeo Charter Member. 
Besfort is active in OSGeo since some years now. Besfort Guri is heavily 
involved in FLOSSK which is the local OSGeo Chapter for Kosovo since 
2020 (https://www.osgeo.org/local-chapters/osgeo-kosovo/) Besfort is a 
member of FLOSSK since 2009 as well as the President of the Executive 
Board at FLOSSK. Besfort leads OSGeo and OSM local chapters in Kosovo. 
Besfort was part of the organizing team of different conferences. He is 
in the FOSS4G 2022 organizing committee that will invite the community 
to Prizren, Kosovo. He runs a small company focused on Geographical 
Information System and Web Development.
"
* Profile: Besfort Guri	Astrid Emde
5 	Markus Mayr 	Austria 	
"Markus is a long time and very active member of the OpenStreetMap community organizing the OSM meetup (Stammtisch) in Vienna as chair of the OSM Austria LocalChapter. The OSM meetup is also the place for the Viennese FOSSGIS members, the German local chapter of OSGeo, to meet. Markus is organizing the presentation of OSGeo related projects at mainly Austrian GIS-specific events like the GI_Salzburg (formerly AGIT)."
* Profile: Markus Mayr
* Wiki: Markus Mayr	Stephan Meißl
6 	Darafei Praliaskouski 	Belarus 	
"Darafei is a long time PostGIS and OpenStreetMap contributor.  He is also a member of the PostGIS project steering committee.  
He is an active speaker in FOSS4G conferences and code sprints, OSM conferences, and PostgreSQL conferences.
In addition to being an invaluable member of the PostGIS development 
team, he also reports bugs and tries to help out with pgRouting, GEOS, 
and GDAL projects.
He has encouraged several of his staff to get involved in open source, in particular with PostGIS, PostgreSQL, and GEOS."
* Profile: Darafei Praliaskouski	Regina Obe
7 	Daniel Baston 	United States 	
From Brian M Hamlin
"Dan Baston has been porting Java Topology Suite functionality to libGEOS (C++) since 2016, and was promoted to libGEOS PSC in October 2019. Dan is a PostGIS committer since 2015. In data science, the R language is as active today as it has ever been. In addition to rigorous spatial mathematics engineering with libGEOS and PostGIS, Dan bridges the OSGeo world to R as a substantial committer to GEOS client-library R-sf. It is notable that r-spatial is joining forces with OSGeo at this time, and Dan's contributions directly bring these technical communities together. It is my honor to nominate Daniel Baston as OSGeo Charter Member in 2022."
From Regina Obe
"Dan Baston is a long time contributor to both GEOS and PostGIS projects and one of the core maintainers of GEOS and a member of the GEOS Project steering committee. He has also made several contributions to the GDAL project and supports development in R.
Dan is a thoughtful contributor, both in how he handles users providing their first pull requests and his willingness to help users with bugs or build issues even if it is not an OS platform he is familiar with.
In addition to his general contributions you will often find Dan at OSGeo code sprints and on occasion FOSS4G events."
* Profile: Daniel Baston	
Brian M Hamlin
Regina Obe
8 	Lars Schylberg 	Sweden 	
From Astrid Emde
"I would like to nominate Lars Schylberg as OSGeo Charter Member. 
Lars is active in OSGeo since many years. He is active on both MapServer 
mailing lists and a real power user. Lars is a familiar face and speaker 
at conferences like FOSS4G. Lars Schylberg is a senior technical fellow 
at Saab corporation. He has a MSc in Land Surveying and a PhD in digital 
cartography from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden. 
Throughout his carrier he has been involved with software development 
and international standardization."
From Seth Girvin
"Lars has been a long-standing member of the OSGeo community, and has 
been present at numerous conferences and codesprints. His MapServer 
talks at FOSS4G are always greatly received, and bridge the gap between 
technology and cartography."
* Profile: Lars Schylberg	Astrid Emde
Seth Girvin
9 	Hans van der Kwast 	Netherlands 	
"Hans is really active in spreading the OSGeo love. As a teacher, he is 
promoting FOSS all the time, and because his teaching is especially 
aimed at young people from the global south, his influence is worldwide.
He is a board member and co-founder of the Dutch QGIS User Group, wrote
a book on QGIS for Hydrological Applications with Kurt Menke, and (also
together with Kurt) is working on quality control for the QGIS 
certification programme. His pro-active personality (and love of 
geobeers), together with his thorough involvement in organizing and 
promoting open GIS, makes him the perfect addition to the Charter 
Members."
* Profile: Hans van der Kwast	Erik Meerburg
10	Federica Gaspari 	Italy 	
"Federica studied at Politecnico di Milano, her research interests include GIS, photogrammetry, web-mapping and collaborative mapping. She is active in the OpenStreetMap community, serving as faculty advisor of PoliMappers (the group of Politecnico di Milano connected with YouthMappers). 
During the FOSS4G 2022 she was one of the co-chair of the social media committee, she is also member of SotM working group and member of local committee in 2018 and 2022."
* Profile: Federica Gaspari	Luca Delucchi
11	Torsten Friebe 	Germany 	
"I would like to nominate Torsten Friebe as OSGeo Charter Member. Torsten 
is active in OSGeo since many years. He is in the TMC and the chair of 
the deegree project, which is an OSGeo project since 2010. He also 
promoted OSGeo software at fairs. He is involved in OGC and worked on 
the implementation of OGC standards since 1999. He is a familiar face 
and speaker at conferences like FOSS4G and FOSSGIS."
* Profile: Torsten Friebe	Astrid Emde
12	Amy Burness 	South Africa 	
"Amy is a scientist, cartographer, and QGIS
enthusiast working at Kartoza as a GIS technician. She is the heart and
soul of the QGIS project's Open Day virtual event series. Every month,
she plans the sessions, coordinates the speakers and hosts this live
stream where she speaks with users and developers from all kinds of
backgrounds and levels of experience. The events are recorded and
available through the QGIS Youtube channel.
Many of you will remember her from FOSS4G 2022 where she presented a
lightning talk on ""QGIS and Community: The QGIS Open Day"" and recorded
interviews with many participants. Her numerous contributions to the
QGIS contributor meeting in the lead up to FOSS4G were extremely valuable."
* Profile: Amy Burness	Anita Graser
13	Stefan Blumentrath 	Norway/Germany 	
"I recommend Stefan as an OSGeo Charter Member. He is now contributing for
a long time to the GRASS GIS project, as a coder for the GRASS GIS source code as well as for GRASS GIS
addons. As a community member, Stefan has always a helping hand in the mailing list."
* Profile: Stefan Blumentrath
* Wiki: Stefan Blumentrath	Helmut Kudrnovsky
14	Krishna Lodha 	India 	
"It is my pleasure to nominate Krisha Lodha.  Krishna is an active 
contributor to FOSS GIS projects such as pygeoapi, geostyler, as well as
the Doing Geospatial with Python workshop.  He also is also an active 
content creator of blogs/videos outlining the FOSS stack (see her youtube channel). 
Krishna is driven in providing outreach and awareness to the FOSS4G 
community, and is personable, a pleasure to collaborate with and a team 
player."
* Profile: Krishna Lodha
* Wiki: Krishna Lodha	Tom Kralidis
15	Hannes Reuter 	Luxembourg 	
"Hannes Reuter is an open source geospatial user and ambassador. Since 
2013 he works at the European Commission in the team of GISCO (the 
Geographic Information System of the COmmission), where he always pushes
for the adoption of open source geospatial solutions to bridge 
technical feasibility and functional
requirements. Hannes is a regular participant and speaker at 
international FOSS4G conferences and he was among the organisers of the 
European Track titled A European approach to geospatial open source at
the recent FOSS4G 2022 in Florence."
* Profile: Hannes Reuter	Marco Minghini
16	Johannes Kröger 	Germany 	
"It is my pleasure to nominate Johannes Kröger as OSGeo Charter Member. 
Johannes is active in the Open Source geospatial World since many years. 
He is active in the QGIS project writing plugins, submitting bug 
reports, fixing bugs and also teaching QGIS at FOSS Academy. He is also 
a regular fellow in GDAL's IRC chat channel, answering questions and 
presenting or teaching about GDAL on conferences. He is a familiar face 
and speaker at conferences like FOSS4G and FOSSGIS. As part of his 
activities in the German society for cartography (Deutsche Gesellschaft 
für Kartografie e. V.) he organizes the annual 
News-Infographies-Analytics-Maps symposium and co-organizes the 
monthly CartoHack."
* Profile: Johannes Kröger	Astrid Emde
17	Simeon Fitch 	United States 	
"Simeon has prior involvement in several OSGeo projects. He is the architect of RasterFrames, a committer on GeoTrellis, contributor to GeoMesa, but I know him as the newest developer of the Rust GDAL bindings. In each of our interactions there, he was thoughtful and patient. I think these are great qualities for an OSGeo charter member and am happy to nominate him for this position."
* Profile: Simeon Fitch	Laurențiu Nicola
18	Francesco Frassinelli 	Norway 	
"It is my pleasure to nominate Francesco Frassinelli as an OSGeo Charter 
Member. Francesco is an experienced open source software developer, 
currently working at the 
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research as
coordinator for environmental data. He has contributed to several open 
source geospatial projects, including GeoNode and Geopaparazzi as well 
as open source projects related to OpenStreetMap such as the Tasking 
Manager. His experience and passion makes him an excellent candidate for
Charter membership."
* Profile: Francesco Frassinelli	Marco Minghini
19	Wladimir Szczerban Llatas 	Spain/Venezuela	
"Wladimir has been involved with the geographic FLOSS 
since 2005.He is an active member of OSGeo and is involved in the 
OSGeo-es chapter and the OSM-es community. He was part of the local 
organization team of the 2010 FOSS4G in Barcelona."
* Profile: Wladimir Szczerban Llatas	María Arias de Reyna Domínguez
20	Paul van Genuchten 	Netherlands 	
"It is my pleasure to nominate Paul van Genuchten.  Paul is 
an SDI specialist at ISRIC - World Soil Information. His work
focuses on enabling soil datasets on the web using common standards and
open source software. Paul also provides training on open source 
software and INSPIRE. 
He is a member of the PSC of pygeoapi and GeoNetwork opensource 
projects, and contributes to many 
other projects. Paul has a spark for innovation combined with user 
driven requirements, and is a great team player on numerous efforts in 
the OSGeo community."
* Profile: Paul van Genuchten
* Wiki: Paul van Genuchten	Tom Kralidis
21	Jordi Escriu 	Spain 	
"I am pleased to nominate Jordi Escriu as an OSGeo Charter Member. Jordi 
has a longstanding experience in designing and operating Spatial Data 
Infrastructures (SDIs) leveraging on open standards and open source 
software. He has been the Head of Unit of the regional SDI in Catalonia 
and has collaborated since 2008 in the activities around the 
conceptualisation of the European INSPIRE infrastructure, contributing 
to Technical Guidelines, acting as thematic expert and liaising with 
several communities around SDIs. Since 2021 he works at the Joint 
Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, where he contributes 
his experience to help manage and operate the INSPIRE infrastructure. He
is currently leading the transition of the INSPIRE Geoportal to a 
GeoNetwork-based open source component."
* Profile: Jordi Escriu	Marco Minghini
22	Raymond Nijssen 	Netherlands 	
"Raymond
is one of the more active members in the QGIS community, 
internationally and especially locally in the Netherlands. A committer 
for QGIS, a sponsor for every other piece of FOSS. He is a board member 
and co-founder of the Dutch QGIS User Group, trainer and problem solver 
(plugins!) for many in the Netherlands, can always be counted on in 
helping out with the organisation of the FOSS4GNL, and is main organiser
for the QGIS Hackfest in March 2020, which fell victim to Corona. But 
hey, that’s all in the past. He will be organiser of the upcoming QGIS 
Hackfest again, and we expect him to keep up the good OSGeo work in the 
years to come. I’m very happy to nominate him as a new OSGeo charter 
member."
* Profile: Raymond Nijssen	Erik Meerburg
23	Lorenzo Stucchi 	Italy 	
"Lorenzo is PhD candidate at Politecnico di
Milano in collaboration with Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico – RSE
S.p.A. His research activity is focused on Geographic Information
Systems and Remote Sensing for the renewable energy sector. He is
involved in Italian OpenStreetMap Community as National Coordinator
for OSM activities in Wikimedia Italia (Italian OSM Local chapter) and
one of the co-founders of PoliMapper (the YouthMappers group of
Politecnico). He was really involved in the FOSS4G 2022 organization
helping in several aspec"
* Profile: Lorenzo Stucchi
* Wiki: Lorenzo Stucchi	Luca Delucchi
24	Nestor Gustavo Lopez 	Argentina 	
"Gustavo
is an active member of the Argentinian Geo community, working for 
government institutions as GIS Technician in Geo related topics for 
almost 12 years, supporter of free open source software, member of 
Geoinquietos community, Committee member and treasurer of Geolibres 
Asociacion Civil, IDERA’s (Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales de la 
República Argentina) Metadata Work group Coordinator, Qgis, Geoserver 
and Geonetwork User, Responsable of Geo Metadata in ARBA, FOSS4G 2021 
Buenos Aires Collaborator."
* Profile: Nestor Gustavo Lopez	Ariel Anthieni
25	Melvin Lizano Araya 	Costa Rica 	
"Melvin
has supported the use of free and open source software for many years, 
teaching courses in Geography, as well as professional updating 
workshops for Ministries or Public Institutions. He has also organized 
many activities disseminating free geographic
information technologies."
* Profile: Melvin Lizano Araya	Sergio Acosta y Lara
26	Walter Shilman 	Argentina 	
"Walter is a member of the Argentinian community Geoinquiet@s. He is 
currently working in a company of Open Source (mainly gis-based) in 
Latin American. Soon to be informatical engineer. With a few 
contributions for open source projects, hope to be increasing, for 
example Geonode, Geonetwork, Kobotoolbox."
* Profile: Walter Shilman	Horacio Castellaro
27	Tatiana Pará Monteiro de Freitas	Brazil 	
"Tatiana is the leader of one of the GeoForAll Iberoamerica labs in
Pará (Amazonas-Brazil). She is an enthusiast of FOSS4G and very active 
promoting the use of these technologies in her country and continent."
* Profile: Tatiana Pará Monteiro de Freitas
* Wiki: Tatiana Pará Monteiro de Freitas	Sergio Acosta y Lara
28	Ben Hur Pintor 	Philippines 	
"I would like to nominate Ben Hur Pintor. Ben Hur has been a passionate 
advocate for open source geospatial and open data for many years. He's 
especially active in the Philippines, where he's been a key organiser of
Pista Ng Mapa, the ""Festival of Maps"", bringing together the PH FOSS4G 
community in person and online. He shares his knowledge by providing 
training and support locally and internationally You can tell he's a 
true believer in open source principles by his frequent social media 
posts advocating for openness and transparency. I believe he would be a 
very positive addition to the OSGeo charter membership."
* Profile: Ben Hur Pintor	John Bryant
29	Marian Neagul 	Romania 	
"It is my pleasure to nominate Marian Neagul. Marian has been a passionate
and energetic contributor to our Romanian and international community 
for many years now. Marian used his strong computer science experience 
to help the community and several of our important software projects. 
It's a regular attendee to FOSS4G events and a participant in geospatial
standardization efforts with Open Geospatial Consortium and the 
European Space Agency. I think Marian would be a great addition to the 
OSGeo charter membership."
* Profile: Marian Neagul	Vasile Crăciunescu
30	Harissou Sant-Anna 	France 	
"Harissou, known as Delazj a geo-engineer with urban planning specialty. 
He is probably the most prolific contributor to QGIS documentation and 
translation. He achieves a tremendous work to allow end-user to have a 
very high quality documentation for QGIS. He is a founding member of the
QGIS local user group in France and  also a honorary member of 
QGIS.org. Last but not least, he also developed the Maps Printer QGIS 
plugin."
* Profile: Harissou Sant-Anna	Vincent Picavet
31	Harry McCormack 	United Kingdom 	
"Harry has been in the geospatial domain for over a decade. He has been 
actively using gdal package to handle satellite data processing, 
including
more advanced InSAR technology. Currently, he is leading a team of over
ten developers under the Innovation Team of CGG to develop cutting-edge
geospatial solutions. I firmly believe he would have a lot to share and
learn from this new membership. More about
Harry can be read here. Thanks a lot."
* Profile: Harry McCormack	Mohammed Zia
32	Mariana Gasparotto 	Argentina 	
"Mariana is a Professor of Spatial Data Infrastructures at
the Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 
where she widely spreads the use of Free and Open Source Software for 
Geospatial. She was a Member of the Scientific Committee and took part 
of the Local Organizing Committee of FOSS4G Buenos Aires 2021. She also 
served as a reviewer of scientific works for FOSS4G Firenze 2022"
* Profile: Mariana Gasparotto	Ariel Anthieni
33	Emma Hain 	Italy 	
"Emma has been a long term user of, and advocate for, open source
geospatial tools and communities in Australia. She is a valuable
member of the local QGIS community and has a deep understanding of
industry transformation to open source geospatial software.
I first met Emma at FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2018, and worked with her on
the 2019 FOSS4G SotM Oceania local organising committee. She is full
of ideas, inspiration and passion delivered in a caring and
community-centered way. Emma served on the OSGeo Oceania board for two
years (2020, 2021) and remains a key member of the Oceania open source
geospatial community.
Emma currently works at Nyall Dawson's company, North Road, where part
of her responsibilities is to build the Australian QGIS community
through management of the QGIS AU Twitter and LinkedIn accounts and
associated activities. She is also currently one of the Program Chairs
for the Pacific Geospatial Conference which incorporates FOSS4G SoTM
Oceania."
* Profile: Emma Hain	Adam Steer
34	Claudia Vitolo 	Italy 	
"It is my pleasure to nominate Claudia as an OSGeo Charter Member. She is an 
experienced Earth Observation Senior Scientist and a very active and powerful supporter and promoter 
of the open source ethic in the geospatial field. Her relentless contributions to the community, 
such as the mentoring activities for the Google Summer of Code, Kaggle and ECMWF Summer of Weather 
Code, or working for establishing the R-Ladies Global and the WomenInGeospatial+ communities stand 
proof of her strong engagement to the same principles and values as OSGeo."
* Profile: Claudia Vitolo	Ilie Codrina
35	Julien Moura 	France 	
"Julien has been a strong advocating voice for geomatics in general and 
opensource in particular. He co-created Geotribu, the leading news blog 
for everything geo in France, and is currently one of his most active 
maintener and contributor. Julien develops OpenSource GIS software, 
especially QGIS Python plugins, be it at work for Oslandia or sometimes 
on his free time. He alsocontributes to conferences ( FOSS4G, QGIS days 
FR… ). He has an extensive knowledge of the FOSS4G ecosystem and 
continues to advocate for more opensource and opendata in this domain."
* Profile: Julien Moura	Vincent Picavet
36	Stefanie Lumnitz 	Italy 	
"It is my pleasure to nominate Stefanie as an OSGeo Charter Member. She is a 
spatial data scientist, heavily involved in open source activities, be it coding (she is a core 
developer for the Python Spatial Analysis Library), mentoring (Google Summer of Code mentor for 
dask-geopandas and PySAL) or community engagement work. Stefanie is a long-standing active supporter 
and promoter of the open source/open science principles in the Earth Observation domain and thus I 
fully support her to become and OSGeo Charter Member."
* Profile: Stefanie Lumnitz	Ilie Codrina
37	Ivan Ivanov 	Bulgaria 	
"Ivan
is contributing to various open source projects like QGIS and QField. 
He is also actively expanding the footprint and impact of open source 
geospatial tools through his activities around forming a bulgarian QGIS 
user group.""
* Profile: Ivan Ivanov	Matthias Kuhn
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