In 2022, we had 37 nominations and all were accepted. This year, 225 votes were casted. It was a lower number than last year (230 in 2021, 304 in 2020, then 209 in 2019, 276 in 2018 for comparison). The OSGeo board approved the new members in November 2022.
We are happy to announce that the following people were accepted as OSGeo Charter Members:
- Bianca Federici from Italy
- Seabilwe Tilodi from South Africa
- Tomas Holderness from United Kingdom
- Besfort Guri from Kosovo
- Markus Mayr from Austria
- Darafei Praliaskouski from Belarus
- Daniel Baston from United States
- Lars Schylberg from Sweden
- Hans van der Kwast from Netherlands
- Federica Gaspari from Italy
- Torsten Friebe from Germany
- Amy Burness from South Africa
- Stefan Blumentrath from Norway/Germany
- Krishna Lodha from India
- Hannes Reuter from Luxembourg
- Johannes Kröger from Germany
- Simeon Fitch from United States
- Francesco Frassinelli from Norway
- Wladimir Szczerban Llatas from Spain/Venezuela
- Paul van Genuchten from Netherlands
- Jordi Escriu from Spain
- Raymond Nijssen from Netherlands
- Lorenzo Stucchi from Italy
- Nestor Gustavo Lopez from Argentina
- Melvin Lizano Araya from Costa Rica
- Walter Shilman from Argentina
- Tatiana Pará Monteiro de Freitas from Brazil
- Ben Hur Pintor from Philippines
- Marian Neagul from Romania
- Harissou Sant-Anna from France
- Harry McCormack from United Kingdom
- Mariana Gasparotto from Argentina
- Emma Hain from Italy
- Claudia Vitolo from Italy
- Julien Moura from France
- Stefanie Lumnitz from Italy
- Ivan Ivanov from Bulgaria
You are welcome to find out about our new members at the following page https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2022
See the full list of the OSGeo Charters member and find a link to every profile page there https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/
OSGeo now has a total number of 520 members from 67 countries (you can access the interactive version here).
Thanks a lot to Jorge Gustavo Rocha, Vicky Vergara and Vasile Craciunescu (2022 OSGeo Elections CROs) for organizing the OSGeo Election 2022.
