I would like to nominate Dr Serena Coetzee, University of Pretoria (South Africa) as Charter Member of OSGeo. Serena has done excellent contributions to the educational efforts of OSGeo. She not only established and lead the first Open Source Geospatial Laboratory in Africa http://www.osgeo.org/node/1279 but is actively helping and sharing expertise with other universities in Africa for building up the educational efforts. Her short biography below
Serena Coetzee joined the University of Pretoria in 2006, where she received her PhD on data grids, SDIs and address data in the Department of Computer Science. She is now in the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology where she leads the Centre for Geoinformation Science http://www.up.ac.za/cgis and established the first Open Geospatial Laboratory in Africa. Her research interests are geospatial web services, geographic information standards, address data, spatial databases and SDIs. Serena actively participates in international geographic information standardization efforts in ISO/TC 211, Geographic Information/Geomatics, where she leads the ISO 19160, Addressing, project and chairs the ISO/TC 211 Programme Maintenance Group (PMG). She also leads SANS 1883, the South African Address standard. Serena started her career as a software engineer on the development teams of desktop GIS products. Subsequently, at AfriGIS, she led GIS projects on spatial data capt uring, manipulation and maintenance to geocoding, spatial analysis and Internet mapping. Best wishes, Suchith Dr Suchith Anand Nottingham Geospatial Institute Nottingham Geospatial Building University of Nottingham Tel: (0)115 82 32750 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/research/researchareas/opensourcegeospatialresearch.aspx http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/ Leading Open Geospatial Science through ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies Mission - Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research for bridging the digital divideThis message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
