Hi Anne, all, I second Peter's nomination as charter member. I've met him at GRASS Community Sprint 2011 and I think he's a natural OSGeo ambassador.
Thanks, Margherita On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Anne Ghisla <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I'd like to nominate Peter Löwe [0] for OSGeo Charter Membership. > He is active in Free and Open Source GIS development for more than a > decade, specifically in the field of remote sensing, but also on rule > based systems, crisis management, high performance computation... > > He collaborated with FOSSGIS.de (he has been its very first > non-founding member), Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam GFZ, the > South African Metereological Service (where he successfully introduced > his team to GRASS GIS), Geomancers.net and RapidEye AG among others > [1]. > He wrote several GRASS modules, available in Addons [2], and obtained > RapidEye data for i.atcorr module [3], been a developer of the GISIX > live-linux DVD [4]. Moreover, he won several research prizes with FOSS > GIS work [see details at 0,1] > > I met Peter at FOSS4G 2010 in Barcelona, and worked with him during > GRASS Community Sprint 2011 in Prague. He has been so far an effective > ambassador of OSGeo in corporate/academic environment, and he would > benefit from the official recognition of OSGeo community to achieve > further objectives. > > [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Peter_Loewe > [1] http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterloewe > [2] http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_AddOns > [3] > http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/44358/grass/trunk/imagery/i.atcorr > [4] > > http://www.gisdevelopment.net/proceedings/fossgrass/papers/GISIX%20-%20a%20live%20Linux%20platform%20for%20FOSS%20GIS.pdf(PDF > file) > > Best regards, > Anne > -- > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aghisla > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > -- Dr. Margherita Di Leo
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