On 2013/07/14 20:17, Margherita Di Leo wrote:
Hi All,
Let us nominate Yann Chemin [0] from France / Sri Lanka (rather "citizen of
the world"), for OSGeo Charter membership.
I second the nomination of Yann Chemin.
Would be great to have Yann as Charter Member.
Venka
Yann is a researcher at IWMI [3,9], Visiting Lecturer at University of
Colombo [4] and Visiting Lecturer/Consultant at University of Moratuwa [5],
Sri Lanka.
His research interest lies in water, land and planetary remote sensing [1]
.
One of his major goals is to provide extensive information on soil and
vegetation from remote sensing sources, that are often the only data
sources available in developing countries.
We (Anne & Madi) met Yann at GRASS Community Sprint in Genova in 2013 [6],
after many years of email exchange and contributions on GRASS GIS
documentation. We had the opportunity to meet him again [7] in GRASS
Community Sprint in Prague [8], where we discussed extensively on how open
source geospatial software can improve education and land management in Sri
Lanka, where he currently lives.
We believe that Yann would be a very effective Charter Member. He is a
passionate promoter of open source geospatial, a skilled researcher and a
great communicator.
Anne, Margherita and Jachym
[0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Yann_Chemin
[1] http://iwmi.academia.edu/YannChemin
[2] http://fr.linkedin.com/pub/yann-chemin/36/b79/bbb/
[3] http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/
[4] http://www.cmb.ac.lk/
[5] http://www.mrt.ac.lk/foa/
[6] http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Genova_2013
[7]
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/1001602_10151742246629248_1903368345_n.jpg
[8] http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Prague_2013
[9]
http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/2013/06/measuring-a-plants-health-from-the-sky/
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