2014-07-29 21:11 GMT+02:00 Suchith Anand <[email protected]>: > It is my great pleasure to nominate Dr Luciene Delzari (Federal University > of Parana, Brazil) for OSGeo charter membership. > > Dr Luciene Delazari is assistant professor in Cartography and GIS at the > Federal University of Parana, Brazil. Over the years Luciene taught many > courses in Cartography and GIS, both at undergraduate and graduate level. She > gave guest lectures, tutorials and courses at universities and conferences in > many cities around Brazil. She is leading Cartography and GIS research at > Geodetic Science Program and published over 20 journal papers in this field. > Her research interests and publications are in cartographic visualisation, > interface design for cartographic products and automated cartographic design. > Luciene is the cochair of the Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance > https://rd-alliance.org/group/geospatial-ig.html and also is coeditor for > Special issue is on "Open Geospatial Science and Applications" of ISPRS > International Journal of Geo-Information.Her details are at > http://people.ufpr.br/~luciene/site.htm > > Luciene has provided us huge support in our education efforts esp in > establishing Open Source Geospatial Labs in Brazil and now is actively > helping and supporting colleagues in other universities in Brazil and across > South America to start Open Source Geospatial Labs in their universities. > > I also had the opportunity of working with her when she visited Nottingham > University for a one year visiting research fellowship. During her time at > Nottingham, she actively contributed to "Geo for All" initiative and also > helped build many collaborations in Open GIS. She also is supervising a > Google Summer of Code student in schematisation plugin for QGIS . Now back in > her university in Brazil, i am sure she will further build more momentum for > OSGeo's education activities there. > > I believe Luciene Delzari will be an excellent OSGeo charter member and will > help in further building up our global strength. Thanks. >
Hi all, Luciene has just confirmed Suchith nomination, you can find some more details about her here http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Lu_delazari Cheers Jorge -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
