I second Luciene's nomination. I know her from ICA-OSGeo Labs and from her mentor role in GSoC 2014. Her contribution to OSGeo educational initiatives is invaluable.
Anne On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:11:46 +0100 Suchith Anand <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > Suchith
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