Thank you to all the Heroes of the community; Sergio, Maria, Lluis, and
Rafael all deserve tons of praise, as well as Suchith himself for all
his tireless work promoting GeoForAll. I like this award idea, in this
busy crazy world, it's nice to be thanked for doing the little things.
Maybe a section of the GeoForAll site could be dedicated to the current
GeoForAll heroes.
-jeff
On 2014-12-16 5:17 AM, Suchith Anand wrote:
Dear all,
<http://2013.foss4g.org/>When i look back at 2014 and see the amazing
work that all of you have done for , it gives me great inspiration for
working hard for this mission in 2015 and each and every one of you who
have been contributing your efforts are *"Geo for All" Heros*. But i
thought it will be appropriate to acknowledge some of our amazing people
whose work and efforts has inspired all of us a lot.
*Sergio Acosta y Lara and colleague*s at gvSIG Batoví initiative in
Uruguay who have done amazing contribution for widening high quality
education opportunities for students all across Uruguay through
the wider CEIBAL Initiative http://www.ceibal.org.uy/ by developing
excellent educational tools that enables primary and secondary education
students to understand space, to easily interpret maps and to learn free
technologies. The video link (with English translation)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwN9K07XPo
speaks for itself the contribution of CEIBAL and i hope this will
inspire other developing and poor countries to invest in free and open
technologies in primary and secondary school education, so that the
students (esp. from poor backgrounds) will also get access to high
quality educational resources and opportunities.
*Professor Maria Brovelli* who is respected by everyone in the FOSS4G
community for not only her great research contributions but also for her
kindness and compassion. Her background support and work on many
initiatives from NASA Worldwind Europa Challenge to various Summer
Schools and now working hard to host the FOSS4G-Europe in 2015, clearly
shows her commitment for widening education opportunities in Geospatial
for everyone.
*Jason Sadler* from University of Southampton has worked hard to develop
and maintain our Geo for All http://www.geoforall.org
<http://www.geoforall.org/> website. We all are grateful for his and
other colleagues at Southampton's efforts and contributions for this.
Also *Luca Delucchi *and *Vaclav Petras* who helped create the dynamic
map for Geo for All labs.
*Lluis Vicens* of SIGTE , University of Girona is the driving force
behind the very successful Open Source GIS Summer School Initiative
http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2014/
which is now in its fifth year. By making available all the teaching
materials for the Summer School to everyone through the website , its
impact is not only for students who attend the summer school but for
everyone.
*Dr Rafael Moreno* of University of Colarado, Denver, USA who has not
only the driving force for the FOSS4G lab at University of Colarado
http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/
but also been working hard to provide geo education opportunities to
more staff and students in other countries.
So big thank you for all of you for your contributions to Open
Education and your work and contributions will keep inspiring all of us
for the future. The fundamental principle of "Geo for All" is to enable
education opportunities for everyone and Openness in Education (Free and
Open software, open standards, open data, open access to research
publications) provide great opportunities for widening education
opportunities.
Best wishes,
Suchith
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