Well deserved indeed!! Congrats Patrick!!!
On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Suchith Anand < suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > On behalf of GeoforAll community, It is my great pleasure to introduce > Patrick Hogan as our GeoAmbassador. Patrick Hogan began his U.S. Government > career with the Environmental Protection Agency in 1990, and then joined > NASA a year later as their senior environmental geologist at Ames Research > Center. In 2002 Patrick was asked to lead the NASA Learning Technologies > program. This is where NASA World Wind was born, the world's first open > source virtual globe program. In 2009 World Wind received the prestigious > NASA Software of the Year award. There are versions of World Wind in Java, > Android and for the Web in JavaScript. We are especially grateful for > Patrick’s efforts in creating the NASA Europa Challenge initiative which > adds great momentum to our efforts to promote openness in education and > research worldwide. Now in its fifth edition the aim of this challenge is > to inspire ideas for building great applications that serves the INSPIRE > Directive and uses NASA’s open source virtual globe technology World Wind. > This NASA challenge attracts the best minds to develop their ideas covering > a broad range of domains from transportation to air quality to linked data. > > Details of his contributions are at http://opensourcegeospatial. > icaci.org/2017/06/geoambassodor-patrick-hogan/ > > We are proud to honour Patrick as our GeoAmbassodor and we are extremely > grateful for his contributions to Geo for All and for Open Principles in > Education. > > I am grateful for this opportunity of introducing some of our amazing > colleagues from different parts of our world each month as our > GeoAmbassadors and get inspired by their amazing work and contributions for > the wider community. > > Best wishes, > > Suchith > > > > > > This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee > and may contain confidential information. If you have received this > message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. > > Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this > message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the > author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the > University of Nottingham. > > This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an > attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your > computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email > communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as > permitted by UK legislation. > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Margherita Di Leo
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