Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board Nomination for Angelos Tzotsos

2016-09-12 Thread Paolo Corti 
There are many excellent nominations this year, so it will be hard to
make a choice.

But in the case of Angelos I'd like to spend some words as I have been
interacting with him directly on some projects. He is really a great
guy, always very kind with a great attitude to help others. He has an
awesome and extended knowledge of the OSGeo community and its related
projects.
I think he would be an awesome asset for the OSGeo community, so I
would like to strongly second his nomination.

p

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Jorge Sanz  wrote:
> Forwarding Angelos Tzotsos nomination to the board of directors by Jeff
> McKenna
>
> Best,
> Jorge
> CRO 2016
>
> -- Mensaje reenviado --
> De: "Jeff McKenna" 
> Fecha: 8 sept. 2016 19:22
> Asunto: Board nomination for Angelos Tzotsos
> Para: 
> Cc: "Angelos Tzotsos" 
>
>> name: Angelos Tzotsos
>> e-mail: tzot...@gmail.com
>> country: Greece
>>
>> It is my pleasure and honour to nominate Angelos Tzotsos for the OSGeo
>> Board of Directors.  As most of the community knows, Angelos is extremely
>> dedicated, and passionately does whatever he can do help with all things
>> OSGeo.  It is hard to list all of his activities, but he is most known as
>> the chair of the OSGeo-Live team, as well as being a project steering
>> committee member for the pycsw and ZOO-Project communities; Angelos is very
>> active in many other OSGeo communities[1]. He is a senior researcher at the
>> National Technical University of Athens, but you can see his smile at FOSS4G
>> events all around the world.  Angelos is very easy going, approachable, and
>> brings a get-things-done mentality; I feel strongly that he will do a great
>> job representing the OSGeo community at the highest level.  Please welcome
>> Angelos to the Board of Directors.
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Angelos_Tzotsos
>>
>>
>> -Jeff McKenna
>> President Emeritus, OSGeo
>>
>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Kalpana Chawla Chair on Geospatial Technology and our new OSGeo lab at PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, India

2016-09-12 Thread Ravi Kumar 
Great to know this. Well done Geo4all. Hope the lab will be a beacon to
popularise Open Source GIS, the OSGeo Initiative.
Cheers
Ravi Kumar

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Suchith Anand <
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> It is my great pleasure to welcome PEC University of Technology,
> Chandigarh, India http://www.pec.ac.in/ as our new OSGeo lab. PEC
> University of Technology, formerly known as Punjab Engineering College, is
> an engineering institute located in the city of Chandigarh, India. Founded
> in 1921, it is one of the oldest educational institutes in India. I also
> really like the motto of PEC (Tamaso Ma Jyotirgamaya) which in Sanskrit the
> meaning of which is "From darkness (of ignorance) lead us to Light (of
> Knowledge)"
>
> Prof. Manoj Arora who is heading  as Director (Vice Chancellor), PEC
> University of Technology Chandigarh and Professor of Civil Engineering, IIT
> Roorkee (on lien)  where he is working as Professor in Remote Sensing in
> the department of Civil Engineering is the main force behind the
> establishment of OSGeo lab at PEC. He has also shared the good news that
> they now have partnered with Indian Railways to establish Kalpana Chawla
> Chair on Geospatial Technology at PEC.
>
> Kalpana Chawla [1] was an Indo-American astronaut and the first woman of
> Indian origin in space. She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as
> a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator. In 2003, Chawla was
> one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia
> disaster. She was a true global citizen working for the advancement of
> science for all, so it is fitting tribute that through PEC , one of our
> OSGeo labs will have chair in geospatial technologies established in her
> honour. I thank Dr Manoj Arora  and other colleagues who have worked hard
> to make this possible and Indian Railways for funding this chair.
>
>
> OSGeo Lab at PEC shall help the UN 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development
> for building a better world. This lab shall have following specific
> objectives:
>
> 1. To promote open-source geospatial software, open data, open standards
> in the nearby geographic locations.
>
> 2. To provide training and expertise in the geospatial field.
>
> Manoj has visited Nottingham University twice in recent time (though i
> couldnt meet him!) (June and Sept 2014 for a day each) as part of
> delegation from Chandigarh Region Innovation and Knowledge Cluster (CRIKC)
> http://crikc.puchd.ac.in  .  CRIKC is a cluster of 15 odd academic
> institutions and research institutions in Chandigarh with Vice Chancellor,
> Panjab University, as the Chairman. CRIKC has signed MoU with University of
> Nottingham to have academic collaboration in many different ways. I can see
> many research synergies in open geospatial esp. in Opencitysmart research
> that we will be able to able to explore in the future.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> Dr. Suchith Anand
>
> http://www.geoforall.org/
>
> Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science
>
>
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpana_Chawla
>
>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Kalpana Chawla Chair on Geospatial Technology and our new OSGeo lab at PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, India

2016-09-12 Thread Suchith Anand 
Dear colleagues,


It is my great pleasure to welcome PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, 
India http://www.pec.ac.in/ as our new OSGeo lab. PEC University of Technology, 
formerly known as Punjab Engineering College, is an engineering institute 
located in the city of Chandigarh, India. Founded in 1921, it is one of the 
oldest educational institutes in India. I also really like the motto of PEC 
(Tamaso Ma Jyotirgamaya) which in Sanskrit the meaning of which is "From 
darkness (of ignorance) lead us to Light (of Knowledge)"

Prof. Manoj Arora who is heading  as Director (Vice Chancellor), PEC University 
of Technology Chandigarh and Professor of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee (on 
lien)  where he is working as Professor in Remote Sensing in the department of 
Civil Engineering is the main force behind the establishment of OSGeo lab at 
PEC. He has also shared the good news that they now have partnered with Indian 
Railways to establish Kalpana Chawla Chair on Geospatial Technology at PEC.


Kalpana Chawla [1] was an Indo-American astronaut and the first woman of Indian 
origin in space. She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission 
specialist and primary robotic arm operator. In 2003, Chawla was one of the 
seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. She was a 
true global citizen working for the advancement of science for all, so it is 
fitting tribute that through PEC , one of our OSGeo labs will have chair in 
geospatial technologies established in her honour. I thank Dr Manoj Arora  and 
other colleagues who have worked hard to make this possible and Indian Railways 
for funding this chair.


OSGeo Lab at PEC shall help the UN 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development for 
building a better world. This lab shall have following specific objectives:

1. To promote open-source geospatial software, open data, open standards in the 
nearby geographic locations.

2. To provide training and expertise in the geospatial field.


Manoj has visited Nottingham University twice in recent time (though i couldnt 
meet him!) (June and Sept 2014 for a day each) as part of delegation from 
Chandigarh Region Innovation and Knowledge Cluster (CRIKC)  
http://crikc.puchd.ac.in  .  CRIKC is a cluster of 15 odd academic 
institutions and research institutions in Chandigarh with Vice Chancellor, 
Panjab University, as the Chairman. CRIKC has signed MoU with University of 
Nottingham to have academic collaboration in many different ways. I can see 
many research synergies in open geospatial esp. in Opencitysmart research that 
we will be able to able to explore in the future.

Best wishes,

Suchith

Dr. Suchith Anand

http://www.geoforall.org/


Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpana_Chawla





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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board Nomination for Maria Brovelli

2016-09-12 Thread Jachym Cepicky 
Wow!

J

so 10. 9. 2016 v 13:51 odesílatel Siki Zoltan  napsal:

>
> +1, too
>
> Zoltan
>
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2016, Andrea Ross wrote:
>
> > +1 for Maria. She has done some amazing work for quite some time & is a
> > joy to work with.
> >
> > Andrea
> >
> > On 09/09/16 07:27, Luigi Pirelli wrote:
> >> clap clap clap for Maria :)
> >> Luigi Pirelli
> >>
> >>
> >
> **
> >> * Boundless QGIS Support/Development: lpirelli AT boundlessgeo DOT com
> >> * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli
> >> * Stackexchange: http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli
> >> * GitHub: https://github.com/luipir
> >> * Mastering QGIS:
> >> https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/mastering-qgis
> >>
> >
> **
> >>
> >>
> >> On 9 September 2016 at 12:08, Jorge Sanz  wrote:
> >>> Forwarding Maria Brovelli nomination to the board of directors by
> >>> Helena Mitasova
> >>>
> >>> Best,
> >>> Jorge
> >>> CRO 2016
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -- Forwarded message --
> >>> From: Helena Mitasova 
> >>> Date: 9 September 2016 at 05:07
> >>> Subject: nomination of Maria Brovelli
> >>> To: c...@osgeo.org
> >>> Cc: Maria Antonia Brovelli 
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Maria Brovelli
> >>> maria.brove...@polimi.it
> >>> Italy
> >>>
> >>> I would like to nominate Professor Maria Brovelli for the board of
> > directors.
> >>> She is very well know in the community for her passion for open source
> >>> software and open data,
> >>> leader of numerous initiatives, including the latest outreach to United
> > Nations,
> >>> hosting FOSS4G Europe in 2015 and organizing several open source and
> >>> open data sessions
> >>> at the ISPRS congres in Prague in 2016.
> >>> Her leadership and contributions to OSGeo were recognized by Sol Katz
> >>> award in 2015
> >>> and she is on the advisory board and one of the regional directors of
> >>> GeoForAll initiative.
> >>> She advised many students who made significant contributions to
> >>> several OSGeo projects
> >>> including GRASS GIS and understands both the community building and
> >>> the software development issues.
> >>> I feel strongly that she will be able to take on the challenging tasks
> >>> and often complex
> >>> decision making that comes with the the board of directors membership
> >>> given her experience as
> >>> Vice Rector for the Como Campus of Politecnico di Milano. See her page
> >>> for more information
> >>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maria
> >>>
> >>> Helena
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