Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Massimiliano Cannata
I would like to second this nomination. I first met Max, or Maxi, back in 2004 at the FOSS4G event in Thailand (actually this was the first event to use the FOSS4G name); Max has been involved in FOSS4G for a very long time. I've also had the pleasure to work closely with him as he stayed several months in Canada in 2005, where he was working on floodplain mapping with GRASS and MapServer. Most recently he was involved with releasing GeoShield[1], which tackles that important issue of security for interoperable services. Max has welcomed me into his beautiful home of Como, Italy, on several occasions. I consider him and his colleagues very good friends. Max's passion and experience make him an excellent representative of OSGeo. -jeff [1] https://sites.google.com/site/geoshieldproject/ On 12-06-28 10:27 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: Dear All, I would like to nominate Dr. Massimiliano Cannata as new Charter Member. Dr. Cannata is heading the Geinformatics Division at University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). He is a regular at FOSS4G meetings and has presented several interesting results on hazard mapping, sensor networks, data security etc. He is a PSC member of the GRASS projject and the ZOO project. His researches are entirely based on developing and using FOSS4G solutions. He is also known internationally through his research collaborations and wide travels. He has strong links in the academic, inter-governmental and industry circles. Venka -- Jeff McKenna MapServer Consulting and Training Services http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Massimiliano Cannata
Hi All, I'd also like to second this great nomination. Maxi was there since the begining, and he's one of the best OSGeo advocate i know so far Nick 2012/6/29 Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com I would like to second this nomination. I first met Max, or Maxi, back in 2004 at the FOSS4G event in Thailand (actually this was the first event to use the FOSS4G name); Max has been involved in FOSS4G for a very long time. I've also had the pleasure to work closely with him as he stayed several months in Canada in 2005, where he was working on floodplain mapping with GRASS and MapServer. Most recently he was involved with releasing GeoShield[1], which tackles that important issue of security for interoperable services. Max has welcomed me into his beautiful home of Como, Italy, on several occasions. I consider him and his colleagues very good friends. Max's passion and experience make him an excellent representative of OSGeo. -jeff [1] https://sites.google.com/site/geoshieldproject/ On 12-06-28 10:27 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: Dear All, I would like to nominate Dr. Massimiliano Cannata as new Charter Member. Dr. Cannata is heading the Geinformatics Division at University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). He is a regular at FOSS4G meetings and has presented several interesting results on hazard mapping, sensor networks, data security etc. He is a PSC member of the GRASS projject and the ZOO project. His researches are entirely based on developing and using FOSS4G solutions. He is also known internationally through his research collaborations and wide travels. He has strong links in the academic, inter-governmental and industry circles. Venka -- Jeff McKenna MapServer Consulting and Training Services http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Massimiliano Cannata
Dear All, I would like to nominate Dr. Massimiliano Cannata as new Charter Member. Dr. Cannata is heading the Geinformatics Division at University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). He is a regular at FOSS4G meetings and has presented several interesting results on hazard mapping, sensor networks, data security etc. He is a PSC member of the GRASS projject and the ZOO project. His researches are entirely based on developing and using FOSS4G solutions. He is also known internationally through his research collaborations and wide travels. He has strong links in the academic, inter-governmental and industry circles. Venka On 2012/06/29 5:20, Daniel Morissette wrote: I'd like to second Thomas' nomination. Thomas is another one of those individuals that we're so used to seeing around OSGeo projects, conferences and code sprints that we just assumed that he was already charter members. As Steve wrote, he is a very constructive team player, so much that many of the performance gains made in recent FOSS4G benchmarking exercises in both MapServer and Mapnik can be tracked down to the great coopetition[1] spirit that Thomas (for MapServer) and Dane Springmeyer (for Mapnik) put into the benchmarking game, effectively exchanging hints and tricks to help boost the performance of each other's (competing) software. That's open source at its best. Daniel [1] Coopetition = Cooperative competition On 12-06-28 1:25 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Hi, I would like to nominate Thomas Bonfort for OSGeo Charter Member. Thomas has been a long time active supporter of the Open Source GIS movement. He developed mod_geocache which has since been merged with mapserver as mapcache, he is an active developer of mapserver and recently taken on the responsibility for the latest mapserver release in the works. Thomas has presented in various FOSS4G conferences and is constructive and a great team player. I think Thomas would make an excellent OSGeo Charter Member. Best regards, -Stephen Woodbridge ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
