Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan

2012-09-18 Thread Suchith Anand
Yes, this is excellent nomination for the great contribution Venka has been 
making for FOSS4G community over many years.

Suchith

From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] 
On Behalf Of Daniel Kastl
Sent: 18 September 2012 04:17
To: solkatzaw...@osgeo.org; osgeo-discuss
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan

I think there is not much more to add to what Jeff and Ravi have already said.
I also second the nominating Venkatesh Raghavan for the 2012 SolKatz Award.
Thanks to Venka there is today strong FOSS4G community in Asia (and also in 
South Osaka ;-)

Daniel

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Ravi Kumar 
ravivundavall...@yahoo.commailto:ravivundavall...@yahoo.com wrote:
I second the nominating Venkatesh Raghavan for the 2012 SolKatz Award.
I  agree with Jeff. Venka is the inspiration behind FOSS GIS sweeping across 
Asia and much of the world.
I have known him from the very First FOSS GIS conference in Asia, and he 
encouraged us resulting in the
FOSS workshop in the Geological Survey of India in 2005.

He continues to physically visit most of the places where 'FOSSGIS is in 
action', and connects to young researchers
readily.

The projects he promotes are the very building blocks of our FOSS GIS 
initiative the world over.
His contributions in FOSS GIS for Geologists, like 3-D models are unique.
In short Venka is the leading light for FOSS GIS in Asia and the world.

V.Ravi Kumar
Friend /Fellow Geologist
(Charter member of OSGeo, Ex Board Member, Joint Secy OSGeo India)
*
* Development of SISGeM-An Online System for 3D Geologic 
Modelinghttp://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.11.9970rep=rep1type=pdf
An Online System for 3D Geologic Modeling -. Tatsuya Nemoto*, Venkatesh
Raghavan**, Shinji Masumoto*, Kiyoji Shiono*. * Department of Geosciences ...


From: Jeff McKenna 
jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.commailto:jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com
To: solkatzaw...@osgeo.orgmailto:solkatzaw...@osgeo.org 
solkatzaw...@osgeo.orgmailto:solkatzaw...@osgeo.org
Cc: osgeo discuss@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 8:17 PM
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan

I have the honor of nominating Venkatesh Raghavan[1] for the 2012 Sol
Katz Award.  I would classify Venka as the builder of all things
FOSS4G.  It was Venka who created the term FOSS4G back in 2004, using
it as the name of an international event in Thailand, and since then he
has promoted Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics all around the
world.

Venka has also been directly involved in OSGeo since its inception, in
fact he was on the first OSGeo Board of Directors from 2006 to 2007.  He
is still very active on the Board mailing list, and often shares his
broad experience with the OSGeo Board members.

A professor at Osaka City University in Japan, Venka constantly
encourages his students to leverage FOSS4G in all of their research.
His students and research teams have improved FOSS software with
international character support and translations for projects such as
MapServer, GRASS, and QuantumGIS.

Venka actively travels around the world promoting FOSS4G, and works
closely with various international event committees each year for such
events as GIS-IDEAS in Vietnam, FOSS4G-Japan, and FOSS4G-India.  In 2010
Venka was awarded a Guest Professorship at the China University of
Mining and Technology in Beijing for his Outstanding contribution to
Open Source Geospatial Technologies.

As you can see his FOSS4G reach is world-wide.  Many people have been
touched by his passion.  He is a boots on the ground kind of a guy,
who is a master at connecting geospatial communities.  Many of us all
around the world have grown our careers and skills through his advice.
I believe Venka would be an excellent recipient for the Sol Katz Award.

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Venkatesh_Raghavan

-Jeff McKenna
OSGeo Board member/friend


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan

2012-09-18 Thread nicolas bozon
I also strongly support Venka's nomination.
As one of a the founding member of OSGeo, Venkatesh had, is and will always
share his passion for open source and FOSS4G.
Among his numerous contributions to OSGeo, he notably helped lots of asian
local chapters to be and grow, and participated to several OSGeo projects
that Jeff quoted. He also initiated open source software projects.
Venka is one of best OSGeo assets for software projects and ideas, but also
for human networking and community management.
He is the best OSGeo advocate i know so far.

Nick





2012/9/18 Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk

 Yes, this is excellent nomination for the great contribution Venka has
 been making for FOSS4G community over many years.

 ** **

 Suchith

 ** **

 *From:* discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
 discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Daniel Kastl
 *Sent:* 18 September 2012 04:17
 *To:* solkatzaw...@osgeo.org; osgeo-discuss
 *Subject:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan

 ** **

 I think there is not much more to add to what Jeff and Ravi have already
 said.

 I also second the nominating Venkatesh Raghavan for the 2012 SolKatz Award.
 

 Thanks to Venka there is today strong FOSS4G community in Asia (and also
 in South Osaka ;-)

 ** **

 Daniel

 ** **

 On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.com
 wrote:

 I second the nominating Venkatesh Raghavan for the 2012 SolKatz Award.

 I  agree with Jeff. Venka is the inspiration behind FOSS GIS sweeping
 across Asia and much of the world.

 I have known him from the very First FOSS GIS conference in Asia, and he
 encouraged us resulting in the 

 FOSS workshop in the Geological Survey of India in 2005.

 ** **

 He continues to physically visit most of the places where 'FOSSGIS is in
 action', and connects to young researchers

 readily. 

 ** **

 The projects he promotes are the very building blocks of our FOSS GIS
 initiative the world over. 

 His contributions in FOSS GIS for Geologists, like 3-D models are unique.
 

 In short Venka is the leading light for FOSS GIS in Asia and the world.***
 *

 ** **

 V.Ravi Kumar 

 Friend /Fellow Geologist

 (Charter member of OSGeo, Ex Board Member, Joint Secy OSGeo India) 

 **·  **
 **· **Development of SISGeM-An Online System
 for 3D Geologic 
 Modelinghttp://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.11.9970rep=rep1type=pdf
 

 An Online System for 3D Geologic Modeling -. Tatsuya Nemoto*, Venkatesh
 Raghavan**, Shinji Masumoto*, Kiyoji Shiono*. * Department of
 Geosciences ...

 ** **
 --

 *From:* Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com
 *To:* solkatzaw...@osgeo.org solkatzaw...@osgeo.org
 *Cc:* osgeo discuss@lists.osgeo.org
 *Sent:* Monday, September 17, 2012 8:17 PM
 *Subject:* [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan


 I have the honor of nominating Venkatesh Raghavan[1] for the 2012 Sol
 Katz Award.  I would classify Venka as the “builder” of all things
 FOSS4G.  It was Venka who created the term “FOSS4G” back in 2004, using
 it as the name of an international event in Thailand, and since then he
 has promoted Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics all around the
 world.

 Venka has also been directly involved in OSGeo since its inception, in
 fact he was on the first OSGeo Board of Directors from 2006 to 2007.  He
 is still very active on the Board mailing list, and often shares his
 broad experience with the OSGeo Board members.

 A professor at Osaka City University in Japan, Venka constantly
 encourages his students to leverage FOSS4G in all of their research.
 His students and research teams have improved FOSS software with
 international character support and translations for projects such as
 MapServer, GRASS, and QuantumGIS.

 Venka actively travels around the world promoting FOSS4G, and works
 closely with various international event committees each year for such
 events as GIS-IDEAS in Vietnam, FOSS4G-Japan, and FOSS4G-India.  In 2010
 Venka was awarded a Guest Professorship at the China University of
 Mining and Technology in Beijing for his “Outstanding contribution to
 Open Source Geospatial Technologies”.

 As you can see his FOSS4G reach is world-wide.  Many people have been
 touched by his passion.  He is a “boots on the ground” kind of a guy,
 who is a master at connecting geospatial communities.  Many of us all
 around the world have grown our careers and skills through his advice.
 I believe Venka would be an excellent recipient for the Sol Katz Award.

 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Venkatesh_Raghavan

 -Jeff McKenna
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan

2012-09-18 Thread Stefano Costa
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Il 18/09/2012 13:51, nicolas bozon ha scritto:
 He is the best OSGeo advocate i know so far.

Regardless of the strong merits of Venkatesh (I don't know you
personally, but I do agree with others about your exceptional
contribution to the community), I wonder if it is really OK to have a
public thumbs up session for candidates rather than leave it to the
committee to decide. Especially towards other potential candidates
(there may even be others candidates already, AFAIK, since e-mails
have to be submitted to a separate, private address and not to the
discussion list).

If this sounds over-bureaucratisation of our community standards, I
apologise in advance.

Cheers,
steko
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan

2012-09-18 Thread Bart van den Eijnden
Hi Stefano,

I share your concerns. This is the first year that this is happening, and it's 
not outlined at all in the request for nominations.

Best regards,
Bart

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On Sep 18, 2012, at 4:09 PM, Stefano Costa st...@iosa.it wrote:

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 Il 18/09/2012 13:51, nicolas bozon ha scritto:
 He is the best OSGeo advocate i know so far.
 
 Regardless of the strong merits of Venkatesh (I don't know you
 personally, but I do agree with others about your exceptional
 contribution to the community), I wonder if it is really OK to have a
 public thumbs up session for candidates rather than leave it to the
 committee to decide. Especially towards other potential candidates
 (there may even be others candidates already, AFAIK, since e-mails
 have to be submitted to a separate, private address and not to the
 discussion list).
 
 If this sounds over-bureaucratisation of our community standards, I
 apologise in advance.
 
 Cheers,
 steko
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan

2012-09-18 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hi Stefano, Bart, all,

I simply sent my nomination to solkatzaw...@osgeo.org and CC'd Discuss -
I did this on my own doing.  I don't have a blog, so my opinions are
posted through mailing lists, so I don't see an issue with posting my
thoughts here in public.  In fact I am very proud to post my nomination
for Venka publicly.

Although now it seems I was wrong.

-jeff



On 12-09-18 11:40 AM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
 Hi Stefano,
 
 I share your concerns. This is the first year that this is happening,
 and it's not outlined at all in the request for nominations.
 
 Best regards,
 Bart
 
 -- 
 Bart van den Eijnden
 OSGIS - http://osgis.nl
 
 On Sep 18, 2012, at 4:09 PM, Stefano Costa st...@iosa.it
 mailto:st...@iosa.it wrote:
 
 Il 18/09/2012 13:51, nicolas bozon ha scritto:
 He is the best OSGeo advocate i know so far.
 
 Regardless of the strong merits of Venkatesh (I don't know you
 personally, but I do agree with others about your exceptional
 contribution to the community), I wonder if it is really OK to have a
 public thumbs up session for candidates rather than leave it to the
 committee to decide. Especially towards other potential candidates
 (there may even be others candidates already, AFAIK, since e-mails
 have to be submitted to a separate, private address and not to the
 discussion list).
 
 If this sounds over-bureaucratisation of our community standards, I
 apologise in advance.
 
 Cheers,
 steko

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan

2012-09-17 Thread Jeff McKenna
I have the honor of nominating Venkatesh Raghavan[1] for the 2012 Sol
Katz Award.  I would classify Venka as the “builder” of all things
FOSS4G.  It was Venka who created the term “FOSS4G” back in 2004, using
it as the name of an international event in Thailand, and since then he
has promoted Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics all around the
world.

Venka has also been directly involved in OSGeo since its inception, in
fact he was on the first OSGeo Board of Directors from 2006 to 2007.  He
is still very active on the Board mailing list, and often shares his
broad experience with the OSGeo Board members.

A professor at Osaka City University in Japan, Venka constantly
encourages his students to leverage FOSS4G in all of their research.
His students and research teams have improved FOSS software with
international character support and translations for projects such as
MapServer, GRASS, and QuantumGIS.

Venka actively travels around the world promoting FOSS4G, and works
closely with various international event committees each year for such
events as GIS-IDEAS in Vietnam, FOSS4G-Japan, and FOSS4G-India.  In 2010
Venka was awarded a Guest Professorship at the China University of
Mining and Technology in Beijing for his “Outstanding contribution to
Open Source Geospatial Technologies”.

As you can see his FOSS4G reach is world-wide.  Many people have been
touched by his passion.  He is a “boots on the ground” kind of a guy,
who is a master at connecting geospatial communities.  Many of us all
around the world have grown our careers and skills through his advice.
I believe Venka would be an excellent recipient for the Sol Katz Award.

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Venkatesh_Raghavan

-Jeff McKenna
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan

2012-09-17 Thread Ravi Kumar
I second the nominating Venkatesh Raghavan for the 2012 SolKatz Award.
I  agree with Jeff. Venka is the inspiration behind FOSS GIS sweeping across 
Asia and much of the world.
I have known him from the very First FOSS GIS conference in Asia, and he 
encouraged us resulting in the 
FOSS workshop in the Geological Survey of India in 2005.

He continues to physically visit most of the places where 'FOSSGIS is in 
action', and connects to young researchers
readily. 

The projects he promotes are the very building blocks of our FOSS GIS 
initiative the world over. 
His contributions in FOSS GIS for Geologists, like 3-D models are unique. 
In short Venka is the leading light for FOSS GIS in Asia and the world.

V.Ravi Kumar 
Friend /Fellow Geologist

(Charter member of OSGeo, Ex Board Member, Joint Secy OSGeo India) 

* 

* Development of SISGeM-An Online System for 3D Geologic Modeling
An Online System for 3D Geologic Modeling -. Tatsuya Nemoto*, Venkatesh 
Raghavan**, Shinji Masumoto*, Kiyoji Shiono*. * Department of Geosciences ...


Ravi Kumar



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To: solkatzaw...@osgeo.org solkatzaw...@osgeo.org 
Cc: osgeo discuss@lists.osgeo.org 
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 8:17 PM
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan
 
I have the honor of nominating Venkatesh Raghavan[1] for the 2012 Sol
Katz Award.  I would classify Venka as the “builder” of all things
FOSS4G.  It was Venka who created the term “FOSS4G” back in 2004, using
it as the name of an international event in Thailand, and since then he
has promoted Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics all around the
world.

Venka has also been directly involved in OSGeo since its inception, in
fact he was on the first OSGeo Board of Directors from 2006 to 2007.  He
is still very active on the Board mailing list, and often shares his
broad experience with the OSGeo Board members.

A professor at Osaka City University in Japan, Venka constantly
encourages his students to leverage FOSS4G in all of their research.
His students and research teams have improved FOSS software with
international character support and translations for projects such as
MapServer, GRASS, and QuantumGIS.

Venka actively travels around the world promoting FOSS4G, and works
closely with various international event committees each year for such
events as GIS-IDEAS in Vietnam, FOSS4G-Japan, and FOSS4G-India.  In 2010
Venka was awarded a Guest Professorship at the China University of
Mining and Technology in Beijing for his “Outstanding contribution to
Open Source Geospatial Technologies”.

As you can see his FOSS4G reach is world-wide.  Many people have been
touched by his passion.  He is a “boots on the ground” kind of a guy,
who is a master at connecting geospatial communities.  Many of us all
around the world have grown our careers and skills through his advice.
I believe Venka would be an excellent recipient for the Sol Katz Award.

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Venkatesh_Raghavan

-Jeff McKenna
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan

2012-09-17 Thread Daniel Kastl
I think there is not much more to add to what Jeff and Ravi have already
said.
I also second the nominating Venkatesh Raghavan for the 2012 SolKatz Award.
Thanks to Venka there is today strong FOSS4G community in Asia (and also in
South Osaka ;-)

Daniel


On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.comwrote:

 I second the nominating Venkatesh Raghavan for the 2012 SolKatz Award.
 I  agree with Jeff. Venka is the inspiration behind FOSS GIS sweeping
 across Asia and much of the world.
 I have known him from the very First FOSS GIS conference in Asia, and he
 encouraged us resulting in the
 FOSS workshop in the Geological Survey of India in 2005.

 He continues to physically visit most of the places where 'FOSSGIS is in
 action', and connects to young researchers
 readily.

 The projects he promotes are the very building blocks of our FOSS GIS
 initiative the world over.
 His contributions in FOSS GIS for Geologists, like 3-D models are unique.
 In short Venka is the leading light for FOSS GIS in Asia and the world.

 V.Ravi Kumar
 Friend /Fellow Geologist
 (Charter member of OSGeo, Ex Board Member, Joint Secy OSGeo India)

-
- Development of SISGeM-An Online System for *3D* Geologic 
 *Modeling*http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.11.9970rep=rep1type=pdf
An Online System for *3D* Geologic *Modeling* -. Tatsuya Nemoto*, *
Venkatesh*
*Raghavan***, Shinji Masumoto*, Kiyoji Shiono*. * Department of
Geosciences *...*


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 *Cc:* osgeo discuss@lists.osgeo.org
 *Sent:* Monday, September 17, 2012 8:17 PM
 *Subject:* [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan

 I have the honor of nominating Venkatesh Raghavan[1] for the 2012 Sol
 Katz Award.  I would classify Venka as the “builder” of all things
 FOSS4G.  It was Venka who created the term “FOSS4G” back in 2004, using
 it as the name of an international event in Thailand, and since then he
 has promoted Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics all around the
 world.

 Venka has also been directly involved in OSGeo since its inception, in
 fact he was on the first OSGeo Board of Directors from 2006 to 2007.  He
 is still very active on the Board mailing list, and often shares his
 broad experience with the OSGeo Board members.

 A professor at Osaka City University in Japan, Venka constantly
 encourages his students to leverage FOSS4G in all of their research.
 His students and research teams have improved FOSS software with
 international character support and translations for projects such as
 MapServer, GRASS, and QuantumGIS.

 Venka actively travels around the world promoting FOSS4G, and works
 closely with various international event committees each year for such
 events as GIS-IDEAS in Vietnam, FOSS4G-Japan, and FOSS4G-India.  In 2010
 Venka was awarded a Guest Professorship at the China University of
 Mining and Technology in Beijing for his “Outstanding contribution to
 Open Source Geospatial Technologies”.

 As you can see his FOSS4G reach is world-wide.  Many people have been
 touched by his passion.  He is a “boots on the ground” kind of a guy,
 who is a master at connecting geospatial communities.  Many of us all
 around the world have grown our careers and skills through his advice.
 I believe Venka would be an excellent recipient for the Sol Katz Award.

 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Venkatesh_Raghavan

 -Jeff McKenna
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