+1 we need more and more Like Nimalika to evangelise.
She is a right choise for OSGeo charter
On Friday, August 1, 2014 4:26 PM, Suchith Anand
<suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
+1 from me for Nimalika Fernando's contributions for OSGeo education efforts by
helping establish ICA-OSGeo Labs in Sri Lanka and helping spread education
opportunities for more students.
Suchith
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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Nimalika
Fernando
Forwarding Nimalika Fernando nomination by Anne
Cheers
Jorge
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From: Anne Ghisla
Date: 2014-07-31 9:36 GMT+02:00
Subject: Nomination for Nimalika Fernando
To: c...@osgeo.org, nimalika fernando
Hi Jorge,
It is my pleasure to nominate Nimalika Fernando [0], from Sri Lanka, for
Charter membership.
Nimalika is attached to Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
(SLIIT) [1] and initiated the Institute's ICA-OSGeo Lab, named OSGeoSLIIT
[2,3], that strongly focuses on free and open source software.
In March 2014 she was instrumental in organising the first FOSS4G event in Sri
Lanka [4],which was a success, with 60 participants including students from
several Sri Lankan universities [5].
Yann Chemin introduced me to Nimalika when I visited Sri Lanka early this year,
and I
have soon been impressed by her enthusiasm and proactivity in spreading open
source GIS, especially in education. I believe that her contribution in
teaching is crucial to the future of OSGeo, as it connects the international
experts in the field with young generation in Sri Lanka, where open source GIS
can make a very positive impact.
Best regards,
Anne
[0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Nimalika
[1] SLIIT academic staff page http://www.sliit.lk/academic-staff/
[2] OSGeoSLIIT http://osgeolab.sliit.lk/ [3] OSGeoSLIIT inauguration in
February 2014 http://www.osgeo.org/node/1430 [4] FOSS4G Sri Lanka
http://foss4gsrilanka.lk [5] FOSS4G Sri Lanka summary:
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/srilanka/2014-February/000023.html
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Jorge Sanz
http://www.osgeo.org
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz
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