I fully agree with Suchith on the importance of education, and am very glad to see many nominations of ICA-OSGeo Labs' members. I find that having many Charter members from the education domain means that OSGeo is ready to recognise other contributions than code. This makes me think of what Debian recently did: https://www.debian.org/News/2010/20101019
Debian is maybe by design more code-oriented than OSGeo - anyway, I like our common shift to recognise more kinds of contribution as equally important. Anne On Fri, 1 Aug 2014 11:00:26 +0100 Suchith Anand <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote: > I would like to second Ionuț Iosifescu's nomination. Ionut's has been > activily contributing to OSGeo's education and research by setting up > the Open Source Geospatial Laboratory at ETH Zurich and promoting > OSGeo education efforts in Europe. > > We need more educators and academics like Ionut as charter members of > OSGeo. Though they might be not be very visible , they provide the > greatest service for our community through their dedication and > efforts in educating the new generation with the FOSS4G knowledge and > to take us to new heights for the future with their long term focus > in education. > > I had the opportunity to meet and discuss ideas with Ionut in ICC > 2013 in Dresden and earlier this year at GWF 2014 in Geneva and I > have been impressed with his work and contributions to our education > efforts. I believe Ionut will be a valuable OSGeo charter member. > > Suchith > > > -----Original Message----- > From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org > [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Sanz > Sent: 31 July 2014 17:44 To: OSGeo Discussions > Cc: CRO; Ionuț Iosifescu > Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Ionuț > Iosifescu > > Forwarding Ionut Iosifescu nomination by Vasile > > Cheers > Jorge > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Vasile Craciunescu > Date: 2014-07-30 20:28 GMT+02:00 > Subject: OSGeo Nomination: Ionuț Iosifescu > To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer <c...@osgeo.org> > Cc: Ionuț Iosifescu > > > I'd like to nominate Ionuț Iosifescu[1] for charter membership in > OSGeo. Ionuț is a senior researcher at the Institute of Cartography > and Geoinformation at ETH Zurich - Switzerland and an active advocate > of FOSS4G for many years. He contributed to projects like QGIS and > QGIS MapServer. I would also like to remember that he did some > important scientific contributions in the field of Cartographic Web > Services [2] and FOSS4G promotion for education and research by > setting up the Open Source Geospatial Laboratory at ETH Zurich[3] > (part of ICA-OSGeo network). > > Best, > Vasile > > > [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ionut > [2] http://e-collection.library.ethz.ch/eserv/eth:4541/eth-4541-02.pdf > [3] http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/index.html > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Vasile Crăciunescu > geo-spatial.org: An elegant place for sharing geoKnowledge & geoData > http://www.geo-spatial.org > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/geo-spatial > > > -- > Jorge Sanz > http://www.osgeo.org > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aghisla
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