Suchith, many thanks! I agree with Sergio. Your name has to be the first of the
list!!
A warm hug to All of You!
Waiting for you in Como, July 2015!
Maria
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> Il giorno 16/dic/2014, alle ore 15:54, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
> <sergio.acostayl...@mtop.gub.uy> ha scritto:
>
> Thank you Suchith for your kind words. I think you best deserve to be
> included in the list as the greatest Geo4all hero!
> Happy new year for all the members of this wonderful network.
>
> Sergio Acosta y Lara
> Sección Sistemas de Información Geográfica
> Dirección Nacional de Topografía
> Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
> URUGUAY
> De: ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
> <ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> en nombre de Venkatesh Raghavan
> <ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp>
> Enviado: martes, 16 de diciembre de 2014 7:24
> Para: ICA-OSGeo labs; Discuss OSGeo
> Asunto: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" Heros 2014
>
> Congratulations to all the wonderful people listed by Suchith
> for their Heroic efforts!!
>
> They will continue to inspire us in the coming years.
>
> Best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year.
>
> Venka
>
>
>
>> On 2014/12/16 19:17, Suchith Anand wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> When i look back at 2014 and see the amazing work that all of you have done
>> for , it gives me great inspiration for working hard for this mission in
>> 2015 and each and every one of you who have been contributing your efforts
>> are "Geo for All" Heros. But i thought it will be appropriate to
>> acknowledge some of our amazing people whose work and efforts has inspired
>> all of us a lot.
>>
>> Sergio Acosta y Lara and colleagues at gvSIG Batoví initiative in Uruguay
>> who have done amazing contribution for widening high quality education
>> opportunities for students all across Uruguay through the wider CEIBAL
>> Initiative http://www.ceibal.org.uy/ by developing excellent educational
>> tools that enables primary and secondary education students to understand
>> space, to easily interpret maps and to learn free technologies. The video
>> link (with English translation) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwN9K07XPo
>> speaks for itself the contribution of CEIBAL and i hope this will inspire
>> other developing and poor countries to invest in free and open technologies
>> in primary and secondary school education, so that the students (esp. from
>> poor backgrounds) will also ge
>>
>> t acces
>> s to high quality educational resources and opportunities.
>> Professor Maria Brovelli who is respected by everyone in the FOSS4G
>> community for not only her great research contributions but also for her
>> kindness and compassion. Her background support and work on many initiatives
>> from NASA Worldwind Europa Challenge to various Summer Schools and now
>> working hard to host the FOSS4G-Europe in 2015, clearly shows her commitment
>> for widening education opportunities in Geospatial for everyone.
>>
>> Jason Sadler from University of Southampton has worked hard to develop and
>> maintain our Geo for All http://www.geoforall.org website. We all are
>> grateful for his and other colleagues at Southampton's efforts and
>> contributions for this. Also Luca Delucchi and Vaclav Petras who helped
>> create the dynamic map for Geo for All labs.
>>
>> Lluis Vicens of SIGTE , University of Girona is the driving force behind the
>> very successful Open Source GIS Summer School Initiative
>> http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2014/
>> which is now in its fifth year. By making available all the teaching
>> materials for the Summer School to everyone through the website , its impact
>> is not only for students who attend the summer school but for everyone.
>>
>> Dr Rafael Moreno of University of Colarado, Denver, USA who has not only the
>> driving force for the FOSS4G lab at University of Colarado
>> http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/ but also been working hard to provide
>> geo education opportunities to more staff and students in other countries.
>> So big thank you for all of you for your contributions to Open Education
>> and your work and contributions will keep inspiring all of us for the
>> future. The fundamental principle of "Geo for All" is to enable education
>> opportunities for everyone and Openness in Education (Free and Open
>> software, open standards, open data, open access to research publications)
>> provide great opportunities for widening education opportunities.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Suchith
>>
>>
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