I strongly support this nomination. Venka is the Asian soul of FOSS4G. We need a director like Venka. Cheers. Maria
---------------------------------------------------- See you at FOSS4G Seoul: http://2015.foss4g.org/ ---------------------------------------------------- Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor Politecnico di Milano ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications"; OSGeo; GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO (ITALY) Tel. +39-031-3327336 - Mob. +39-328-0023867 - fax. +39-031-3327321 e-mail1: maria.brove...@polimi.it e-mail2: prorettr...@como.polimi.it > Il giorno 08/set/2015, alle ore 17:04, Vasile Craciunescu > <vas...@geo-spatial.org> ha scritto: > > Forwarding Venkatesh Raghavan nomination to the board of directors by > Sanghee Shin, Markus Neteler and Jeff McKenna. > > Best, > Vasile > CRO 2015 > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan > Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 17:53:34 -0300 > From: Jeff McKenna <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com> > To: c...@osgeo.org <c...@osgeo.org> > CC: Markus Neteler <nete...@osgeo.org>, Sanghee Shin <shs...@gaia3d.com>, > Venkatesh Raghavan <ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> > > It is our pleasure to nominate Venka Raghavan > (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Venkatesh_Raghavan), from Japan, for the > OSGeo Board. It is hard to put into (few) words, Venka's influence on > FOSS and geo. The 2012 winner of the Sol Katz Award, he created the > term “FOSS4G” back in 2004, using it as the name of an international > event in Thailand, and since then he has promoted FOSS4G all over the > globe. He was also one of the organizers of the recent FOSS4G-Asia > event this past December. > > 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 also a long-time board member of the OSGeo Japan chapter. > > A professor at Osaka City University in Japan, Venka constantly > encourages his students to leverage FOSS4G in all of their research. > His influence in Asia wide reaching, being easily the most influential > FOSS4G leader there. Venka also helps organize the GIS-IDEAS Symposium > every 2 years in Vietnam, which is always FOSS4G-based. > > Venka is enthused to be a part of the OSGeo Board again, helping a > foundation that he helped form at the beginning. We could not be more > please and honoured to nominate Venka for the Board of Directors. > > > Sanghee Shin, Markus Neteler, & Jeff McKenna > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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