I support the nomination of Venkatesh Raghavan. Thank you Venka for agreeing to serve again...
Silvia On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 7:42 PM, Suchith Anand < suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote: > +1 for Venka's nomination.. Thank you Venka for agreeing to serve again . > Venka has provided us excellent leadership reaching out to everyone. His > contributions for geoeducation is an inspiration for all of us. Let us all > welcome him back to the Board . > > Best wishes, > > Suchith > > ________________________________________ > From: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Jeff McKenna > <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com> > Sent: 08 October 2017 5:21 PM > To: osgeo > Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Venkatesh Raghavan > > Forwarding nomination of Venkatesh Raghavan by Angelos Tzotsos. The > Board Nominations page has been updated: > https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2017 > > > -Jeff & Vasile > CRO 2017 Elections > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > > It is my pleasure and honor to nominate our President Venka Raghavan[1], > from Japan, for re-election for the OSGeo Board of Directors. Venka's > contributions to FOSS and FOSS4G are inspiring to our community. He is > 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. > > 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. He has > served the OSGeo community for the last 2 years with great commitment > and passion from the position of the President. > > 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 happy to be a part of the OSGeo Board again, helping the > foundation that he helped form at the beginning. So please welcome back > Venka to the Board of Directors. > > [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Venkatesh_Raghavan > > -- > Angelos Tzotsos, PhD > Charter Member, Board of Directors > Open Source Geospatial Foundation > http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee > and may contain confidential information. If you have received this > message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. > > Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this > message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the > author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the > University of Nottingham. > > This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an > attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your > computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email > communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as > permitted by UK legislation. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- ing. Silvia Franceschi Via Latemar, 22 38030 Castello di Fiemme (TN) tel: 0039 -3384501332
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