Congrats to Barend also from our side! :Stefan
_____________________________________________________________ Stefan Keller, Professor for Information Systems Geometa Lab at Institute for Software University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil (HSR) Oberseestrasse 10 CH-8640 Rapperswil (Switzerland) http://www.hsr.ch/geometalab - @geometalab --- Geometa Lab HSR is a member of ICA-OSGeo Labs initiative Forthcoming events at HSR Rapperswil: * February 16, 2018: Swiss Python Summit, www.python-summit.ch * March 16, 2018: 9. Micro Mapping Party, http://giswiki.hsr.ch/Party * April 5, 2018: GeoBeer #20 @ HSR, https://ti.to/geobeer/20 * June 29, 2018: Swiss PGDay 2018, www.pgday.ch * Visit also https://giswiki.hsr.ch/Agenda for courses in QGIS and PostGIS. 2018-02-03 13:22 GMT+01:00 Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brove...@polimi.it>: > Congratulations Barend!!!!! > > Best regards > > Maria > > > > > Pay attention to this Special Issue and see if it is of interest by you: > > http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studies > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli > Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping > Politecnico di Milano > > ISPRS WG IV/4 "Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)" > http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html, Board of Directors of > OSGeo; GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET > Advisory Board > > > UN-GGIM Academic Network Deputy Chair, UN-GGIM Italy, UN OpenGIS Initiative > (Chair of the Capacity Building WG) > > > Sol Katz Award 2015 > > > > P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy) > > Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867, maria.brove...@polimi.it > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > Da: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Suchith Anand > <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> > Inviato: sabato 3 febbraio 2018 13:17 > A: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org > Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador – Barend Köbben > > > > Dear colleagues, > > > On behalf of the GeoForAll community, it is my great pleasure to honour > Barend Köbben as our GeoAmbassador. Barend holds an MSc in Geography, > specialising in Cartography, from Utrecht University in The Netherlands. He > worked for 9 years as a Lecturer in cartography at that university and then > moved to the International Institute for Geo-Information Sciences and Earth > Observation (ITC) in 1997. The ITC is an international school providing > courses on GIS and Remote Sensing to students from all around the world, > ranging from short courses, through 18 month MSc degree courses, as well as > a PhD programmes. Since 1 January 2010, ITC is a Faculty of the University > of Twente. Barend is at present Senior Lecturer in GIS and cartographic > visualisation in the Department of Geo-Information Processing (GIP). > > > His teaching subjects include Cartographic Theory, WebCartography and > WebGIS, Geo-webservices, web application building and 3D visualization. > Outside ITC, Barend is involved in teaching short courses and workshops in > Open Source GIS & WebMapping, promoting the use of the Open Source > geospatial applications and data. The Commission on Open Source Geospatial > Technologies of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) organised a > series of short courses and workshops on Open Source GIS & Webmapping, for > which they at ITC have developed course materials and provide teaching staff > and resources.These are mostly hands-on practical workshops, intended to > introduce the possibilities of using Open Source applications for GIS and > webmapping to people who are interested in this technology, but that do not > yet have much experience in the actual practical use of OSGeo applications. > > > > Barend used a set of exercises that guide the participants in setting up a > webmapping site using OpenStreetMap data, adding their own data using the > desktop QGIS application, serving that data as a Web Map Service using > Geoserver and/or Mapserver, and finally bringing it all together on a > interactive “slippy map” website using OpenLayers. Barend is using in > general the free and open source GIS and webmapping applications from the > OSGeo LiveDVD. Barend teach and have taught these workshops and courses in > many forms: From very short (2 hours) to long (2/3 weeks), either > face-to-face or using Distance Learning technology. > > > Some examples of the Past courses & workshops that he contributed include: > > > ·Hands-on Open Source GIS & WebMapping for UN staff -- 24 & 25 November 2014 > -- Vienna (Austria) -- 2-day workshop organized especially for members of > staff of United Nations (UN) bodies and entities. > > ·Hands-on Workshop Cartography in a Web World -- 3 October 2013 -- Amsterdam > (Netherlands) -- Intro to OpenStreetmap, OpenLayers and CartoDB > > ·EuroSDR EduServ11 Open Standards & Open Source WebMapping -- 8-19 April > 2013 -- On-line course (organised by 3rd party) > > Concepts and tools for Spatial Data Visualization -- 13 December 2012 -- > Amsterdam (Netherlands) -- Intro to OpenStreetmap, OpenLayers and CartoDB > > ·Hands-on Workshop Open Source GIS & WebMapping for UN staff -- 20 & 21 > November 2012 -- Vienna (Austria) > > ·EuroSDR EduServ10 Open Standards & Open Source WebMapping -- 7-18 May 2012 > -- On-line course (organised by 3rd party) > > ·Workshop Open Source GIS & WebCartography -- 24 April 2012 -- Avignon > (France) > > ·Walk-in Workshop Open Source GIS & WebCartography -- 5th, 6th & 7th July -- > Paris (France) > > > > · YYou can also kob...@itc.nl to request a course to be organised for your > organization. > > > > Barend participate in the research activities of the departmental Research > Theme STAMP (Spatio–Temporal Analytics, Maps and Processing). > > > His main research interests are: > > > - Automated mapping in a services environment, with middleware services and > Open Web clients (using the D3 library). > > - Animated vector map services, using among others the RIMapper WMS Open > Source platform that he developed. > > - The SDIlight concept. The term SDI for Spatial Data Infrastructure may be > usually connected with (very) large regional or national spatial data > warehouses, but the principles of SDI can also be applied in more simple and > cost–effective ways. The down–to–earth approach of SDIlight provides > students and researchers with a platform for relatively simple, low–cost, > yet powerful ways of sharing data amongst various distributed offices and > institutions as well as the general public. To achieve this, he used open > standards whenever available and open source solutions where possible.Barend > have been involved in various consultancy projects in The Netherlands, > India, Iran, Italy, Malaysia, Namibia, South Africa, Thailand and Zambia. > > > > Barend is Map Editor and member of the Editorial Board of Geografie > (Journal of KNAG - Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, ISSN > 0926-3837); Charter Member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation; Member > and Publications Chair of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial > Technologies. > > > > We are proud to honour Barend Köbben as our GeoAmbassodor and we are > extremely grateful for his contributions to GeoForAll and for his selfless > contributions for expanding geoeducation opportunities for all. > > > > Best wishes, > > > Suchith Anand > > GeoForAll > > This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee > and may contain confidential information. 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