Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nomination - Angelos Tzotsos
Hi all, On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Stefano Costa st...@iosa.it wrote: Il 23/06/2012 04:57, Cameron Shorter ha scritto: I'd like to nominate Angelos Tzotsos as an OSGeo Charter member, as I believe he exemplifies many of the key qualities we look for in OSGeo Advocates. I would like to join Cameron in this nomination. [cut] I believe it is very important to facilitate the growth of new, strong communities where they are still missing. In a way, nominating Angelos is for me a way to support the activity that he and his fellow Greek OSGeo members are already carrying on, showing that OSGeo cares globally about local initiatives as much as the local communities care about global developments (again, software). I second Angelos' nomination for all the reasons expressed by Cameron and Stefano. I also welcome any surely worthwhile interaction between the growing Greek FOSS4G community and our Italian OSGeo local chapter (GFOSS.it) i.e. in the organization of a joint event, also (why not?) involving the whole Mediterranean area. Thanks, madi -- Dr. Margherita Di Leo ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nomination - Angelos Tzotsos
Il 23/06/2012 04:57, Cameron Shorter ha scritto: I'd like to nominate Angelos Tzotsos as an OSGeo Charter member, as I believe he exemplifies many of the key qualities we look for in OSGeo Advocates. I would like to join Cameron in this nomination. I met Angelos in Athens a few weeks ago and we had a long conversation, that gave me an opportunity to learn more about the B-side of his outstanding contribution to OSGeo (the A-side being software development, translations and OSGeo Live): the Greek OSGeo community. As I made already clear a few days ago, I believe it is very important to facilitate the growth of new, strong communities where they are still missing. In a way, nominating Angelos is for me a way to support the activity that he and his fellow Greek OSGeo members are already carrying on, showing that OSGeo cares globally about local initiatives as much as the local communities care about global developments (again, software). Finally, Angelos was among the first ones to show an interest in Total Open Station, the software I develop with others. Far from being led by personal excitement, I see this interest towards the world of surveying as a first step towards one of the most promising developments OSGeo may and should achieve, namely being able to provide a complete software (and hardware?) stack for surveying. Thank you all for reading this e-mail. Ciao steko ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nomination - Angelos Tzotsos
I'd like to nominate Angelos Tzotsos as an OSGeo Charter member, as I believe he exemplifies many of the key qualities we look for in OSGeo Advocates. For the last few OSGeo-Live releases, Angelos has taken responsibility for the OSGeo-Live build , then tested every application, and then worked with projects to help get them working on OSGeo-Live. He also contributes to a number of OSGeo projects, leads Greek OSGeo translations, and has presented on OSGeo topics at numerous conferences. As per his OSGeo Advocate profile [1]: /Angelos is a remote sensing expert with background in surveying engineering and software development. He is involved in numerous activities around free and open source software and has great experience in geospatial applications. His research involves object-based image analysis, machine learning, computer vision and remote sensing. He is an active advocate of OSGeo in Greece at related conferences/ ... [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#Angelos_Tzotsos -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Solutions Manager Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source http://www.lisasoft.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
