[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Sanghee Shin

2011-11-08 Thread Seven (aka Arnulf)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Folks, I have the pleasure of nominating Mr. Sanghee Shin [1] [2] from Korea as new OSGeo Charter Member. Sanghee has come a long way with Open Source, first using GRASS during his studies, later coming back to image processing and now using,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Translation to Indian languages Feed back please

2011-11-08 Thread Ravi Kumar
Hi Alex, The emphasis is on making the semi-english-literate (speak but not read) to actually use FOSS4G tools such that it can be used for village administration. In India there may not be many users if we actually Transliterate (English to English but Indic script) OSGeo Live DVD etc. Ravi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Sanghee Shin

2011-11-08 Thread Gérald Fenoy
Arnulf, this is really good idea ! Thanks a lot for this nomination. I had the pleasure to meet Sanghee Shin this week at FOSS4G Japan in Tokyo and to listen his talk. Now, I know more about his massive contribution to promote OSGeo in Korea. Hence, I am pleased to second this nomination.

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Luca Delucchi

2011-11-08 Thread Anne Ghisla
Dear all, I would like to nominate Luca Delucchi [0] as Charter Member. For years, he's an active promoter of open source GIS and open data. He is power user, contributor and translator for GRASS GIS, QGIS, Mapnik, and webGIS developer using open source tools. He is one of the major

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Yoicihi Kayama

2011-11-08 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Dear All, It gives me great please to nominate Yoicihi Kayama as Charter Member. He is one of the most active members of OSGeo.JP. He has participated/contributed immensely to the local/international FOSS4G Community. Some of his major contributions are as below; 1) Japanese translation of QGIS

Re: AW: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSM2NetworkDataset Version 1.1 available

2011-11-08 Thread G. Allegri
Thanks for your work Ann. I feel it's an important contribution to the interoperability of open and proprietary technologies and data flows. I'm already downloading your thesis ;) giovanni 2011/11/8 Ann Hitchcock a.hitchc...@52north.org No Problem! ** ** Best regards, Ann

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Xianfeng Song

2011-11-08 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2011/11/09 3:04, Gérald Fenoy wrote: Dear comrades, I'm pleased to nominate Xianfeng Song for his implication in many ways into OSGeo that you know but I will briefly remind here. First, he invest many time and efforts in spreading knowledge and promoting OSGeo in the lessons he give at

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Xianfeng Song

2011-11-08 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2011/11/09 3:04, Gérald Fenoy wrote: Dear comrades, I'm pleased to nominate Xianfeng Song for his implication in many ways into OSGeo that you know but I will briefly remind here. First, he invest many time and efforts in spreading knowledge and promoting OSGeo in the lessons he give at

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Yoicihi Kayama

2011-11-08 Thread Toru Mori (森 亮)
Dear All, I'm also pleased to second his nomination. Yoichi Kayama is definitely one of the key persons in Japanese OSGeo community. Without his long term dedication to the local community, Japan Chapter would not be active as it is today. with regards, Toru Mori Representative, OSGeo Japan

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Fernando Quadro

2011-11-08 Thread Felipe Costa
Hello, Since brazilian community was cited as an active group, and I'm not seeing till this moment any indication from Brazil, I'll start nominating Fernando Quadro. He's very active in promoting OSGeo technologies here in Brazil and is great guy to work with. I have the pleasure to collaborate

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nominations

2011-11-08 Thread Shin, Sanghee
Dear All, I'm Sanghee Shin from Korea. Most of all, I'm very happy to be nominated as an OSGeo Charter Member by Arnulf. If I would be elected as an Charter Member, that would be my honor. By the way, I would like to nominate 2 persons from Korea as OSGeo Charter Members. First, I want to