[OSGeo-Announce] GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015

[Jorge Sanz]

On behalf of the GeoForAll Educator Award Selection Committee, we are
pleased to inform all that the Individual and Team Awards for the
"GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015" [1] has been
announced at the FOSS4G 2015- Europe "Open Innovation for Europe"
conference at Como, Italy on Friday  [2] .The award committee had the
very difficult task of selecting the GeoForAll Educator of the Year
out of the well deserving list of nominees.

Individual award goes to Sterling Quinn (Pennsylvania State
University, Pennsylvania, USA)  for his course on “Open Web Mapping”
and Team award for Kurt Menke (Birds Eye View) Nate Jennings
(Urbandale Spatial), Jon Van Hoesen (Green Mtn College), Rick Smith
(Texas A&M,) and Phil Davis, Delmar College (all in USA) for their
GeoAcademy development efforts.

This is an opportunity for us to thank all colleagues for their
excellent contributions to Openness in Education principles in the Geo
domain. Our congratulations to all individuals or teams who received
one or more nominations for the 2015 GeoForAll Global Educator of the
Year Award.  They all are  our stars and  "Geo for All" community
would to like to thank all educators worldwide who have made
contributions to open education efforts and being good global citizens
by helping spread the benefits of education to all.


Sincerely,

On behalf of the GeoForAll Educator Award Selection Committee

Prof. Charlie Schweik (Award Committee Chair)
Prof. Georg Gartner (President, ICA)
Jeff McKenna (President, OSGeo)
Chen Jun (President, ISPRS)
Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli (Italy)
Dr. Xinyue Ye (USA)
Dr. Luciene Delazari (Brazil)
Dr. Tuong-Thuy Vu (Malaysia)
Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)
Prof. Ivana Ivánová (Brazil)
Jeroen Ticheler (The Netherlands)
Dr. Serena Coetzee (South Africa)
Prof. Helena Mitasova (USA)
Anne Ghisla (Germany)
Patrick Hogan (USA)
Dr Suchith Anand (UK/India)



[1] http://www.osgeo.org/node/1506
[2] http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/