[Conference-europe] FOSS4G Europe 2017 - request for comments

[Jeff McKenna]

On 2016-08-29 6:02 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli
> <maria.brovelli at polimi.it> wrote:
>> Dear Jachym, I agree. Moreover when at ISPRS Conference Helena and I met
>> Chris Heipke, the new ISPRS President, we discuss about the few open source
>> software available for photogrammetry.
>
> Just an off-topic "fun" anecdote:
>
> .. a year before Prof Heipke started to work at IPI, University of
> Hannover [1], the doctoral student Phisan Santitamnont and myself
> started to port GRASS GIS to Linux in exactly that building :-) I was
> student of geography next door back then.
> Phisan later became professor at the Chulalongkorn University in
> Bangkok where the famous FOSS4G 2004 was hosted and so on.
>
> Cheers,
> Markus
>
> [1] IPI history: http://www.ipi.uni-hannover.de/51.html?&L=1
>
>

I had no idea that Phisan was so connected to you Markus and the GRASS 
history, wow, thank you for sharing.  As someone who was there at 
Chulalongkorn this information is very special.

-jeff