[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Board Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan

[Harish]

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Regards
Harish from India

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 4:23 PM, nicolas bozon <nicolas.bozon at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I also strongly support this excellent nomination.
> As the instigator and advocate of the FOSS4G culture, Venka-sensei is an
> open source geospatial visionary as well as a wonderful community builder.
> I believe he would be an excellent director once again, and a great asset
> for the future of our Foundation.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Nick
>
> 2015-09-09 11:46 GMT+02:00 Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>:
>
>> I strongly support Venka's nomination for the board of directors.
>>
>> Best,
>> Angelos
>>
>>
>> On 09/08/2015 11:04 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
>>
>>> Forwarding Venkatesh Raghavan nomination to the board of directors by
>>> Sanghee Shin, Markus Neteler and Jeff McKenna.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Vasile
>>> CRO 2015
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>> Subject: Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan
>>> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 17:53:34 -0300
>>> From: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
>>> To: cro at osgeo.org <cro at osgeo.org>
>>> CC: Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org>, Sanghee Shin <shshin at gaia3d.com>,
>>> Venkatesh Raghavan <raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp>
>>>
>>> It is our pleasure to nominate Venka Raghavan
>>> (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Venkatesh_Raghavan), from Japan, for the
>>> OSGeo Board.  It is hard to put into (few) words, Venka's influence on
>>> FOSS and geo.  The 2012 winner of the Sol Katz Award, he created the
>>> term “FOSS4G” back in 2004, using it as the name of an international
>>> event in Thailand, and since then he has promoted FOSS4G all over the
>>> globe.  He was also one of the organizers of the recent FOSS4G-Asia
>>> event this past December.
>>>
>>> Venka has also been directly involved in OSGeo since its inception, in
>>> fact he was on the first OSGeo Board of Directors from 2006 to 2007.  He
>>> is also a long-time board member of the OSGeo Japan chapter.
>>>
>>> A professor at Osaka City University in Japan, Venka constantly
>>> encourages his students to leverage FOSS4G in all of their research.
>>> His influence in Asia wide reaching, being easily the most influential
>>> FOSS4G leader there.  Venka also helps organize the GIS-IDEAS Symposium
>>> every 2 years in Vietnam, which is always FOSS4G-based.
>>>
>>> Venka is enthused to be a part of the OSGeo Board again, helping a
>>> foundation that he helped form at the beginning.  We could not be more
>>> please and honoured to nominate Venka for the Board of Directors.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sanghee Shin, Markus Neteler, & Jeff McKenna
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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>> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
>> OSGeo Charter Member
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