<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div> :I want to introduce myself for OSGeo Community as Charter member Nominee:<br><div><br></div></div>Respected All,<br><br></div>I am Harish Kumar Solanki and I have been already working with OSGeo products and providing trainings of OSGeo product (Mainly
QGIS) and I want to be more involved in promotion of FOSS4G. My name for
charter membership has already been nominated by Ravi Kumar, Hyderabad
and
supported by Venkatesh Raghvan, Japan.<br><br>I have worked in the field of Watershed Management for 12 years in Government, and for 5 years in the field of Geo-Informatics applications in Watershed and other flagships of Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India.<br>
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</div>In 2009 I came to know the powers and developments of Open Source GIS and OSGeo products, mainly QuantumGIS and GRASS and since then I am working with Open Source GIS only.<br><br>I have conducted total 43 training programme in NIRD for Senior and Middle level officers of Government, reputed NGOs and Public representatives, and out of these programmes, till today 22 programmes were conducted on 'Use of Open Source GIS in Watershed/MGNREGS/Forests etc. of 5-6 days duration,with total <b>532 participants, 120 Training days and 2914 Training man days.</b> These programmes were purely based on OSGeo product. <br>
<br></div><div>My profile can be viewed at; <br><br><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Harryom" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Harryom</a><br><br></div><div>with more details at;<br><br><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/hksolanki" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/hksolanki</a><br>
<br>With the support of NIRD and OSGeo, my expectations for future are;<br><br>- Apart from continuing trainings at NIRD, to conduct some seminars/workshops for senior nodal officials of Government, on use of Open Source GIS in various thematic areas of Rural Development Sector, with the help of OSGeo-India and Professionals working in Open Source GIS/Data/Standards field.<br>
<br>- To make NIRD Jaipur Center as a hub of professional short and long term courses on Open Source OSGeo products of Desktop/Web utilities, Open Database (PostgreSQL) Management, GIS Applications/Customization using open Languages like Python, to provide a committed and competent cadre of Open Source GIS experts for serving Government and Corporate sector in a cost effective manner.<br>
<br>- To Translate GUI, Manuals and other related documents in Hindi and other major languages of country.<br><br>- To providing Virtual training environment to the participants.<br><br>- Promote OSGeo and its activities in India.<br>
<br><p style="margin-left:14.2pt;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></font></p><font><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">With regards</span></font></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Ravi Kumar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ravivundavalli48@yahoo.com" target="_blank">ravivundavalli48@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-size:14pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><div>Harish Solanki is one of the upcoming OSGeo evangelists.</div>
<div>He has conducted several courses of Qgis at his institute dedicated to Rural Development.</div><div>He has made the course material and the training was first of its kind in his organisation.</div><div><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:19px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif">
GIS for the rural administration is what is most important in India. </div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:19px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif">Voting for Harish Solanki can bring a dedicated FOSS GIS exponent into OSGeo's fold.</div>
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Ravi Kumar</div></font></span></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Harish Kumar Solanki, Assistant Professor<br>National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD), <br>Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India <br>Jaipur, Rajasthan, India- Pin-302006<br>
<b></b><br>Geo_Coordinates (Office): <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">26.92162 N, 75.78921 </span>E<br><br>Email- <a href="mailto:hksolanki@nird.gov.in" target="_blank">hksolanki@nird.gov.in</a>, <a href="mailto:harry.om2000@gmail.com" target="_blank">harry.om2000@gmail.com</a>, <br>
Tele-Fax-0141-2209905, Mo.- 09214446732, 09414291732<br>Website- <a href="http://www.nird.org.in" target="_blank">http://www.nird.org.in, http://watershed.rajasthan.gov.in/</a><br>LinkedIn: <a href="http://www.linkedIn.com/in/hksolanki" target="_blank">www.linkedIn.com/in/hksolanki</a><br>
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