<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear Jody,<br><br>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Thai FOSS4G community has been in existence since 2004<br>
and is vibrant and growing. Both the OSGeo.TH and the Thai QGIS community,<br>
(over 2000 members) is active and growing.<br></span>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>
Our present charter members from Thailand and the ones proposed this years are
leading<br>
the growth and spread of OSGeo/FOSS4G in Thailand. Anujit, Kampanart, Sittichai
(in alphabetical<br>
order), and henceforth referred to as the "Naresuan Univeristy Team",
are leading this tremendous <br>
effort with commitment and vigor.<br></span>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>
The "Naresuan Team" is active in developing curriculum for
teaching and research using FOSS4G <br>
tools such as QGIS, GeoServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, GRASS-GIS and ZOO-Project.<br></span>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>
Kampanart, is involved in teaching spatial analysis and geospatial programming<br>
using QGIS and Python as well as propriety GIS tools. Kampanart do many
research/project based on Open Source Software for Thai government (Ministry of
natural Resources and Environment, National Institute for Emergency Medicine
etc.) <br></span>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>
Anujit, is teaching Remote Sensing, GIS application and disaster mitigation and
using QGIS and recently R-Statistical package. Also do research works and has
friendly relations with any others Thailand geo-informatics instructors, thus
he can make any more linkage collaboration for OSGeo community to any
south-east asia research groups. <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/images/2/2f/Open_source_related_act.pdf" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/images/<wbr>2/2f/Open_source_related_act.<wbr>pdf</a></span>
</p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>
The "Naresuan Team" has also been instrumental in developing
educational material<br>
(text books in Thai Language) for Open Source Spatial database (<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305062475_xeksarprakxbkarsxnraywichakarcadkarthankhxmullaeathankhxmulphumisarsnthes_104333" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/<wbr>publication/305062475_<wbr>xeksarprakxbkarsxnraywichakarc<wbr>adkarthankhxmullaeathankhxmulp<wbr>humisarsnthes_104333</a>
)and are presently <br>
developing a text book for Web and Mobile-GIS undergraduate/post-graduate
teachings. <br></span>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>
They organize training and workshops using OSGeo software and Jeff McKenna<br>
was one of the early visitor invited by the "Naresuan Team" to
conduct a very<br>
successful MapServer workshop. Venka, also had the privilege of
presenting at <br>
workshops organized by "Naresuan Team". The most recent one was held
under <br>
the auspices OSGeo.TH in August, 2017.<br></span>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>
Apart for teaching, Kamparnart and Anujit are implementing several funded<br>
projects for environmental management (mangroves), disaster mitigation<br>
(flood, landslides, medical emergency system) and environmental monitoring <br>
(weather, in-door sensor for poultry farming etc.). They extensively and
exclusively<br>
use OSGeo tools for developing and deploying geospatial solutions as part of<br>
these projects.<br></span>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>
The "Naresuan Team" is also recently involved in Open Hardware and
IoT<br>
applications.<br></span>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>
Mr. Chingchai, a post-graduate student groomed by the Naresuan Team<br>
successfully participated in OSGeo GSoC 2016 and Dr. Sittichai is<br>
a mentor OSGeo GSoC 2017. So, the "Naresuan Team" is contributing <br>
code to OSGeo.<br></span>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>
As Charter Members who have either nominated or seconded the<br>
candidature of Anujit and Kamparnart, it our pleasure to provide<br>
these additional details about their individual contributions as well<br>
as team efforts.<br><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Best regards<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Sittichai and Venka</span><br></p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 1:42 AM, Jody Garnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Can I ask the people who have seconded this nomination to provide information on what positive attribute Dr. Anujit Vansarochana displays in the our community to be considered as a charter member.</div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">For reference here is the <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#Positive_Attributes" target="_blank">positive attributes</a> list from the membership process we are following:</div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><blockquote style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><i>Recommended membership selection criteria include:</i></blockquote><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>Members should believe in the general goals of the Foundation. To support and promote the use of free and open source geospatial software, education and data in a collaborative manner.</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>Previous participation in or support of OSGeo activities</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>The person should already have made a contribution to free and open source geospatial software, education or open data.</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>The person should be willing to put in time and effort on the Foundation, perhaps joining committee(s), or volunteering in some other way that gets the Foundation going.</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>Members should be prepared to work constructively and positively towards the goals of the Foundation. Good teamwork skills are an asset.</i></li></ul></div><blockquote style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><i>Membership nominations should strive to promote diversity:</i></blockquote><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>Nominate members representing a diversity of geographic regions, diversity of projects, diversity of programming languages.</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>Nominate members representing and diversity of interests (e.g., corporate, hobbyist, educational, scientific).</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>Nominate members representing a diversity of humanity including gender and race </i></li></ul></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">This is a reference to my own ignorance of Dr. Anujit Vansarochana activities and no slight is intended or implied. I have tried to search the discussion email list, geoforall email list and osgeo wiki to learn more.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-5224577496993316222m_684596947631660767gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="m_-5224577496993316222h5">
<br></div></div></div></blockquote></div>-- <br><div class="m_-5224577496993316222gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">Asst. Prof. Dr. Sittichai Choosumrong</b></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">-------------------------</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">Ph.D (Creative Cities): Osaka City University </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">Lecturer in Spatial DBMS, Internet and Mobile GIS Mapping</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"> based on FOSS4G<br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">Dept. of Natural Resources & Environment;</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">Faculty of Agriculture Natural Resources and Environment, Naresuan University, 65000</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">Office: +66 55 96 2753</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">Fax: +66 55 96 2750</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">Mobile: +66 91 767 2963</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">OSGeo Charter member 2014, Thailand. <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sittichai_choosumrong" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/<wbr>Sittichai_choosumrong </a></span><br></font></span></div></span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)">■□■□■□■□■□■□■□■□■</span></span></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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