[Board] Report on OSGeo-Asia

[Gérald Fenoy]

Hi Jeff,
thanks a lot for writing such an email.

My two cents about China experience; I think that some big issue are caused by the lack of access to some kind of informations and/or network massively used on web pages all over the internet. Maybe better to review our way to communicate rather than be separated from numerous users which need informations.

As an OpenSource project ZOO-Project is on the way to do such a thing .... and keep in touch with this part of the world.

Le 30 nov. 2010 à 13:25, Jeff McKenna a écrit :

> Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan ("Venka")
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> I can't write a report on OSGeo in Asia without singling out Venka.  He deserves so much credit for bringing OSGeo communities together.  Each year he leads the charge to find funding to bring OSGeo representatives to Asia, and he knows the value of introducing international guests to the local community - face to face is so important, or as he says, "boots on the ground".  All of a sudden a local developer isn't shy about posting a trac ticket, or a developer answering a trac ticket can put a a face to the ticket reporter - priceless.
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> I must also mention that during my visit to Beijing, Venka was awarded Guest Professorship at the China University of Mining and Technology for his “Outstanding contribution to Open Source Geospatial Technologies” and I had the privilege of attending the event when Venka received this award. Earlier in 2010, Venka was also recognized as “Excellent Foreign Teacher” by the Ministry of Education, China. Even as I submit this report, I know that Venka will be off to Hanoi, Vietnam for his next promotion of OSGeo at the GIS-IDEAS-2010 (http://wgrass.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/gisideas10/) and I see a lot many papers related to FOSS4G being presented there. In January 2010, Venka will team with Arnulf, Markus and Maria Brovelli to promote OSGeo at the Geospatial World Forum in India (http://www.geospatialworldforum.org/).
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> Venka was one of initial Board of Directors of OSGeo, from 2006 to 2007, but I feel that he needs to be more visible in the OSGeo structure again, and I hope that we can consider him for any upcoming important roles in OSGeo.
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> Thanks for reading my little report. 

From my level, I would like to second this part of your mail and insisting :)

Many thanks to Jeff, you spent more time to write this email that we need to read it.

Best,

Gérald Fenoy
gerald.fenoy at geolabs.fr
Just A ZOO Tribe Member
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