[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Peter Löwe

[Margherita Di Leo]

Hi Anne, all,

I second Peter's nomination as charter member. I've met him at GRASS
Community Sprint 2011 and I think he's a natural OSGeo ambassador.

Thanks,
Margherita

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Anne Ghisla <a.ghisla at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I'd like to nominate Peter Löwe [0] for OSGeo Charter Membership.
> He is active in Free and Open Source GIS development for more than a
> decade, specifically in the field of remote sensing, but also on rule
> based systems, crisis management, high performance computation...
>
> He collaborated with FOSSGIS.de (he has been its very first
> non-founding member), Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam GFZ, the
> South African Metereological Service (where he successfully introduced
> his team to GRASS GIS), Geomancers.net and RapidEye AG among others
> [1].
> He wrote several GRASS modules, available in Addons [2], and obtained
> RapidEye data for i.atcorr module [3], been a developer of the GISIX
> live-linux DVD [4]. Moreover, he won several research prizes with FOSS
> GIS work [see details at 0,1]
>
> I met Peter at FOSS4G 2010 in Barcelona, and worked with him during
> GRASS Community Sprint 2011 in Prague. He has been so far an effective
> ambassador of OSGeo in corporate/academic environment, and he would
> benefit from the official recognition of OSGeo community to achieve
> further objectives.
>
> [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Peter_Loewe
> [1] http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterloewe
> [2] http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_AddOns
> [3]
> http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/44358/grass/trunk/imagery/i.atcorr
> [4]
>
> http://www.gisdevelopment.net/proceedings/fossgrass/papers/GISIX%20-%20a%20live%20Linux%20platform%20for%20FOSS%20GIS.pdf(PDF file)
>
> Best regards,
> Anne
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Dr. Margherita Di Leo
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