[OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Pekka Sarkola

Kari Salovaara kari.salovaara at pp1.inet.fi
Tue Jul 16 02:04:00 PDT 2013


+1

Pekka is maybe the most active person in Finnish FOSS GIS community 
(and  get things done)

Kari

On 16.07.2013 11:50, Ari Jolma wrote:
> I would like to nominate Pekka as an OSGeo Charter Member.
>
> Name: Pekka Sarkola
> Contact email: pekka.sarkola at gispo.fi
>
> Pekka has been working with geospatial since mid-90's. He is a well known
> person in the Finnish GIS community. Pekka participated in FOSS4G in
> Denver in September 2011, and he has since been working actively to 
> expand
> and build the Finnish OSGeo community. Pekka would be the third Finnish
> OSGeo charter member.
>
> Pekka was the main force behind the Finnish application for FOSS4G 
> 2013 (which was
> received well but lost in the final vote against Nottingham). Pekka 
> has organised
> two FOSS4G meetings in Finland [1]. He is an active member in the 
> Finnish chapters of
> OpenKnowledge Foundation and OpenStreetMap. He was responsible of
> the Open Geodata stream in the first OKFestival in Helsinki 2012 [2]. 
> Pekka is a
> member of the organizing committee of OGRS 2014 [3].
>
> Pekka's company, Gispo Oy, [4] helps customers to benefit from FOSS4G 
> software
> and open geospatial datasets. Pekka writes regularly a blog in Finnish 
> [5] and
> tweets in English and Finnish [6]. Pekka is also guest lecturer in the 
> Aalto
> University.
>
> Pekka is a great advocate for FOSS4G software in Finland and overseas. 
> He is
> eager to help many users to benefit from open source and open data 
> solutions in
> various industries. His professionalism and business knowledge is 
> beneficial to the
> OSGeo community.
>
> [1] http://www.gispo.fi/alpo-2013
> [2] http://okfestival.org/open-geodata/
> [3] http://2014.ogrs-community.org/index.html
> [4] http://www.gispo.fi/
> [5] http://paikkatieto.com/
> [6] https://twitter.com/posiki
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ari Jolma
> OSGeo Charter Member
> Emeritus OSGeo Board Member
>
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Kari Salovaara
Hanko, Finland

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