[OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Tuong Thuy VU

[TUONG THUY VU]

Dear friends,
Many thanks to Venka and Suchith for nomination and support. 
I am Vietnamese but have been doing my research works around the world from Thailand, Japan to Sweden and now Malaysia. Though it is to introduce myself, I'd like to update everyone the progressing OSGEO activities in Malaysia.

I started engaging with Open-Source since 2000 during my postgrad studies to support my research works and partly due to my hobby. My research is more to remote sensing techniques and applications and I have been developing numerous tools using different computer languages, currently I am developing on top of Orfeo Toolbox. I also developing teaching material using QGIS and Orfeo Toolbox for GIS and remote sensing modules at our MSc teaching level.
What I have done along my career, please refer to my profile on linkedin.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tuongthuy-vu/15/177/467
and
http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Science/People/tuongthuy.vu


Joining Uni. of Nottingham based in Malaysia, I established my OSGEO research group with strong support from Nottingham Geospatial Institute in late 2011. In Malaysia, I am participating and delivering talks on OSGEO in different meetings and conferences, providing training for industry. I've learnt that there are a small number of OSGEO enthusiasts here and all is working hard to enhance the public awareness so that I believe the number is growing.
In mid-2012, together with colleagues at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), we established our local chapter. We were very happy to have Manning (Philippines) and Franz-Josef (Germany) present and lending their support.
UTM is also setting up its OSGEO lab. There's a very good sign here, the government is planning to deploy Linux and OSGEO for managing geospatial data at local authorities. 

I'd like to thank everyone in our community, you have been significantly contributing to build up a strong foundation for OSGEO, which helps me a lot in making it happens here in Malaysia.
Feel free to drop me a line for any further discussion.

Cheers,
Thuy

Dr. Tuong Thuy Vu, MIEEE
Associate Professor
Open-source Geospatial Research Lab
School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus
Tel. 603 8924 8757
http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/index.aspx

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From: Suchith Anand [Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk]
Sent: 12 July 2013 15:33
To: Venkatesh Raghavan; OSGeo Discussions; OSGeo Chief Returning Officer; TUONG THUY VU
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Tuong Thuy VU

I would like to second this nomination.

Thuy is also actively contributing to our education efforts. He established and lead the first Open Source Geospatial Lab in Malaysia at UNMC and is now supporting  colleagues in other universities in Malaysia and across Asia in establishing Open Source Geospatial labs in their universities.

Suchith
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From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Venkatesh Raghavan [raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp]
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 8:27 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions; OSGeo Chief Returning Officer; Tuongthuy.Vu at nottingham.edu.my
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Tuong Thuy VU

My pleasure to nominate Tuong Thuy VU as OSGeo Charter Member

Name: Tuong Thuy VU
Contact email: Tuongthuy.Vu AT nottingham.edu.my

Tuong Thuy VU has been leading FOSS4G and OSGeo activities in
Malaysia. He is one of the the main organizer of FOSS4G events
in  Malaysia and is also a key person in strengthening network in
Vietnam and Southeast Asia [1]. He is a very active user, trainer
and promoter OSGeo Source and  Open Data at several forums
and also in his teaching and research projects .

You can know a bit more about Tuong Thuy VU at
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/people/tuongthuy.vu

Best,
Venka

[1] http://foss4g-sea.org/
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