[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Nikos Alexandris

[Margherita Di Leo]

I second this nomination!


On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas <jsanz at osgeo.org>
wrote:

> Forwarding Nikos Alexnadris nomination by Dimitris Kotzinos.
>
> Cheers
> Jorge
>
>
> -------- Mensaje reenviado --------
> Asunto: Nomination for Nikos Alexandris
> Fecha: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 04:35:11 +0200 (CEST)
> De: Dimitris Kotzinos
> Para: cro at osgeo.org >> OSGeo Chief Returning Officer <cro at osgeo.org>
> CC: jsanz at osgeo.org, Nick Ves
>
> Dear CRO and all,
>
> we would like to nominate Dr. Nikos Alexandris for becoming an OSGEO
> Charter Member.
>
> Nikos has been a long advocate of Open Source GIS and OSGEO [1] and has
> been one very active person in supporting both since 2007 (and we know
> him since). He actually sees OSGEO as the means to actively cultivating
> a technologically advanced and socially aware geospatial way of thinking
> and acting.
> He has been actively involved in pushing Open Source GIS and OSGEO in
> both academic and industry-oriented settings and his passion has taken
> him recently from Greece up to India (TERI and Kurukshetra Universities)
> in order to promote specifically GRASS-GIS. He has participated in
> community sprints for GRASS-GIS, in the translation of the OSGEO web
> site to Greek and has been very active in the OSGEO Greek Chapter and
> the Greek Open Source community in general, especially by having
> participated in numerous events in Greece
> about Open Source in general and Open Source GIS specifically and has
> been interviewed about this for magazines. You can find more about Nikos
> at [2].
> We think that Nikos gathers all the required qualities specified in the
> OSGEO nomination pages for a charter member.
>
> Dimitris, as the founder of the Greek OSGEO Chapter, considers Nikos a
> valuable member
> of the OSGEO Greek Chapter and OSGEO in general and as OSGEO Charter
> Members we both think that Nikos' passion and dynamism will bring a lot
> of energy to OSGEO and that he carries all the necessary qualities to
> serve OSGEO from many different positions.
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Nikos_Alexandris
> [2] http://nikosalexandris.net/xpress/cv/
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Nikos Ves & Dimitris Kotzinos
> OSGEO Charter Members
>
>
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Best regards,

Dr. Margherita DI LEO
Scientific / technical project officer

European Commission - DG JRC
Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES)
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