[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Charter Member Nomination - Jeremy Morley

[Anne Ghisla]

I second Jeremy's nomination!

Anne

On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 21:07:42 +0100
Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> It is my great pleasure to nominate Jeremy Morley for OSGeo Charter
> membership. I have known and worked with Jeremy for many years now
> and his help and support was key for expanding OSGeo in the UK. He is
> the cochair of OSGIS conference series and has been the co-chair of
> the very successful FOSS4G 2013 at Nottingham.
> 
> Jeremy is Theme Leader for Geospatial Science at the Nottingham
> Geospatial Institute.  He has worked in the academic GIS sector since
> the mid-90s. Jeremy has promoted and researched Open GIS standards
> (through the OGC TC since 2000), data (UK Location Programme User
> Group) and software (hosted the “EOGEO” workshops, predecessors to
> FOSS4G, in 2000 & 2004).  He has also been actively giving training
> programs (good example is the very successful GIS Open Source Summer
> School in Girona) , workshops, talks etc. He is also leading  new
> module on our MSc GIScience called  "Geospatial Information Services"
> at  fully using OSGeoLive. This is a good example for other
> universities to follow in the future for their Master, undergraduate
> programs etc.
> 
> I am surprised that Jeremy is not already a charter member and i am
> sure not only the UK Chapter colleagues but also our Edu community
> will be happy to see him as a charter member.
> 
> Suchith 
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