[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Ionuț Iosifescu

[Anne Ghisla]

I fully agree with Suchith on the importance of education, and am very
glad to see many nominations of ICA-OSGeo Labs' members.
 
I find that having many Charter members from the education domain means
that OSGeo is ready to recognise other contributions than code. This
makes me think of what Debian recently did:
https://www.debian.org/News/2010/20101019

Debian is maybe by design more code-oriented than OSGeo - anyway, I
like our common shift to recognise more kinds of contribution as
equally important.

Anne

On Fri, 1 Aug 2014 11:00:26 +0100
Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> I would like to second Ionuț Iosifescu's nomination. Ionut's has been
> activily contributing to OSGeo's education and research by setting up
> the Open Source Geospatial Laboratory at ETH Zurich and promoting
> OSGeo education efforts in Europe. 
> 
> We need more educators and academics like Ionut as charter members of
> OSGeo. Though they might be not be very visible  , they provide the
> greatest service for our community through their dedication and
> efforts in educating the new generation with the FOSS4G knowledge and
> to take us to new heights for the future with their long term focus
> in education.
> 
> I had the opportunity to meet and discuss ideas with Ionut in ICC
> 2013 in Dresden and earlier this year at GWF 2014 in Geneva and  I
> have been impressed with his work and contributions to our education
> efforts.  I believe Ionut will be a valuable OSGeo charter member.
> 
> Suchith
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Sanz
> Sent: 31 July 2014 17:44 To: OSGeo Discussions
> Cc: CRO; Ionuț Iosifescu
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Ionuț
> Iosifescu
> 
> Forwarding Ionut Iosifescu nomination by Vasile
> 
> Cheers
> Jorge
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Vasile Craciunescu
> Date: 2014-07-30 20:28 GMT+02:00
> Subject: OSGeo Nomination: Ionuț Iosifescu
> To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer <cro at osgeo.org>
> Cc: Ionuț Iosifescu
> 
> 
> I'd like to nominate Ionuț Iosifescu[1] for charter membership in
> OSGeo. Ionuț is a senior researcher at the Institute of Cartography
> and Geoinformation at ETH Zurich - Switzerland and an active advocate
> of FOSS4G for many years. He contributed to projects like QGIS and
> QGIS MapServer. I would also like to remember that he did some
> important scientific contributions in the field of Cartographic Web
> Services [2] and FOSS4G promotion for education and research by
> setting up the Open Source Geospatial Laboratory at ETH Zurich[3]
> (part of ICA-OSGeo network).
> 
> Best,
> Vasile
> 
> 
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ionut
> [2] http://e-collection.library.ethz.ch/eserv/eth:4541/eth-4541-02.pdf
> [3] http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/index.html
> 
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