[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Nimalika Fernando

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 2014/08/01 23:48, Ravi Kumar wrote:
> +1 we need more and more Like Nimalika to evangelise.
+1 for Nimalika's nomination.

Venka

> She is a right choise for OSGeo charter
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> On Friday, August 1, 2014 4:26 PM, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
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> +1 from me for Nimalika Fernando's contributions for OSGeo education efforts by helping establish ICA-OSGeo Labs in Sri Lanka and helping spread education opportunities for more students.
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> Suchith
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> -----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 22:09
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> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Nimalika
>   Fernando
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> Forwarding Nimalika Fernando nomination by Anne
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> Cheers
> Jorge
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Anne Ghisla
> Date: 2014-07-31 9:36 GMT+02:00
> Subject: Nomination for Nimalika Fernando
> To: cro at osgeo.org, nimalika fernando
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> Hi Jorge,
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> It is my pleasure to nominate Nimalika Fernando [0], from Sri Lanka, for Charter membership.
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> Nimalika is attached to Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
> (SLIIT) [1] and initiated the Institute's ICA-OSGeo Lab, named OSGeoSLIIT [2,3], that strongly focuses on free and open source software.
> In March 2014 she was instrumental in organising the first FOSS4G event in Sri Lanka [4],which was a success, with 60 participants including students from several Sri Lankan universities [5].
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> Yann Chemin introduced me to Nimalika when I visited Sri Lanka early this year, and I
>   have soon been impressed by her enthusiasm and proactivity in spreading open source GIS, especially in education. I believe that her contribution in teaching is crucial to the future of OSGeo, as it connects the international experts in the field with young generation in Sri Lanka, where open source GIS can make a very positive impact.
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> Best regards,
> Anne
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> [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Nimalika
> [1] SLIIT academic staff page http://www.sliit.lk/academic-staff/
> [2] OSGeoSLIIT http://osgeolab.sliit.lk/ [3] OSGeoSLIIT inauguration in February 2014 http://www.osgeo.org/node/1430 [4] FOSS4G Sri Lanka http://foss4gsrilanka.lk [5] FOSS4G Sri Lanka summary:
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/srilanka/2014-February/000023.html
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