[OSGeo-Discuss] Nominating Andy Anderson as OSGeo Charter Member

[Charlie Schweik]

Hi,

I'd like to nominate Dr. Andy Anderson of Amherst College, Amherst USA for
OSGeo Charter Member.

I have asked him about being nominated, and he confirmed he was interested.

I've worked with Andy for 15 years, and he has become an open source
geospatial technology evangelist here in Western Massachusetts over the
last decade. Moreover, he is a knowledge-base technically, and supports
many students in our "5 college" area in open source geospatial
technologies. Together, we offered a WebGIS course to "five college"
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst College, Smith College, Mt Holyoke
College and Hampshire College) network students last spring. He's an active
member of the FOSS4G 2017 Boston LOC, and is active on our GeoForAll node
in Western Massachusetts, USA [1].

FYI, below is the information Andy provides on his OSGeo Wiki entry [2]:

"I have been using open-source software since the early 1980s, and
specifically FOSS4G since 2007. I currently teach occasional classes with
FOSS4G and write documentation for using FOSS4G in my position as Academic
Technology Specialist for Mathematical and Spatial Data Analysis at Amherst
College, and my role as Adjunct Assistant Professor in Environmental
Conservation at the University of Massachusetts. I am also serving on the
Boston Local Organizing Committee for FOSS4G 2017. I have been programming
since the mid-1970s, primarily for scientific applications but also
including open-source software, beginning with Fortran and C and continuing
most recently with JavaScript, Python, R, and SQL."

In short, Andy is the ultimate professional. He puts his heart and soul
into projects he takes on, and is technically brilliant. He's a passionate
contributor who does high-quality and thorough work. He is already -- and
will be -- a real contributor to OSGeo as a Charter Member.

Cheers,

Charlie Schweik

[1] http://www.umass.edu/opensource/
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Andy_Anderson


-- 
Charlie Schweik

Professor, Department of Environmental Conservation &
Interim Director of the School of Public Policy,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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