[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nominating Junyoung Choi as OSGeo Charter Member

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding Junyoung Choi nomination by Sanghee Shin.

Best regards,
Vasile
2016 OSGeo Elections CRO


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Subject: Nominating Junyoung Choi as OSGeo Charter Member
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 17:14:29 +0900
From: Sanghee Shin <shshin at gaia3d.com>
To: CRO <cro at osgeo.org>
CC: Sanghee Shin <shshin at gaia3d.com>, 최준영 <novacite at gmail.com>, 최준영 
<junyoung at lh.or.kr>

Dear CRO,
It’s my great pleasure to nominate Dr. Junyoung Choi[1] as new OSGeo 
Charter Member.
He has been actively involved in open source GIS activities including 
translation and organising conferences since 2000. As a FOSS4G Seoul LOC 
member last year, he contributed much of his time and resources to the 
success of FOSS4G Seoul. Especially he had played a key role in 
organising the first UN special session at FOSS4G Seoul.[2] With a 
result of his great efforts to promote open source GIS in his 
organisation and Korea, LH Corp[3] and OSGeo signed a MoU[4] last year 
for developing collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and 
government organisations in Open Source GIS software and data in Korea. 
And as a follow-up of this MoU, LH Corp and OSGeo Korean Chapter will 
co-organise the FOSS4G Korea 2016.[5] As a researcher, he has carried 
out many works relating smart city, big data and UN Sustainable 
Development Goals(SDGs) using open geospatial technologies.[6]

I absolutely believe Dr. Choi will bring in new perspective and passion 
to OSGeo.
Kind regards, 신상희

[1]https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/NOVACITE 
[2]http://2015.foss4g.org/united-nations-special-session/
[3]http://world.lh.or.kr/ 
[4]https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_LH_Corporation 
[5]http://www.osgeo.kr/220 
[6]http://opengeospatialdata.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40965-016-0005-0 
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Shin, Sanghee
Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company
http://www.gaia3d.com