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

[Suchith Anand]

Thanks Charlie for this excellent nomination. I am happy to second this nomination of Andy Anderson as OSGeo Charter Member.

Best wishes,

Suchith

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From: Discuss [discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Vasile Craciunescu [vasile at geo-spatial.org]
Sent: 12 July 2016 4:16 PM
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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nominating Andy Anderson as OSGeo Charter Member

Forwarding Andy Anderson nomination by Charlie Schweik.

Best regards,
Vasile
2016 OSGeo Elections CRO


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Subject:        Nominating Andy Anderson as OSGeo Charter Member
Date:   Tue, 12 Jul 2016 08:36:29 -0500
From:   Charlie Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>
To:     Vasile Crăciunescu <cro at osgeo.org>, OSGeo Discussions
<discuss at lists.osgeo.org>



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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