[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Venkatesh Raghavan

[Silvia Franceschi]

I support the nomination of Venkatesh Raghavan.
Thank you Venka for agreeing to serve again...

Silvia


On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 7:42 PM, Suchith Anand <
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> +1 for Venka's nomination.. Thank you Venka for agreeing to serve again .
> Venka has provided us excellent leadership reaching out to everyone. His
> contributions for geoeducation is an inspiration for all of us. Let us all
> welcome him back to the Board .
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
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> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Venkatesh Raghavan
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> Forwarding nomination of Venkatesh Raghavan by Angelos Tzotsos. The
> Board Nominations page has been updated:
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2017
>
>
> -Jeff & Vasile
> CRO 2017 Elections
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>
> It is my pleasure and honor to nominate our President Venka Raghavan[1],
> from Japan, for re-election for the OSGeo Board of Directors. Venka's
> contributions to FOSS and FOSS4G are inspiring to our community. He is
> the 2012 winner of the Sol Katz Award, he created the term “FOSS4G” back
> in 2004, using it as the name of an international event in Thailand, and
> since then he has promoted FOSS4G all over the globe.
>
> Venka has also been directly involved in OSGeo since its inception, in
> fact he was on the first OSGeo Board of Directors from 2006 to 2007. He
> is also a long-time board member of the OSGeo Japan chapter. He has
> served the OSGeo community for the last 2 years with great commitment
> and passion from the position of the President.
>
> A professor at Osaka City University in Japan, Venka constantly
> encourages his students to leverage FOSS4G in all of their research. His
> influence in Asia wide reaching, being easily the most influential
> FOSS4G leader there. Venka also helps organize the GIS-IDEAS Symposium
> every 2 years in Vietnam, which is always FOSS4G-based.
>
> Venka is happy to be a part of the OSGeo Board again, helping the
> foundation that he helped form at the beginning. So please welcome back
> Venka to the Board of Directors.
>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Venkatesh_Raghavan
>
> --
> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
> Charter Member, Board of Directors
> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
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