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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dear OSGeo Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I am greatly humbled and thankful for this opportunity to be Charter member of OSGeo. I will strongly continue in my efforts with the aim to get Open Source GIS its rightful place in geospatial education worldwide. It is a long road but i am confident with all of our joint efforts and hardwork we will achieve this aim. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Having strong agenda and result oriented plans for Education and training is very important for the long term sustainability of OSGeo and our aim to help bring the benefits of geospatial technologies to all especially for the economically disadvantaged communities worldwide.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks to Jo and Mike for nominating me and all charter members for giving me this opportunity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Suchith<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Dr Suchith Anand</span><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Nottingham Geospatial Institute<br>Nottingham Geospatial Building <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>University of Nottingham NG7 2 TU<br>Tel: (0)115 82 32750<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/research/researchareas/opensourcegeospatialresearch.aspx"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/research/researchareas/opensourcegeospatialresearch.aspx</span></a> <br><a href="http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue'>http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/"><span style='color:blue'>http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/</span></a><br><a href="http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue'>http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Mission - Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research for bridging the digital divide</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ravi Kumar<br><b>Sent:</b> 01 December 2011 06:35<br><b>To:</b> osgeo-discuss<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSGeo-Discuss] Welcome new Charter members<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Welcome to all new charter members.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Now it is time to hear from them their plans for OSGeo in general and their domain, local chapters in particular.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Links to their blogs/web-pages will help too.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Old charter members:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>It is very disturbing seeing the percentage of voting from charter members. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Let us try and see that only those interested remain in the charter.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Ravi Kumar<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><br/>
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