<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span></span></div><div><br></div> <div style='font-size: 12pt; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", "times", serif'> <div style='font-size: 12pt; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", "times", serif'> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, December 1, 2011 4:19 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Welcome new Charter members<br> </font> <br>
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--></style><div><div class="yiv600224545WordSection1"><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"'>Dear OSGeo Colleagues,</span></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"'> </span></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"'>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. </span></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"'> </span></div><div
class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"'>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</span></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;' class="yui_3_2_0_17_1322801143264245"><span style="background-color: #ffff00;"><br></span></span></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;' class="yui_3_2_0_17_1322801143264245"><span style="background-color: #ffff00;">benefits of geospatial technologies to all especially for the economically disadvantaged communities worldwide.</span></span></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;'
class="yui_3_2_0_17_1322801143264245"><span style="background-color: #ffff00;"><br></span></span></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;' class="yui_3_2_0_17_1322801143264245"><span style="background-color: #ffff00;"><span style="background-color: #40ffa0;">Well, and hope to see a better future..</span><br></span></span></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;' class="yui_3_2_0_17_1322801143264245"><span style="background-color: #ffff00;"><span style="background-color: #40ffa0;">Ravi Kumar<br></span></span></span></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"'> </span></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"'>Thanks to Jo and Mike for nominating me and all
charter members for giving me this opportunity.</span></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"'> </span></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"'>Best wishes,</span></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"'> </span></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"'>Suchith</span></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"'> </span></div><div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"'>Dr Suchith Anand</span></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size: 11pt; color:
rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"'>Nottingham Geospatial Institute<br>Nottingham Geospatial Building </span></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"'>University of Nottingham NG7 2 TU<br>Tel: (0)115 82 32750</span></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"'><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" 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></span></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"'><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/research/researchareas/opensourcegeospatialresearch.aspx"><span
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class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"'>Mission - Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research for bridging the digital divide</span></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"'> </span></div></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"'> </span></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-size: 10pt; font-family: "sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-size: 10pt; font-family: "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</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"> </div><div><div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Welcome to all new charter members.</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal" 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.</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Links to their blogs/web-pages will help too.</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Old charter members:</span></div></div><div><div
class="yiv600224545MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">It is very disturbing seeing the percentage of voting from charter members. </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Let us try and see that only those interested remain in the charter.</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Ravi Kumar</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div></div><br>
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font-family: "sans-serif"'></span></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"'> </span></div></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><span style='font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"'> </span></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-size: 10pt; font-family: "sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-size: 10pt; font-family: "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</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"> </div><div><div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal"
style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Welcome to all new charter members.</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal" 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.</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Links to their blogs/web-pages will help too.</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Old charter members:</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">It is very disturbing seeing the percentage of voting from charter members. </span></div></div><div><div
class="yiv600224545MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Let us try and see that only those interested remain in the charter.</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Ravi Kumar</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv600224545MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div></div><div><br></div>
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