<div dir="ltr">I second the nomination.<div><br></div><div style>Doug</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Margherita Di Leo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dileomargherita@gmail.com" target="_blank">dileomargherita@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="padding-right:1px;line-height:17px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><div style="padding-right:1px">
<span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Hi All,</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><br></span></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Let us nominate Yann Chemin [0] from France / Sri Lanka (rather "citizen of the world"), for OSGeo Charter membership.</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Yann is a researcher at IWMI [3,9], Visiting Lecturer at University of Colombo [4] and Visiting Lecturer/Consultant at University of Moratuwa [5], Sri Lanka.</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">His research interest lies in water, land and planetary remote sensing [1] .</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">One of his major goals is to provide extensive information on soil and vegetation from remote sensing sources, that are often the only data sources available in developing countries.</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">We (Anne & Madi) met Yann at GRASS Community Sprint in Genova in 2013 [6], after many years of email exchange and contributions on GRASS GIS documentation. We had the opportunity to meet him again [7] in GRASS Community Sprint in Prague [8], where we discussed extensively on how open source geospatial software can improve education and land management in Sri Lanka, where he currently lives.</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">We believe that Yann would be a very effective Charter Member. He is a passionate promoter of open source geospatial, a skilled researcher and a great communicator.</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Anne, Margherita and Jachym</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">[0] </span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Yann_Chemin" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Yann_Chemin</a></span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">[1] </span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><a href="http://iwmi.academia.edu/YannChemin" target="_blank">http://iwmi.academia.edu/YannChemin</a></span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">[2] </span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><a href="http://fr.linkedin.com/pub/yann-chemin/36/b79/bbb/" target="_blank">http://fr.linkedin.com/pub/yann-chemin/36/b79/bbb/</a></span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">[3] </span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/" target="_blank">http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/</a></span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">[4] </span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><a href="http://www.cmb.ac.lk/" target="_blank">http://www.cmb.ac.lk/</a></span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">[5] </span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><a href="http://www.mrt.ac.lk/foa/" target="_blank">http://www.mrt.ac.lk/foa/</a></span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">[6] </span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><a href="http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Genova_2013" target="_blank">http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Genova_2013</a></span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">[7] </span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><a href="https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/1001602_10151742246629248_1903368345_n.jpg" target="_blank">https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/1001602_10151742246629248_1903368345_n.jpg</a></span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">[8] </span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><a href="http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Prague_2013" target="_blank">http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Prague_2013</a></span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">[9] </span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/2013/06/measuring-a-plants-health-from-the-sky/" target="_blank">http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/2013/06/measuring-a-plants-health-from-the-sky/</a></span></div>
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<span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:'Times New Roman';border-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><div><font color="#666666">Best regards,<br><br>Dr. Margherita DI LEO </font></div>
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<div><font color="#666666"><a href="mailto:margherita.di-leo@jrc.ec.europa.eu" target="_blank">margherita.di-leo@jrc.ec.europa.eu</a></font></div><div><font color="#666666"><br></font></div><div><font color="#666666">Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission.</font></div>
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