<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I'd like to nominate Dr. Andy Anderson of Amherst College, Amherst USA for OSGeo Charter Member. </div><div><br></div><div>I have asked him about being nominated, and he confirmed he was interested.</div><div><br></div><div>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]. </div><div><br></div><div>FYI, below is the information Andy provides on his OSGeo Wiki entry [2]:</div><div><br></div><div>"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."<br></div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Charlie Schweik</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://www.umass.edu/opensource/">http://www.umass.edu/opensource/</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Andy_Anderson">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Andy_Anderson</a></div><div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Charlie Schweik<br><br><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Professor, Department of Environmental Conservation &</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Interim Director of the School of Public Policy,</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">University of Massachusetts, Amherst</div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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