[Geo4All] [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador– Dr. Peter Mooney

[Jody Garnett]

Ah ha Peter, I am starting to see why you were volunteered to help out with
the website/rebranding :)
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Jody Garnett

On 3 May 2017 at 00:35, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> On behalf of GeoforAll community, It is my great pleasure to introduce Dr.
> Peter Mooney as our GeoAmbassador. Peter Mooney received his PhD in
> Computer Science in 2004 from Maynooth University. The topic of his PhD
> research was on shortest path optimisation. For the next number of years he
> worked with the Irish Environmental Protection Agency as a Research Fellow.
> During this time he began working in the areas of FOSS4G, Open Data and
> Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). Indeed Peter has been actively
> working as a researcher in the area of VGI and Citizen since 2009. With the
> EPA he has worked as a web developer, database administrator and more
> recently as a software developer for the National Ambient Air Quality
> network. In 2015, Peter took up a temporary position as lecturer in
> Computer Science at Maynooth University and in early 2017 he was appointed
> as a tenure track lecturer.
>
> In the summer of 2015 he became the European Co-Chair of GeoForAll with
> Prof. Maria Brovelli. Peter led a strong Irish proposal to host the global
> FOSS4G 2016 conference in Dublin but narrowly missed out to the fantastic
> Bonn FOSS4G 2016 bid. With colleagues in 2017 he is working to establish
> the first Irish OSGeo Local chapter. At the end of May this year there will
> be the first Irish OSGeo event with the 1st Irish OSGeo Symposium .
>
>
> Details of his  contributions are at http://opensourcegeospatial.ic
> aci.org/2017/05/geoambassador-dr-peter-mooney/
>
> We are proud to honour Peter Mooney as our GeoAmbassodor and we are
> extremely grateful for his contributions to Geo for All and this selfless
> contributions for expanding geoeducation opportunities for all.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
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