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

[sukhjit sehra]

Congrats sir

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Sukhjit

On Sat, 6 May 2017 at 21:59, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.icaci.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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