[Ica-osgeo-labs] Key updates - ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies

[Charles Schweik]

Congrats to Dr. Comboim and to you Suchith for your leadership prior!

While I've got everyone's attention, consider attending FOSS4G EU in Como
Italy. Maria's team has developed a beautiful website [1]. There will be a
GeoForAll working meeting co-located at this conference -- more on that
will follow in the coming months.

Cheers,
Charlie Schweik

[1] http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Suchith Anand <
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> It gives me great pleasure  to inform you all the good news that as part
> of the succession plan for the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial
> Technologies, Dr Silvana Comboim (Universidade Federal de Paraná ,Brazil)
> will be nominated as the proposed new chair of the commission for
> 2015-2019. As per the ICA statutes the nomination of chair should be done
> through National member states only and i expect Brazil to support this
> nomination  at the next General Assembly at ICC 2015 and take this forward
> with the new Terms of Reference for the commission for the period 2015-2019.
>
> It is very important that we have a strong leadership in place for this
> commission to support and expand all of the initiatives that was started
> and i have full confidence in Dr Silvana Comboim's dedication and abilities
> to take us to higher levels. I had the pleasure to work closely with her
> over the last 4 years  and  she was the main person who took the initiative
> to establish the first OSGeo lab in South America at the Federal University
> of Parana, Brazil.  I believe that Silvana will be the right person to
> chair and lead this commission for the next term (2015-2019 ) and build
> upon the activities that we have done and take this to higher level.  I
> also had the opportunity to see the amazing work she and her colleagues are
> doing when i visited Brazil in May 2014 and i see the work she is doing in
> Brazil having a great momentum for our global activities of "Geo for All"
> mission.
>
> Silvana will also be leading the ICC Pre-conference workshop on Spatial
> data infrastructures, standards, open source and open data for geospatial
> (SDI-Open 2015) in Rio, 2015 and the Conference itself
> http://www.icc2015.org  will be great opportunity to strengthen the "Geo
> for All" initiative and to reinforce the key projects and research links
> for the future.
>
> It had been my great pleasure  to get the opportunity to chair this
> commission in the last 4 years and i thank each and everyone of you for the
> support and help that you all provided for the initiatives we that have
> undertaken. Also special thanks to Prof. Thierry Badard (Canada) who was
> the cochair of this commission during this period for all his help provided
> to me.  I also thank the ICA President (Professor Georg Gartner) and the
> Executive Committee of the ICA for the strong support they all provided for
> all our activities including "Geo for All" and i am sure they will continue
> their strong support to Silvana for the future to take this to higher
> levels.
>
> I will  be working closely with Silvana from now  for the smooth
> transition  of the commission at ICC 2015.  I request all of you to support
> Silvana in her new role and provide her all help to expand our mission.
> Thanks again to you all for your help and support.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
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Charlie Schweik

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and
Administration

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Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2012)
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