[OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Board: Helena Mitasova

[Ari Jolma]

Seconded.

Ari

Markus Neteler kirjoitti:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am very pleased to nominate Helena Mitasova for one of the OSGeo
> board of directors seats.
> 
> Helena is in Open Source GIS since the '80s and a strong and long term
> contributor not only to the GRASS GIS project, but to Open Source
> geospatial technologies in general. I know Helena for 10 years, others
> in this forum maybe for even longer.
> 
> She provides a valuable link to academia and also brings perspective
> from academia. Not just North Carolina State University, but she meets
> with people from other universities as well, including Michael
> Goodchild. She wants to promote OSGeo in UCGIS - University Consortium
> for GIScience), and can also bring some insight into US government
> sponsored GIS-research (federal and NC state). She can provide
> connections to East Europe, too.
> 
> She wants to contribute to the core curriculum project of OSGeo and
> has a lot of experience with graduate students from a great variety of
> disciplines, from engineering, natural resources, computer science,
> geography.
> 
> Best regards
> 
>  Markus Neteler
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Prof. Ari Jolma
Kartografia ja Geoinformatiikka / Cartography and Geoinformatics
Teknillinen Korkeakoulu / Helsinki University of Technology
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