[OSGeo-UK] (Re)introducing myself

[Mateusz Loskot]

Jo Walsh wrote:
> dear all,
> 
> I've just moved back to the UK and thought I should (re)introduce
> myself to the UK OSGeo community.

Hi Jo,

It's really nice to see you hear!

> After three years on the OSGeo Board
> I'll be standing down this summer - between them, my new workplace
> and my one-year-old son leave me very little time for outside interests.
> But I hope to connect more to OSGeo at the grassroots, as it were.

Cool.

> I've just started work at EDINA, the JISC national data centre
> based at Edinburgh University. Here I'm taking a project called
> "GeoCrossWalk" and helping to turn it into a dependable service.
> It's a combination of gazetteer and geoparser, designed to
> plug in to other information services and help mine document
> repositories for interesting geographical references.

Sounds great!

Good luck on your new position and any plans to blog about your
activities in there on frot.org?

Cheers,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org