It is my honour to second this thank you to Victoria. I'm sure many out
there haven't had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know Victoria
yet, who along with Serena share their FOSS4G passion through their work
throughout Africa, from their Geo4All lab at the University of Pretoria.
I can tell you that Victoria has that rare character that makes being
a part of this global community so special; she's energetic, passionate
and is a leader, who's absolutely ready to burst onto the world scene -
yet she'll be sure to give you a good laugh as well ha. The last time I
saw her at an event, right after the event finished we went on a
rollercoaster ride together, in the spur of the moment, ha! It's those
moments of fun and sharing, that we all cherish in this community so
much, and can never forget. Thanks Victoria, from all of OSGeo, for
being you! :)
-jeff
--
Jeff McKenna
President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna
On 2016-11-03 9:33 AM, Suchith Anand wrote:
Dear colleagues,
It is my great pleasure to introduce Victoria Rautenbach from the Centre
of Geoinformation Science (CGIS) at the University of Pretoria (UP) in
South Africa. as our GeoAmbassador . It is even more great pleasure to
have another GeoAmbassodor Dr. Serena Coetzee (the GeoForAll chair of
Africa and who all of our colleagues will already know) who nominated
Victoria for us. I have been always amazed and inspired by the work that
Serena and colleagues have been doing in South Africa. I first met
Serena at ICC Dresden in 2013 where she also presented her ideas at the
ICA Commission meeting of Open Source Geospatial Technologies . I have
not yet got the opportunity to meet Victoria but I am aware of her great
work and contributions to Open Principles in Geo Education. I want to
thank Serena for introducing to us a great colleague as our
GeoAmbassodor of the month and sending us all the details of her
excellent work and contributions.
Victoria is an enthusiastic contributor to open source / open data /
open education work at University of Pretoria. She uses open source
software, such as QGIS, GeoServer and PostGIS, in the modules that she
teaches and is the first port of call for open source software support
for students. She engages students in open data events and has arranged
a number of events to introduce geoinformatics to school children. More
details of her excellent work at
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/11/geoambassador-of-the-month-victoria-rautenbach/
More details will be published at our newsletter later this month at
http://www.geoforall.org/newsletters/
GeoForAll is a worldwide movement that provides immediate benefit to the
world. We aim to create openness in Geo Education for developing
creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open
innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit
of the whole society and for our future generations.
I am truly inspired to understand more about the amazing work done by
Victoria and colleagues at the University of Pretoria. We are proud to
honour Victoria as our GeoAmbassodor and we are extremely grateful for
her contributions to Geo for All.
Best wishes,
Suchith
Dr. Suchith Anand
http://www.geoforall.org/
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org
GeoForAll - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science
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