Hi Suchith,
It is great to see Geo Ambassador's getting called our and recognised
for their good work.
I suggest inviting them to join the OSGeo-Advocates page [1]
A Geo Ambassador concept was originally discussed in 2012 [1], and after
discussion about what criteria should be used to select Ambassadors, the
concept of OSGeo Advocate was created and then put into practice. (We
decided that anyone who wished to stand up and champion OSGeo could self
nominate themselves as an Advocate. We additionally provided the
facility to show badges such as "Charter Member" to show the experience
of each member, which would help conference organisors to select
appropriate presenters).
[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate
[2] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail//discuss/2012-April/thread.html#10267
On 3/11/2016 11:33 PM, 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/
<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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