Hi Suchith,
As I've noticed a couple of GeoAmbassadors not being listed in the OSGeo
Advocate page, I suspect that these people are not aware of the Advocate
page. As part of your process of introducing people to GeoAmbassadors, I
suggest that you invite them to write up a personal profile for
themselves on the OSGeo Advocate page.
When we created OSGeo Advocates, we created OSGeo roles [1] which people
could assign to themselves, but I notice that we don't have a badge for
"Teacher", "Educator" or similar.
Would people like an OSGeo badge created for a Teacher role?
If so, what term should we use? Is "OSGeo Teacher" suitably descriptive?
What criteria should we use to describe a teacher? (See link below for
example criteria)
a. A teacher within an official University or School?
b. Someone who has run an OSGeo based Workshop?
c. Someone who has presented at a conference or similar on OSGeo topics?
d. Someone who has told their workmates about OSGeo after attending FOSS4G
[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#Understanding_OSGeo_roles
On 4/11/2016 6:43 PM, Suchith Anand wrote:
Thanks Cameron. This concept was build up from your excellent ideas
and discussions back in 2012 though we started this initiative
specifically for those contributing in widening geoeducation
opportunities in some form by supporting Open Principles in Education.
Everyone who is working to expand geoeducation opportunities for all
is a GeoAmbassodor and in fact, now lot of students have volunteered
themselves as our GeoAmbassodors. Through the GeoAmbassodor of the
month column in our newsletters, we want to highlight and thank one of
them every month. Anyone is welcome to nominate thier choice for the
GeoAmbassodor of the month. Just make sure you confirm with the
nominee that they are happy to be nominated and then email Nikos or
myself thier details and contributions by the 24th of each month.
All GeoAmbassodors are all invited to join OSGeo-Advocate and have
thier details published.
I am also welcoming all GeoMentors to be TrueMentors and start
supporting Open Principles in Education. Just share GeoForAll ideas
with everyone and you are a True GeoMentor and true ambassador of
Geography. So easy 😊
Best wishes,
Suchith
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From: Cameron Shorter <[email protected]>
Sent: 03 November 2016 7:34 PM
To: Anand Suchith; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Geo4All] GeoAmbassador of the month – Victoria Rautenbach
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/
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
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