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<p>Hi Suchith,</p>
<p>It is great to see Geo Ambassador's getting called our and
recognised for their good work.</p>
<p>I suggest inviting them to join the OSGeo-Advocates page [1] <br>
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<p>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).<br>
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<p>[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate</a></p>
<p>[2]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail//discuss/2012-April/thread.html#10267">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail//discuss/2012-April/thread.html#10267</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/11/2016 11:33 PM, Suchith Anand
wrote:<br>
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colleagues,<br>
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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.<br>
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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
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http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/11/geoambassador-of-the-month-victoria-rautenbach/</a> <br>
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More details will be published at our newsletter later this
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
<br>
Suchith<br>
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Dr. Suchith Anand<br>
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