<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">+1. Victoria will be able to make valuable contributions to OSGeo!<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 17 Nov 2018, at 19:30, <<a href="mailto:b.j.kobben@utwente.nl">b.j.kobben@utwente.nl</a>> <<a href="mailto:b.j.kobben@utwente.nl">b.j.kobben@utwente.nl</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">I’m happy to second Victoria’s nomination!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 17/11/2018, 00:07, "Discuss on behalf of Vasile Craciunescu" <<a href="mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a> on behalf of
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<p class="MsoNormal">Forwarding nomination of Victoria Rautenbach by Astrid Emde and Jeff
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<p class="MsoNormal">McKenna. The Board Nominations page has been updated: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2018">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2018</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Subject: OSGeo Board nomination: Victoria Rautenbach<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 23:49:53 +0100<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">From: Astrid Emde (OSGeo) <<a href="mailto:astrid_emde@osgeo.org">astrid_emde@osgeo.org</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Reply-To: <a href="mailto:astrid_emde@osgeo.org">astrid_emde@osgeo.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To: Cro <<a href="mailto:cro@osgeo.org">cro@osgeo.org</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">CC: <a href="mailto:victoria.rautenbach@gmail.com">victoria.rautenbach@gmail.com</a>, Jeff McKenna
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<p class="MsoNormal"><<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Victoria Rautenbach<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Pretoria, South Africa<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">victoria dot rautenbach at gmail dot com<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It is our honour to nominate Victoria Rautenbach for the OSGeo Board of
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<p class="MsoNormal">Directors.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Many will know of Victoria’s effort and passion through several OSGeo
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<p class="MsoNormal">educational activities, where she helps young students and young
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<p class="MsoNormal">professionals become introduced to the OSGeo community of projects. She
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<p class="MsoNormal">is both an administrator and mentor for this year’s Google Code-in
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<p class="MsoNormal">contest (working with pre-university OSGeo students aged 13-17), and she
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<p class="MsoNormal">has also been a mentor for the Google Summer of Code the past years
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<p class="MsoNormal">(working with university OSGeo students). She also helped with the UN
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<p class="MsoNormal">OpenGIS initiative as well.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For her day job Victoria Rautenbach is a senior lecturer in the
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<p class="MsoNormal">Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology at the
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<p class="MsoNormal">University of Pretoria, South Africa.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">She is a member of the ICA-OSGeo lab at the University of Pretoria since
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<p class="MsoNormal">its inception in 2012. She is very passionate about the use of open
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<p class="MsoNormal">source in education and also the increased use of open source in
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<p class="MsoNormal">developing countries. She teaches at the University of Pretoria and
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<p class="MsoNormal">makes use of open source GIS products in all the Geoinformatics modules
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<p class="MsoNormal">She has organized a number of OpenStreetMap mapathons and arranged
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<p class="MsoNormal">student team participation in open data quests in South Africa.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Victoria would be a great asset to have on the Board. Please welcome her
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.osgeo.org/member/rautenbach/">https://www.osgeo.org/member/rautenbach/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Astrid Emde & Jeff McKenna<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Astrid Emde<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Astrid Emde<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary<o:p></o:p></p>
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