[OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] GeoAmbassador / OSGeo Advocate – Teacher badge?

Fri Nov 4 11:56:20 PDT 2016

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
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> Sent: 03 November 2016 7:34 PM
> To: Anand Suchith; discuss at lists.osgeo.org; geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
> 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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