[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Board nomination: Victoria Rautenbach

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+1. Victoria will be able to make valuable contributions to OSGeo!

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> On 17 Nov 2018, at 19:30, <b.j.kobben at utwente.nl> <b.j.kobben at utwente.nl> wrote:
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> I’m happy to second Victoria’s nomination!
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> Barend Köbben
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> On 17/11/2018, 00:07, "Discuss on behalf of Vasile Craciunescu" <discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of vasile at geo-spatial.org> wrote:
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> Forwarding nomination of Victoria Rautenbach by Astrid Emde and Jeff
> McKenna. The Board Nominations page has been updated:
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2018
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> Vasile, Vicky & Jorge
> CRO 2018 Elections
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> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: OSGeo Board nomination: Victoria Rautenbach
> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 23:49:53 +0100
> From: Astrid Emde (OSGeo) <astrid_emde at osgeo.org>
> Reply-To: astrid_emde at osgeo.org
> To: Cro <cro at osgeo.org>
> CC: victoria.rautenbach at gmail.com, Jeff McKenna
> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
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> Victoria Rautenbach
> Pretoria, South Africa
> victoria dot rautenbach at gmail dot com
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> It is our honour to nominate Victoria Rautenbach for the OSGeo Board of
> Directors.
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> Many will know of Victoria’s effort and passion through several OSGeo
> educational activities, where she helps young students and young
> professionals become introduced to the OSGeo community of projects. She
> is both an administrator and mentor for this year’s Google Code-in
> contest (working with pre-university OSGeo students aged 13-17), and she
> has also been a mentor for the Google Summer of Code the past years
> (working with university OSGeo students).  She also helped with the UN
> OpenGIS initiative as well.
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> For her day job Victoria Rautenbach is a senior lecturer in the
> Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology at the
> University of Pretoria, South Africa.
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> She is a member of the ICA-OSGeo lab at the University of Pretoria since
> its inception in 2012. She is very passionate about the use of open
> source in education and also the increased use of open source in
> developing countries. She teaches at the University of Pretoria and
> makes use of open source GIS products in all the Geoinformatics modules
> that she teaches.
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> She has organized a number of OpenStreetMap mapathons and arranged
> student team participation in open data quests in South Africa.
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> Victoria would be a great asset to have on the Board. Please welcome her
> onto the OSGeo Board of Directors.
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> https://www.osgeo.org/member/rautenbach/
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> Astrid Emde & Jeff McKenna
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> Astrid Emde
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> Astrid Emde
> OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary
> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
> https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/
> astrid_emde at osgeo.org
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