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

2018-11-18 Thread serenacoetzee 
+1. Victoria will be able to make valuable contributions to OSGeo!

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> On 17 Nov 2018, at 19:30,   
> 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" 
>  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) 
> Reply-To: astrid_e...@osgeo.org
> To: Cro 
> CC: victoria.rautenb...@gmail.com, Jeff McKenna
> 
>  
> Victoria Rautenbach
> Pretoria, South Africa
> victoria dot rautenbach at gmail dot com
>  
> It is our honour to nominate Victoria Rautenbach for the OSGeo Board of
> Directors.
>  
> 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.
>  
> 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.
>  
> 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.
>  
> She has organized a number of OpenStreetMap mapathons and arranged
> student team participation in open data quests in South Africa.
>  
> 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_e...@osgeo.org
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] R: FOSS4G Academic Track: deadlines extensions

2017-11-19 Thread serenacoetzee 
Dear Maria, happy to assist if you need help. 

Regards,
Serena

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> On 20 Nov 2017, at 09:39, Maria Antonia Brovelli  
> wrote:
> 
> Dear Suchith I can lead the prizes commission and celebration for FOSS4G 2018 
> Dar, being the Chair of the Academic Track. If there is somebody else willing 
> to help me, please show you up.
> Best.
> Maria 
> 
> Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung
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> 
>  Messaggio originale 
> Da: Suchith Anand  
> Data: 20/11/17 02:07 (GMT+01:00) 
> A: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org, discuss osgeo  
> Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Academic Track: deadlines extensions 
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> We are now working to put proposal for GeoForAll budget and OSGeo student 
> awards at FOSS4G conferences are important way for us to support excellent 
> students. It will be great to have these awards given at FOSS4G Dar.
> 
> My suggestion is  that 7500 USD in the budget is kept for OSGeo student 
> awards at FOSS4G  conferences (global or local). These awards will be decided 
> and given by the FOSS4G LoC. But before we make this request to OSGeo Board , 
> I would like to know if FOSS4G 2018 LOC  in Dar Es Salaam will like to give 
> Student awards (max 3500 USD in total for global event) and is there anyone 
> in the LOC willing to coordinate this. Unless there is someone in LOC willing 
> to do this, we cannot make this possible. If there are any other FOSS4G local 
> events happening in 2018 and wish to give student awards , the LOC can 
> contact the GeoForAll mail lists informing their interest and contact person 
> and we can plan to allocate the rest (maximum 1000 USD per local event - so 
> maximum 4 local events will be supported per year)
> 
> My question is - Is there any one in FOSS4G 2018 LOC and local FOSS4G 
> conferences happening in 2018 interested to give student awards and willing 
> to be point of contact for this. Ideally, if the LOCs can match fund this 
> with external funding the better for expanding impact .
> 
> Please let us know asap, so we can make an informed decision. thanks.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Suchith
> 
> 
> From: Discuss  on behalf of Maria Antonia 
> Brovelli 
> Sent: 19 November 2017 4:15 PM
> To: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss osgeo
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Academic Track: deadlines extensions
> 
> Sorry for my mistake. Below the correct version (Early Bird 15 May 2018)
> 
> 
> Dear All
> 
> please be noticed that, due to the extension of the Early Bird Registration 
> and to the many requests, the deadlines of the FOSS4G Academic Track in Dar 
> Es Salaam have been changed in this way:
> 
> 
> Abstract Submission deadline is  15 February 2018
> Abstract acceptance notice is 15 March 2018
> Early Bird Registration closes  15 May 2018
> Camera ready paper for the Proceedings has to be submitted by  30 April 2018
> 
> I recall you that the Proceedings of the Academic Track will be ready the 
> First Day of the Conference. They are published in “The International 
> Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information 
> Sciences”, which are open access publications, published under the Creative 
> Common Attribution 3.0 License and listed in the ISI Conference Proceedings 
> Citation Index (CPCI) of the Web of Science, SCOPUS, the E/I Compendex,and 
> the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
> 
> 
> Here the call for papers:
> 
> https://easychair.org/cfp/FOSS4G2018ACA
> 
> 
> We are looking forward  to seeing you in Dar Es Salaam 
> (http://2018.foss4g.org/)
> 
> 
> Maria, Ally Hassan and the whole LOC
> 
> 
> 
> Pay attention to this Special Issue and see if it is of interest by you:
> 
> http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studies
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
> Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing
> Politecnico di Milano
> 
> ISPRS WG IV/4 "Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)" 
> http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html, Board of Directors of 
> OSGeo; GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET 
> Advisory Board
> 
> UN-GGIM Academic Network Deputy Chair, UN-GGIM Italy, UN OpenGIS Initiative 
> (Chair of the Capacity Building WG)
> 
> Sol Katz Award 2015
> 
> P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
> Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,  
>  maria.brove...@polimi.it
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> Da: Discuss  per conto di Maria Antonia 
> Brovelli 
> Inviato: domenica 19 novembre 2017 16:56
> A: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss osgeo
> Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Academic Track: deadlines extensions
> 
> 
> Dear All
> 
> please be noticed that, due to the extension of the Early Bird Registration 
> and to the many requests, the deadlines of the FOSS4G Academic Track in Dar 
> Es Salaam have been chan