[OSGeo-Announce] Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software - Call for Nominations

[Frank Warmerdam]

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations for the 
2007 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software.

The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS) will be 
given to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the GFOSS community. 
Recipients of the award will have contributed significantly through their 
activities to advance open source ideals in the geospatial realm.

Sol Katz was an early pioneer of GFOSS and left behind a large body of work in 
the form of applications, format specifications, and utilities while at the 
U.S. Bureau of Land Management. This early GFOSS archive provided both source 
code and applications freely available to the community. Sol was also a 
frequent contributor to many geospatial list servers, providing much guidance 
to the geospatial community at large.

Sol unfortunately passed away in 1999 from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, but his 
legacy lives on in the open source world. Those interested in making a donation 
to the American Cancer Society, as per Sol's family's request, can do so at 
https://www.cancer.org/asp/donate/don_multi_donate.asp?navToScreen=don_1.

Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to SolKatzAward at osgeo.org 
with a description of the reasons for this nomination.  Nominations will be 
accepted until midnight UTC on September 7th 
(http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=09&day=07&year=2007&hour=23&min=59&sec=59). 
A recipient will be decided from the nomination list by an OSGeo designated 
selection committee.

The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software 
will be announced on September 27th at the FOSS4G 2007 conference 
(http://www.foss4g2007.org/) closing plenary in Victoria, Canada.  The hope is 
that the award will both acknowledge the work of community members, and pay 
tribute to one of its founders, for years to come.

It should be noted that past awardees and selection committee members are not 
eligible.

Past Awardees:
   2006: Markus Neteler
   2005: Frank Warmerdam

Selection Committee:
   Frank Wamerdam (chair)
   Jeff McKenna
   Paul Ramsey
   Venkatesh Raghavan
   Markus Neteler

Best regards,
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