[OSGeo-Announce] Sol Katz Award - Call for Nominations

[Anne Ghisla]

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations
for the 2014 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://donate.cancer.org/index.

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 23:59 UTC on August
22nd
(http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=22&year=2014&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 at the FOSS4G-Portland event in September. 
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:

2013: Arnulf Christl
2012: Venkatesh Raghavan
2011: Martin Davis
2010: Helena Mitasova
2009: Daniel Morissette
2008: Paul Ramsey
2007: Steve Lime
2006: Markus Neteler
2005: Frank Warmerdam

Selection Committee 2014

Jeff McKenna (chair)
Frank Warmerdam
Markus Neteler
Steve Lime
Paul Ramsey
Sophia Parafina
Daniel Morissette
Helena Mitasova
Martin Davis
Venkatesh Raghavan
Arnulf Christl
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