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<p><a
href="https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/sol-katz-award-for-geospatial-free-and-open-source-software-call-for-nominations-2025/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/sol-katz-award-for-geospatial-free-and-open-source-software-call-for-nominations-2025/</a></p>
<p>The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open
nominations for the 2025 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and
Open Source Software.</p>
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<p>The Sol Katz Award for Free and Open Source Software for
Geospatial (FOSS4G) will be given to individuals who have
demonstrated leadership in the FOSS4G community. Recipients of the
award will have contributed significantly through their activities
to advance open source ideals in the geospatial realm.</p>
<p>Solomon ‘Sol’ Katz was an early pioneer of FOSS4G 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 FOSS4G 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.</p>
<p>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 <a
class="external free moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://donate.cancer.org" rel="nofollow">https://donate.cancer.org</a>
.</p>
<p>Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to <i>solkatzaward
at lists dot osgeo dot org</i> with a description of the reasons
for this nomination (after sending, please wait for the moderator
to accept your message). Nominations will be accepted until
end-of-day 12th September <a class="external text"
href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe" rel="nofollow">Anywhere
on Earth</a>. A recipient will be decided from the nomination
list by the OSGeo selection committee.</p>
<p>The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open
Source Software will be announced virtually during the FOSS4G 2025
event in Auckland, New Zealand. 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.</p>
<p>It should be noted that past awardees and selection committee
members are not eligible.</p>
<p>Past Awardees:</p>
<ul>
<li>2024: <a class="mw-redirect" title="Tom Kralidis"
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Tom_Kralidis">Tom Kralidis</a></li>
<li>2023: <a class="external text"
href="https://www.osgeo.org/member/butler-howard/"
rel="nofollow">Howard Butler</a></li>
<li>2022: <a class="mw-redirect" title="User:Strk"
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Strk">Sandro Santilli</a></li>
<li>2021: <a title="User:Mlibman"
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mlibman">Malena Libman</a></li>
<li>2020: <a class="mw-redirect" title="User:AnitaGraser"
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:AnitaGraser">Anita
Graser</a></li>
<li>2019: <a title="Even Rouault"
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Even_Rouault">Even Rouault</a></li>
<li>2018: <a title="Astrid Emde"
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Astrid_Emde">Astrid Emde</a></li>
<li>2017: <a title="User:Aaime"
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aaime">Andrea Aime</a></li>
<li>2016: <a title="Jeff McKenna"
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna">Jeff McKenna</a></li>
<li>2015: <a title="User:Maria"
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maria">Maria Brovelli</a></li>
<li>2014: <a title="Gary Sherman"
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Gary_Sherman">Gary Sherman</a></li>
<li>2013: <a title="Arnulf Christl"
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Arnulf_Christl">Arnulf
Christl</a></li>
<li>2012: <a title="Venkatesh Raghavan"
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Venkatesh_Raghavan">Venkatesh
Raghavan</a></li>
<li>2011: <a title="User:Mdavis"
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mdavis">Martin Davis</a></li>
<li>2010: <a title="User:Helena"
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Helena">Helena Mitasova</a></li>
<li>2009: <a title="User:Dmorissette"
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dmorissette">Daniel
Morissette</a></li>
<li>2008: <a title="User:Pwramsey3"
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Pwramsey3">Paul Ramsey</a></li>
<li>2007: <a title="User:Sdlime"
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Sdlime">Steve Lime</a></li>
<li>2006: <a class="mw-redirect" title="User:Neteler"
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Neteler">Markus Neteler</a></li>
<li>2005: <a title="User:Warmerda"
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Warmerda">Frank
Warmerdam</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Selection Committee 2025:</p>
<ul>
<li>Jeff McKenna (chair)</li>
<li>Frank Warmerdam</li>
<li>Markus Neteler</li>
<li>Steve Lime</li>
<li>Paul Ramsey</li>
<li>Sophia Parafina</li>
<li>Daniel Morissette</li>
<li>Helena Mitasova</li>
<li>Martin Davis</li>
<li>Venkatesh Raghavan</li>
<li>Arnulf Christl</li>
<li>Gary Sherman</li>
<li>Maria Brovelli</li>
<li>Andrea Aime</li>
<li>Astrid Emde</li>
<li>Even Rouault</li>
<li>Anita Graser</li>
<li>Ariel Anthieni</li>
<li>Sandro Santilli</li>
<li>Howard Butler</li>
<li>Tom Kralidis</li>
</ul>
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