<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I absolutely second this nomination. I've nominated Chris in the past as well.<div><br></div><div>My web mapping life became so much easier with the birth of OpenLayers, and Chris was indeed always there on IRC and the mailing to help out. Ofcourse, he is not active anymore these days unfortunately, but IMHO that should not make his contributions from the past any less important.</div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Bart</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; ">-- <br>Bart van den Eijnden<br>OSGIS - <a href="http://osgis.nl">http://osgis.nl</a></span>
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<br><div><div>On Sep 18, 2012, at 3:11 PM, Richard Greenwood <<a href="mailto:richard.greenwood@gmail.com">richard.greenwood@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I Nominate Christopher Schmidt for the Sol Katz Award. I can not<br>imagine where the OpenLayers project would be without Chris' energy<br>and enthusiasm. Chris burst onto the FOSS4G scene at the 2006<br>conference in Lausanne and his name was immediately synonymous with<br>OpenLayers.<br><br>I hope that other members of our community who are closer to the<br>OpenLayers project will support my nomination and provide more detail<br>of Chris' contributions.<br><br>Rich<br><br>-- <br>Richard Greenwood<br><a href="mailto:richard.greenwood@gmail.com">richard.greenwood@gmail.com</a><br>www.greenwoodmap.com<br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br>Discuss@lists.osgeo.org<br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>