From jsanz at osgeo.org Sun Jul 2 09:55:08 2017 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2017 18:55:08 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software - Call for Nominations Message-ID: The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations for the 2017 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software. 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. 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. 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 end-of-day July 28th Anywhere on Earth (https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe). A recipient will be decided from the nomination list by the OSGeo selection committee. The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software will be announced at the FOSS4G 2017 event in August, in Boston, U.S. 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: 2016: Jeff McKenna 2015: Maria Brovelli 2014: Gary Sherman 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 2017: Jeff McKenna (chair) Frank Warmerdam Markus Neteler Steve Lime Paul Ramsey Sophia Parafina Daniel Morissette Helena Mitasova Martin Davis Venkatesh Raghavan Arnulf Christl Gary Sherman Maria Brovelli From jsanz at osgeo.org Fri Jul 21 01:29:22 2017 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 10:29:22 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Help fund the OSGeo Travel Grant Programme Message-ID: The OSGeo Travel Grant Programme increases access to FOSS4G conferences. Demand for travel grants is fast outpacing funds and we've got many great applicants. Will you help us bring more people to Boston? Please donate to the cause. If you would like to support increasing access to FOSS4G, you can donate to the Travel Grant Programme here, https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=BHVFTPSGFS99W. We greatly appreciate your support. More information on the Travel Grant Programme is available on the wiki, https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Travel_Grant_Programme_2017 Thanks, The 2017 Travel Grant Programme workgroup Links: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=BHVFTPSGFS99W https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Travel_Grant_Programme_2017