[OSGeo-Announce] Astrid Emde Receives 2018 Sol Katz Award

[Jeff McKenna]

(online version: 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Astrid_Emde_Receives_2018_Sol_Katz_Award )

Astrid Emde was honoured with the 2018 Sol Katz Award, presented on 29 
August 2018, during the gala dinner of the FOSS4G event in Dar es 
Salaam. This was the 14th year of the award.

Astrid has been involved in FOSS for a long time, starting through her 
early Mapbender work at the CCGIS company in Germany, to becoming one of 
the leaders of the Mapbender team at the WhereGroup company, and now the 
backbone of OSGeo (working with the OSGeoLive team, helping with the 
OSGeo news items, organizing OSGeo Board meetings, processing license 
agreements as the OSGeo Secretary role, and becoming a true leader as an 
OSGeo Board of Director). Astrid is very active organizing events such 
as FOSSGIS events, the FOSSGIS e.V. local chapter events, preparing 
OSGeo booth materials, and helping organize code sprints all around the 
world.

Astrid is constantly working behind the scenes for the community, and 
her calm nature has helped many across the world to feel comfortable and 
grow.

On behalf of the OSGeo and FOSSGIS communities we congratulate and thank 
Astrid for all of her passion. Thank you Astrid, you deserve this.