[OSGeo-Announce] Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software - Call for Nominations

[Victoria Rautenbach]

*News item by Jeff McKenna*
*Published
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<https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/sol-katz-award-for-geospatial-free-and-open-source-software-call-for-nominations-2/>*

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations for
the 2022 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 .

Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to solkatzaward at lists
dot osgeo dot org 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 July 8th Anywhere on Earth. 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 virtually during the FOSS4G 2022 event in
Florence, Italy. 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:

 2021: Malena Libman
 2020: Anita Graser
 2019: Even Rouault
 2018: Astrid Emde
 2017: Andrea Aime
 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 2022:

   - 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
   - Andrea Aime
   - Astrid Emde
   - Even Rouault
   - Anita Graser
   - Ariel Anthieni
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