From xurxosanz at gmail.com Fri Jan 9 02:13:27 2026 From: xurxosanz at gmail.com (Jorge Sanz) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2026 11:13:27 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Nyall Dawson receives the 2025 Sol Katz Award Message-ID: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/nyall-dawson-receives-the-2025-sol-katz-award/ We are honoured to announce that Nyall[1] is the recipient of the 2025 Sol Katz Award (the 21st year of the award) at the recent FOSS4G event in Auckland, New Zealand. Nyall Dawson has been working on FOSS4G projects since 2013, having contributed to numerous projects such as QGIS, GDAL, and PROJ. He is best known as a key, longstanding core contributor to QGIS, with over 24000 commits (and growing). Nyall is also a leader in community building, having led numerous crowdfunding initiatives, training, outreach, and instruction videos. Congratulations to an amazing contributor to our community Thanks Nyall! ## About the award The Sol Katz Award for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) is awarded annually by OSGeo to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the FOSS4G community. Recipients of the award have contributed significantly through their activities to advance open source ideals in the geospatial realm. The award acknowledges both the work of community members and pays tribute to one of its founders, for years to come. Read more about Sol Katz at Awards[2]. ## About OSGeo The Open Source Geospatial Foundation[3] is a not-for-profit organization to ?empower everyone with open source geospatial?. The software foundation directly supports projects serving as an outreach and advocacy organization, providing financial, organizational, and legal support for the open source geospatial community. OSGeo works with QFieldCloud, GeoCat, Provincie Zuid-Holland, terrestris, WhereGroup, and other sponsors, along with our partners, to foster an open approach to software, standards, data, and education. [1]: https://www.osgeo.org/member/dawson-2/ [2]: https://www.osgeo.org/community/awards/ [3]: http://osgeo.org/ -- Jorge Sanz | http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz From xurxosanz at gmail.com Thu Jan 15 01:59:38 2026 From: xurxosanz at gmail.com (Jorge Sanz) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:59:38 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo Board Election 2025 results Message-ID: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/board-election-2025-results/ The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is pleased to announce the results of its Board of Directors elections 2025. There were five open seats for the 2025 board in this cycle of the Board of Directors election. The Chief Returning Officers reported that 285 out of 468 Charter members cast their votes for the Board of Directors (60% participation). More information on the election results is available on the dedicated OSGeo wiki page[1]. We are happy to announce that the following candidates were elected to the Board of Directors (in alphabetical order) Codrina Maria Ilie Jeroen Ticheler Marco Bernasocchi Tim Sutton Vicky Vergara Codrina Maria Ilie, Jeroen Ticheler, Marco Bernasocchi, and Vicky Vergara were reelected, and Tim Sutton was newly elected. The President and Executive Positions will be announced in early 2026. Read more about the OSGeo Board of Directors here[2]. Lastly, the OSGeo Board of Directors and Charter members would like to express their gratitude to Rajat Shinde for his service in the 2021-2023 and 2024-2025 cycles, and also to Ariel Anthieni and Matthew Hanson for their nominations. We would also like to thank the Chief Returning Officer, Lu?s de Sousa, for his hard work during the last election cycle. ## About OSGeo The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is a not-for-profit organization to ?empower everyone with open source geospatial?. The software foundation directly supports projects serving as an outreach and advocacy organization, providing financial, organizational, and legal support for the open source geospatial community. OSGeo works with QFieldCloud, GeoCat, Provincie Zuid-Holland, terrestris, WhereGroup, and other sponsors, along with our partners, to foster an open approach to software, standards, data, and education. [1]: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2025_Results [2]: https://www.osgeo.org/about/board/