[OSGeo-Announce] Nyall Dawson receives the 2025 Sol Katz Award

[Jorge Sanz]

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/

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Jorge Sanz | http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz