[OSGeo-Announce] Ian Turton receives the 2026 Sol Katz Award

[Jorge Sanz]

https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/ian-turton-receives-the-2026-sol-katz-award/

We are honoured to announce that Ian Turton is the recipient of the
2026 Sol Katz Award (the 22nd year of the award), at the recent FOSS4G
event in Hiroshima, Japan.

Ian has been a member of our community from the very beginning, as an
original voting member who gathered in Chicago in February 2006 to
establish OSGeo.  He also is a co-founder of GeoTools, the Java
library that is the foundation for the Java ecosystem in OSGeo, and a
Project Steering Committee (PSC) member of GeoServer.  But more
importantly, for decades he has been helping new users, through talks,
workshops, answering questions on StackExchange, and always being a
kind and jovial person.  We are lucky to have him in this community.

Congrats Ian!

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 pay tribute to
one of its founders, for years to come.

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