[OSGeo-Discuss] NEWS: Venkatesh Raghavan Receives 2012 Sol Katz Award

[nicolas bozon]

Congratulations Venka !


2012/10/26 Vasile Craciunescu <vasile at geo-spatial.org>

> Congrats, Venka!
>
> Vasile
>
> Sent from my mobile device
>
> On 25 Oct 2012, at 20:00, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
> wrote:
>
> > --
> >
> > Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan was honored today with the 2012 Sol Katz Award
> > for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software during the inaugural
> > session of the FOSS4G-India 2012 (http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/foss4gindia/)
> > conference in Hyderabad, India. The
> > award was presented by Ravi Kumar and Vundavallu Aruna Kumar, Member of
> > Parliament.  Venka received a memento on behalf of the OSGeo-India
> Chapter.
> > Venka's dedication to FOSS4G and his community work around the world,
> > promoting open source geospatial, is second to none.  He has been
> > involved in OSGeo since the foundation was formed in 2006, and we are
> > lucky to have such a strong global voice in him.  The OSGeo foundation
> > wishes to thank Venka for his wonderful dedication.
> >
> > Background
> >
> > The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software is
> > awarded annually by OSGeo to individuals who have demonstrated
> > leadership in the GFOSS community. Recipients of the award will have
> > contributed significantly through their activities to advance open
> > source ideals in the geospatial realm. 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.
> > Sol Katz was an early pioneer of GFOSS and left behind a large body of
> > work in the form of applications, format specifications, and utilities.
> > In the early 80's, Sol assisted in the development of a public domain
> > GIS package called MOSS (Map Overlay and Statistical System). This
> > software was arguably the first open source GIS software in the world.
> > Sol would later go on to release and maintain PC MOSS. He was also one
> > of the first involved in public data translator utilities. Utilities
> > that he developed for converting DEMs and reading SDTS files were
> > contributed back to the geospatial community, and are still available
> > today. Sol was also a frequent contributor to many geospatial list
> > servers, providing much guidance to the geospatial community at large.
> > Sol Katz's collection of GIS utilities at the BLM is still available at
> > ftp://ftp.blm.gov/pub/gis/. Sadly, after fighting Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
> > for almost a decade, Sol died April 23, 1999 in bed. His legacy will
> > always live on in the GFOSS world.
> >
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> >
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