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

[Tom Kralidis]

Congratulations Venka!

Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:07:19 +0200
From: nicolas.bozon at gmail.com
To: vasile at geo-spatial.org
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Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] NEWS: Venkatesh Raghavan Receives 2012 Sol Katz	Award

Congratulations Venka !


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

Congrats, Venka!



Vasile



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On 25 Oct 2012, at 20:00, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:



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> 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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