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

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Congratulations Venka!

Thank you for your contributions.

Best,
Angelos

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) <seven at arnulf.us> wrote:

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> Congratulations Venka!
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> On 26.10.2012 04:47, Gérald Fenoy wrote:
> > Congratulations Venka for getting the Soltz Katz Award !
> >
> > Congratulations to OSGeo for making this choice, choosing the
> > place and an event which fit just perfectly i feel.
> >
> > Gérald Fenoy gerald.fenoy at geolabs.fr
> >
> > Le 25 oct. 2012 à 19:00, Jeff McKenna
> > <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> a écrit :
> >
> >> --
> >>
> >> 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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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
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