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

[Alvaro Galeano]

Congratulations !!!

2012/10/26 Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>

> Congratulations Venka!
>
> Thank you for your contributions.
>
> Best,
> Angelos
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> 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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