[OSGeo-Discuss] Sol Katz Award - Call for Nominations

[Jeff McKenna]

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations for
the 2013 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software.

The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS)
will be given 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.

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
while at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. This early GFOSS archive
provided both source code and applications freely available to the
community. Sol was also a frequent contributor to many geospatial list
servers, providing much guidance to the geospatial community at large.

Sol unfortunately passed away in 1999 from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, but
his legacy lives on in the open source world. Those interested in making
a donation to the American Cancer Society, as per Sol's family's
request, can do so at https://donate.cancer.org/index.

Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to
SolKatzAward at osgeo.org with a description of the reasons for this
nomination. Nominations will be accepted until 23:59 UTC on July 31st
(http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=7&day=31&year=2013&hour=23&min=59&sec=59).
A recipient will be decided from the nomination list by an OSGeo
designated selection committee.

The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source
Software will be announced at the FOSS4G-Nottingham event in September.
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.

It should be noted that past awardees and selection committee members
are not eligible.

Past Awardees:

 2012: Venkatesh Raghavan
 2011: Martin Davis
 2010: Helena Mitasova
 2009: Daniel Morissette
 2008: Paul Ramsey
 2007: Steve Lime
 2006: Markus Neteler
 2005: Frank Warmerdam

Selection Committee 2013:

 Jeff McKenna (chair)
 Frank Warmerdam
 Markus Neteler
 Steve Lime
 Paul Ramsey
 Sophia Parafina
 Daniel Morissette
 Helena Mitasova
 Martin Davis
 Venkatesh Raghavan