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

[Jeff McKenna]

Don't forget, nominations close this Friday.  Take a moment to nominate 
a leader in your space for the Sol Katz award.

-jeff



On 2015-07-23 10:20 AM, Jorge Sanz wrote:
> The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations
> for the 2015 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 August
> 21st (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=21&year=2015&hour=23&min=59&sec=59).
> A recipient will be decided from the nomination list by the OSGeo
> selection committee.
>
> The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source
> Software will be announced at the FOSS4G-Seoul 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.
>
> More info at the Sol Katz Award wiki page
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sol_Katz_Award
>
> Past Awardees:
>
>   2014: Gary Sherman
>   2013: Arnulf Christl
>   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 2015:
>
>      Jeff McKenna (chair)
>      Frank Warmerdam
>      Markus Neteler
>      Steve Lime
>      Paul Ramsey
>      Sophia Parafina
>      Daniel Morissette
>      Helena Mitasova
>      Martin Davis
>      Venkatesh Raghavan
>      Arnulf Christl
>      Gary Sherman
>


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