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

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear All,

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations
for the 2016 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
4th 
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=4&year=2016&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-Bonn event in August. 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:

  * 2015: Maria Brovelli
  * 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 2016

  * Venkatesh Raghavan (chair)
  * Frank Warmerdam
  * Markus Neteler
  * Steve Lime
  * Paul Ramsey
  * Sophia Parafina
  * Daniel Morissette
  * Helena Mitasova
  * Martin Davis
  * Arnulf Christl
  * Gary Sherman
  * Maria Brovelli

Best

Venka

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