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

[Paul Ramsey]

I'd like to nominate Sean Gillies, who

https://github.com/sgillies

- has brought spatial-with-pythonic-principles to the masses of python
users via the popular shapely and rasterio libraries
- had a hand in the birthing and nurturing of the geojson format, including
its recent entry into the IETF
- was an early articulator of rest principles for geospatial and an
important contributor to thinking in that area
- continues to chug away at bringing more spatial smarts into the world of
pythonistas

And if that's not enough, support his nomination just for the lulz.

P.


On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan <
raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote:

> 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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