[OSGeo-Discuss] Sol Katz Award 2017: Call for Nominations

[Jeff McKenna]

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations
for the 2017 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source
Software.

(you can find more info on the Sol Katz Award wiki page
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sol_Katz_Award)

The Sol Katz Award for Free and Open Source Software for 
Geospatial(FOSS4G) will be given to individuals who have demonstrated 
leadership in the FOSS4G 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 FOSS4G 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 FOSS4G 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 end-of-day July 28th 
Anywhere on Earth (https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe). 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 2017 event in August, in 
Boston, U.S. 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:

  2016: Jeff McKenna
  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 2017:

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
Maria Brovelli