[OSGeo-Discuss] Reminder: Call for Nominations for the 2018 Sol Katz Award

[Jeff McKenna]

A reminder that the call for nominations ends tomorrow at the end of day.



On 2018-07-06 6:47 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations for 
> the 2018 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 August 10th 
> 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 2018 event in August, in Dar es 
> Salaam, Tanzania. 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:
> 
>   2017: Andrea Aime
>   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 2018:
> 
> 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
> Andrea Aime
> 
> 
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