[OSGeo-Discuss] News: Astrid Emde Receives 2018 Sol Katz Award

[Steven Ottens]

Congratulations Astrid! You do indeed really deserve this

cheers,

Steven


Op 5-9-2018 om 19:59 schreef Jeff McKenna:
> (online version: 
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Astrid_Emde_Receives_2018_Sol_Katz_Award )
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> Astrid Emde was honoured with the 2018 Sol Katz Award, presented on 29 
> August 2018, during the gala dinner of the FOSS4G event in Dar es 
> Salaam. This was the 14th year of the award.
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> Astrid has been involved in FOSS for a long time, starting through her 
> early Mapbender work at the CCGIS company in Germany, to becoming one 
> of the leaders of the Mapbender team at the WhereGroup company, and 
> now the backbone of OSGeo (working with the OSGeoLive team, helping 
> with the OSGeo news items, organizing OSGeo Board meetings, processing 
> license agreements as the OSGeo Secretary role, and becoming a true 
> leader as an OSGeo Board of Director). Astrid is very active 
> organizing events such as FOSSGIS events, the FOSSGIS e.V. local 
> chapter events, preparing OSGeo booth materials, and helping organize 
> code sprints all around the world.
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> Astrid is constantly working behind the scenes for the community, and 
> her calm nature has helped many across the world to feel comfortable 
> and grow.
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> On behalf of the OSGeo and FOSSGIS communities we congratulate and 
> thank Astrid for all of her passion. Thank you Astrid, you deserve this.
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