<div dir="ltr">I'd like to nominate Sean Gillies, who <div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/sgillies">https://github.com/sgillies</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>- has brought spatial-with-pythonic-principles to the masses of python users via the popular shapely and rasterio libraries</div><div>- had a hand in the birthing and nurturing of the geojson format, including its recent entry into the IETF</div><div>- was an early articulator of rest principles for geospatial and an important contributor to thinking in that area</div><div>- continues to chug away at bringing more spatial smarts into the world of pythonistas</div><div><br></div><div>And if that's not enough, support his nomination just for the lulz.</div><div><br></div><div>P.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp" target="_blank">raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Dear All,<br>
<br>
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations
<br>
for the 2016 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source <br>
Software. <br>
<br>
The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software <br>
(GFOSS) will be given to individuals who have demonstrated
leadership <br>
in the GFOSS community. Recipients of the award will have
contributed <br>
significantly through their activities to advance open source ideals
<br>
in the geospatial realm. <br>
<br>
Sol Katz was an early pioneer of GFOSS and left behind a large body
of <br>
work in the form of applications, format specifications, and
utilities <br>
while at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. This early GFOSS
archive <br>
provided both source code and applications freely available to the <br>
community. Sol was also a frequent contributor to many geospatial
list <br>
servers, providing much guidance to the geospatial community at
large. <br>
<br>
Sol unfortunately passed away in 1999 from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma,
but <br>
his legacy lives on in the open source world. Those interested in <br>
making a donation to the American Cancer Society, as per Sol's <br>
family's request, can do so at <a href="https://donate.cancer.org/index" target="_blank">https://donate.cancer.org/index</a>.
<br>
<br>
Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to <br>
<a href="mailto:SolKatzAward@osgeo.org" target="_blank">SolKatzAward@osgeo.org</a>
with a description of the reasons for this <br>
nomination. Nominations will be accepted until 23:59 UTC on August <br>
4th
<a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=4&year=2016&hour=23&min=59&sec=59" target="_blank">http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=4&year=2016&hour=23&min=59&sec=59</a>.<br>
<br>
A recipient will be decided from the nomination list by the OSGeo <br>
selection committee. <br>
<br>
The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source
<br>
Software will be announced at the FOSS4G-Bonn event in August. The <br>
hope is that the award will both acknowledge the work of community <br>
members, and pay tribute to one of its founders, for years to come.
<br>
<br>
It should be noted that past awardees and selection committee
members <br>
are not eligible. <br>
<br>
More info at the Sol Katz Award wiki page <br>
<a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sol_Katz_Award" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sol_Katz_Award</a>
<br>
<br>
Past Awardees: <br>
<ul>
<li> 2015: Maria Brovelli</li>
<li> 2014: Gary Sherman</li>
<li> 2013: Arnulf Christl</li>
<li> 2012: Venkatesh Raghavan</li>
<li> 2011: Martin Davis</li>
<li> 2010: Helena Mitasova</li>
<li> 2009: Daniel Morissette</li>
<li> 2008: Paul Ramsey</li>
<li> 2007: Steve Lime</li>
<li> 2006: Markus Neteler</li>
<li> 2005: Frank Warmerdam</li>
</ul>
Selection Committee 2016<br>
<ul>
<li> Venkatesh Raghavan (chair)</li>
<li> Frank Warmerdam</li>
<li> Markus Neteler</li>
<li> Steve Lime</li>
<li> Paul Ramsey</li>
<li> Sophia Parafina</li>
<li> Daniel Morissette</li>
<li> Helena Mitasova</li>
<li> Martin Davis</li>
<li> Arnulf Christl</li>
<li> Gary Sherman</li>
<li> Maria Brovelli</li>
</ul>
<p>Best</p>
<p>Venka<br>
</p>
<ul>
</ul>
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