[GRASS-user] Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software - Call for Nominations

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

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

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





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Helmut
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