[OSGeoJapan-discuss] Congratulations to Venka!

["Toru Mori (森 亮)"]

Mage Whopperさん
森亮です。
ページと翻訳の作成、ありがとうございます。

＃最初の段落で、事実と異なると思われる部分がありましたので、その部分を修正しました。
（Ravi Kumarは国会議員ではない、ベンカ先生はOSGeoインドの代表者ではない）

On 2012/10/27, at 0:43, Mage Whopper <magewhopper ＠ gmail.com> wrote:

> ラガワン先生、皆様
> 
> Mage Whopperです。
> 
> すばらしいお知らせありがとうございます。
> 
> ひとまず日本語訳を
> http://wiki.osgeo.jp/index.php?title=Congratulations_to_Venka,_and_the_whole_OSGeo-Japan_community
> に作成しました。
> 
> ラガワン先生にお会いしたことがあるだけで
> 周りの事情をほとんどわからずに翻訳していますので
> おかしな箇所等ありましたら修正をお願いいたします。
> 
> おめでとうございます。
> 
> Mage Whopper
> magewhopper ＠ gmail.com
> 
> 
> 
>> On 2012/10/26, at 6:21, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna ＠ gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Congratulations to Venka, and the whole OSGeo-Japan community!
>>> 
>>> -jeff
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> 
>>> Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan was honored today with the 2012 Sol Katz Award
>>> for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software during the inaugural
>>> session of the FOSS4G-India 2012 (http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/foss4gindia/)
>>> conference in Hyderabad, India. The
>>> award was presented by Ravi Kumar and Vundavallu Aruna Kumar, Member of
>>> Parliament.  Venka received a memento on behalf of the OSGeo-India Chapter.
>>> Venka's dedication to FOSS4G and his community work around the world,
>>> promoting open source geospatial, is second to none.  He has been
>>> involved in OSGeo since the foundation was formed in 2006, and we are
>>> lucky to have such a strong global voice in him.  The OSGeo foundation
>>> wishes to thank Venka for his wonderful dedication.
>>> 
>>> Background
>>> 
>>> The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software is
>>> awarded annually by OSGeo to individuals who have demonstrated
>>> leadership in the GFOSS community. Recipients of the award will have
>>> contributed significantly through their activities to advance open
>>> source ideals in the geospatial realm. 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.
>>> Sol Katz was an early pioneer of GFOSS and left behind a large body of
>>> work in the form of applications, format specifications, and utilities.
>>> In the early 80's, Sol assisted in the development of a public domain
>>> GIS package called MOSS (Map Overlay and Statistical System). This
>>> software was arguably the first open source GIS software in the world.
>>> Sol would later go on to release and maintain PC MOSS. He was also one
>>> of the first involved in public data translator utilities. Utilities
>>> that he developed for converting DEMs and reading SDTS files were
>>> contributed back to the geospatial community, and are still available
>>> today. Sol was also a frequent contributor to many geospatial list
>>> servers, providing much guidance to the geospatial community at large.
>>> Sol Katz's collection of GIS utilities at the BLM is still available at
>>> ftp://ftp.blm.gov/pub/gis/. Sadly, after fighting Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
>>> for almost a decade, Sol died April 23, 1999 in bed. His legacy will
>>> always live on in the GFOSS world.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> 
>>> 
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