[postgis-users] Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and OpenSource Software - Call for Nominations

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On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 03:21:25PM -0700, Craig Miller wrote:
> I'm not sure that was supposed to go to the list.  My apologies.

It's ok for me.
My vote for Frank.

--strk;

> 
> --Craig
> 
> 
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> Miller
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 3:20 PM
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> Subject: RE: [postgis-users] Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and
> OpenSource Software - Call for Nominations
> 
> I'd like to nominate Frank Warmerdam.  His contributions are at the
> foundation of so many of the other projects.  Proj / gdal in particular.  He
> also is unique in that he only programs OSS, rather than being paid by a
> larger organization.
> 
> --Craig
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Paul
> Ramsey
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 3:03 PM
> To: PostGIS Users
> Subject: [postgis-users] Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source
> Software - Call for Nominations
> 
> 
> The organizing committee for the upcoming Open Source Geospatial '05
> conference would like to open nominations for the inaugural Sol Katz 
> Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software.
> 
> The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS)
> will be given 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.
> 
> 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 
> while at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. This early GFOSS 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://www.cancer.org/asp/donate/don_multi_donate.asp?navToScreen=don_1.
> 
> Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to 
> sol.katz.award at gmail.com with a brief description of the reasons for 
> this nomination. Please place "Sol Katz Award" in the subject of the 
> email. Nominations will be accepted until Saturday April 30th @
> midnight. A recipient will be decided from the nomination list by a
> selection committee.
> 
> The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source
> Software will be announced at the Open Source Geospatial conference in 
> June. 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.
> 
> --
> Organizing Committee
> Open Source Geospatial '05
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/mum/mtg2005.html
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