[SAC] [OSGeo] #1753: News item about Sol Katz Award 2016 - Call for Nominations

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#1753: News item about Sol Katz Award 2016 - Call for Nominations
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 Can someone post the news item below on our website.
 I sent the mail to news_item at osgeo.org on 11 July, 2016,
 but am still to see the news appear on our website.

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 Headline:
 Sol Katz Award 2016 - Call for Nominations

 Related URL
 Title: Sol Katz Award wiki page
 URL: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sol_Katz_Award

 The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations for
 the 2016 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://donate.cancer.org/index.

 Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to
 [mailto:SolKatzAward at osgeo.org SolKatzAward at osgeo.org] with a
 description of the reasons for this nomination.  Nominations will be
 accepted until
 [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=4&year=2016&hour=23&min=59&sec=59
 23:59 UTC on August 4th]. A recipient will be decided from the
 nomination list by an OSGeo designated selection committee.

 The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source
 Software will be announced at the FOSS4G-Bonn event in August. 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:

   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 2016

 Venkatesh Raghavan (chair)
 Frank Warmerdam]
 Markus Neteler]
 Steve Lime
 Paul Ramsey
 Sophia Parafina
 Daniel Morissette
 Helena Mitasova
 Martin Davis
 Arnulf Christl
 Gary Sherman
 Maria Brovelli

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