Don't forget to nominate your local leader! -jeff
On 12-09-17 10:26 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote: > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open > Source Software - Call for Nominations > Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:39:38 -0700 > From: Frank Warmerdam <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open > nominations for the 2012 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/involved/donate/donateonlinenow/index > > Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to > [email protected] with a description of the reasons for > this nomination. Nominations will be accepted until 23:59 UTC > on September 28th. 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 in early October. 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: > 2011: Martin Davis > 2010: Helena Mitasova > 2009: Daniel Morissette > 2008: Paul Ramsey > 2007: Steve Lime > 2006: Markus Neteler > 2005: Frank Warmerdam > > Selection Committee: > Jeff McKenna (chair) > Daniel Morissette > Frank Warmerdam > Markus Neteler > Steve Lime > Paul Ramsey > Sophia Parafina > Helena Mitasova > Martin Davis _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
