[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [OSGeo-Announce] Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software - Call for Nominations
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 warmer...@pobox.com To: annou...@lists.osgeo.org 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 solkatzaw...@osgeo.org 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 Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan
I have the honor of nominating Venkatesh Raghavan[1] for the 2012 Sol Katz Award. I would classify Venka as the “builder” of all things FOSS4G. It was Venka who created the term “FOSS4G” back in 2004, using it as the name of an international event in Thailand, and since then he has promoted Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics all around the world. Venka has also been directly involved in OSGeo since its inception, in fact he was on the first OSGeo Board of Directors from 2006 to 2007. He is still very active on the Board mailing list, and often shares his broad experience with the OSGeo Board members. A professor at Osaka City University in Japan, Venka constantly encourages his students to leverage FOSS4G in all of their research. His students and research teams have improved FOSS software with international character support and translations for projects such as MapServer, GRASS, and QuantumGIS. Venka actively travels around the world promoting FOSS4G, and works closely with various international event committees each year for such events as GIS-IDEAS in Vietnam, FOSS4G-Japan, and FOSS4G-India. In 2010 Venka was awarded a Guest Professorship at the China University of Mining and Technology in Beijing for his “Outstanding contribution to Open Source Geospatial Technologies”. As you can see his FOSS4G reach is world-wide. Many people have been touched by his passion. He is a “boots on the ground” kind of a guy, who is a master at connecting geospatial communities. Many of us all around the world have grown our careers and skills through his advice. I believe Venka would be an excellent recipient for the Sol Katz Award. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Venkatesh_Raghavan -Jeff McKenna OSGeo Board member/friend ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan
I second the nominating Venkatesh Raghavan for the 2012 SolKatz Award. I agree with Jeff. Venka is the inspiration behind FOSS GIS sweeping across Asia and much of the world. I have known him from the very First FOSS GIS conference in Asia, and he encouraged us resulting in the FOSS workshop in the Geological Survey of India in 2005. He continues to physically visit most of the places where 'FOSSGIS is in action', and connects to young researchers readily. The projects he promotes are the very building blocks of our FOSS GIS initiative the world over. His contributions in FOSS GIS for Geologists, like 3-D models are unique. In short Venka is the leading light for FOSS GIS in Asia and the world. V.Ravi Kumar Friend /Fellow Geologist (Charter member of OSGeo, Ex Board Member, Joint Secy OSGeo India) * * Development of SISGeM-An Online System for 3D Geologic Modeling An Online System for 3D Geologic Modeling -. Tatsuya Nemoto*, Venkatesh Raghavan**, Shinji Masumoto*, Kiyoji Shiono*. * Department of Geosciences ... Ravi Kumar From: Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com To: solkatzaw...@osgeo.org solkatzaw...@osgeo.org Cc: osgeo discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 8:17 PM Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan I have the honor of nominating Venkatesh Raghavan[1] for the 2012 Sol Katz Award. I would classify Venka as the “builder” of all things FOSS4G. It was Venka who created the term “FOSS4G” back in 2004, using it as the name of an international event in Thailand, and since then he has promoted Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics all around the world. Venka has also been directly involved in OSGeo since its inception, in fact he was on the first OSGeo Board of Directors from 2006 to 2007. He is still very active on the Board mailing list, and often shares his broad experience with the OSGeo Board members. A professor at Osaka City University in Japan, Venka constantly encourages his students to leverage FOSS4G in all of their research. His students and research teams have improved FOSS software with international character support and translations for projects such as MapServer, GRASS, and QuantumGIS. Venka actively travels around the world promoting FOSS4G, and works closely with various international event committees each year for such events as GIS-IDEAS in Vietnam, FOSS4G-Japan, and FOSS4G-India. In 2010 Venka was awarded a Guest Professorship at the China University of Mining and Technology in Beijing for his “Outstanding contribution to Open Source Geospatial Technologies”. As you can see his FOSS4G reach is world-wide. Many people have been touched by his passion. He is a “boots on the ground” kind of a guy, who is a master at connecting geospatial communities. Many of us all around the world have grown our careers and skills through his advice. I believe Venka would be an excellent recipient for the Sol Katz Award. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Venkatesh_Raghavan -Jeff McKenna OSGeo Board member/friend ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan
I think there is not much more to add to what Jeff and Ravi have already said. I also second the nominating Venkatesh Raghavan for the 2012 SolKatz Award. Thanks to Venka there is today strong FOSS4G community in Asia (and also in South Osaka ;-) Daniel On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.comwrote: I second the nominating Venkatesh Raghavan for the 2012 SolKatz Award. I agree with Jeff. Venka is the inspiration behind FOSS GIS sweeping across Asia and much of the world. I have known him from the very First FOSS GIS conference in Asia, and he encouraged us resulting in the FOSS workshop in the Geological Survey of India in 2005. He continues to physically visit most of the places where 'FOSSGIS is in action', and connects to young researchers readily. The projects he promotes are the very building blocks of our FOSS GIS initiative the world over. His contributions in FOSS GIS for Geologists, like 3-D models are unique. In short Venka is the leading light for FOSS GIS in Asia and the world. V.Ravi Kumar Friend /Fellow Geologist (Charter member of OSGeo, Ex Board Member, Joint Secy OSGeo India) - - Development of SISGeM-An Online System for *3D* Geologic *Modeling*http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.11.9970rep=rep1type=pdf An Online System for *3D* Geologic *Modeling* -. Tatsuya Nemoto*, * Venkatesh* *Raghavan***, Shinji Masumoto*, Kiyoji Shiono*. * Department of Geosciences *...* -- *From:* Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com *To:* solkatzaw...@osgeo.org solkatzaw...@osgeo.org *Cc:* osgeo discuss@lists.osgeo.org *Sent:* Monday, September 17, 2012 8:17 PM *Subject:* [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan I have the honor of nominating Venkatesh Raghavan[1] for the 2012 Sol Katz Award. I would classify Venka as the “builder” of all things FOSS4G. It was Venka who created the term “FOSS4G” back in 2004, using it as the name of an international event in Thailand, and since then he has promoted Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics all around the world. Venka has also been directly involved in OSGeo since its inception, in fact he was on the first OSGeo Board of Directors from 2006 to 2007. He is still very active on the Board mailing list, and often shares his broad experience with the OSGeo Board members. A professor at Osaka City University in Japan, Venka constantly encourages his students to leverage FOSS4G in all of their research. His students and research teams have improved FOSS software with international character support and translations for projects such as MapServer, GRASS, and QuantumGIS. Venka actively travels around the world promoting FOSS4G, and works closely with various international event committees each year for such events as GIS-IDEAS in Vietnam, FOSS4G-Japan, and FOSS4G-India. In 2010 Venka was awarded a Guest Professorship at the China University of Mining and Technology in Beijing for his “Outstanding contribution to Open Source Geospatial Technologies”. As you can see his FOSS4G reach is world-wide. Many people have been touched by his passion. He is a “boots on the ground” kind of a guy, who is a master at connecting geospatial communities. Many of us all around the world have grown our careers and skills through his advice. I believe Venka would be an excellent recipient for the Sol Katz Award. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Venkatesh_Raghavan -Jeff McKenna OSGeo Board member/friend ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Georepublic UG Georepublic Japan eMail: daniel.ka...@georepublic.de Web: http://georepublic.de ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
