Just a reminder that the nominations for the Sol Katz Award will close end-of-day on 8 July.
Please see below for more information. On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 2:34 PM Victoria Rautenbach <victoria.rautenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > News item by Jeff McKenna > Published at > https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/sol-katz-award-for-geospatial-free-and-open-source-software-call-for-nominations-2/ > > The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations for the > 2022 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software. > > The Sol Katz Award for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) > will be given to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the FOSS4G > 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 FOSS4G 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 FOSS4G 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 . > > Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to solkatzaward at lists > dot osgeo dot org with a description of the reasons for this nomination > (after sending, please wait for the moderator to accept your message). > Nominations will be accepted until end-of-day July 8th Anywhere on Earth. A > recipient will be decided from the nomination list by the OSGeo selection > committee. > > The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software > will be announced virtually during the FOSS4G 2022 event in Florence, Italy. > 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: > > 2021: Malena Libman > 2020: Anita Graser > 2019: Even Rouault > 2018: Astrid Emde > 2017: Andrea Aime > 2016: Jeff McKenna > 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 2022: > > Jeff McKenna (chair) > Frank Warmerdam > Markus Neteler > Steve Lime > Paul Ramsey > Sophia Parafina > Daniel Morissette > Helena Mitasova > Martin Davis > Venkatesh Raghavan > Arnulf Christl > Gary Sherman > Maria Brovelli > Andrea Aime > Astrid Emde > Even Rouault > Anita Graser > Ariel Anthieni _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
