#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@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@osgeo.org SolKatzAward@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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