From: Jody G. <jod...@gm...> - 2011-05-28 04:20:54
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Hey Guys: Nominations are open again this year: > Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to > Sol...@os... (mailto:Sol...@os...) with a description of the reasons for this > nomination. Nominations will be accepted until 23:59 UTC on *August > 19th* > (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=19&year=2011&hour=23&min=59&sec=59). > 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 on September 16th at the FOSS4G 2011 > conference (http://2011.foss4g.org/) closing plenary in Denver, > Colorado, U.S.A. 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.Can I recommend that people nominate Martin Davis, as in "dr jts", he literally puts the spatial in our open source spatial scene, and I happen to know he will be attending this years foss4g. Cheers, Jody Garnett |