Congrats, Venka! Vasile
Sent from my mobile device On 25 Oct 2012, at 20:00, Jeff McKenna <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote: > -- > > Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan was honored today with the 2012 Sol Katz Award > for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software during the inaugural > session of the FOSS4G-India 2012 (http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/foss4gindia/) > conference in Hyderabad, India. The > award was presented by Ravi Kumar and Vundavallu Aruna Kumar, Member of > Parliament. Venka received a memento on behalf of the OSGeo-India Chapter. > Venka's dedication to FOSS4G and his community work around the world, > promoting open source geospatial, is second to none. He has been > involved in OSGeo since the foundation was formed in 2006, and we are > lucky to have such a strong global voice in him. The OSGeo foundation > wishes to thank Venka for his wonderful dedication. > > Background > > The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software is > awarded annually by OSGeo 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. 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. > 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. > In the early 80's, Sol assisted in the development of a public domain > GIS package called MOSS (Map Overlay and Statistical System). This > software was arguably the first open source GIS software in the world. > Sol would later go on to release and maintain PC MOSS. He was also one > of the first involved in public data translator utilities. Utilities > that he developed for converting DEMs and reading SDTS files were > contributed back to the geospatial community, and are still available > today. Sol was also a frequent contributor to many geospatial list > servers, providing much guidance to the geospatial community at large. > Sol Katz's collection of GIS utilities at the BLM is still available at > ftp://ftp.blm.gov/pub/gis/. Sadly, after fighting Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma > for almost a decade, Sol died April 23, 1999 in bed. His legacy will > always live on in the GFOSS world. > > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
