Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] NEWS: Venkatesh Raghavan Receives 2012 Sol Katz Award
Venka, congratulations! On 25 October 2012 18:00, 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 -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] NEWS: Venkatesh Raghavan Receives 2012 Sol Katz Award
2012/10/25 Mateusz Loskot mate...@loskot.net: Venka, congratulations! same here! Martin -- Martin Landa landa.martin gmail.com * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] NEWS: Venkatesh Raghavan Receives 2012 Sol Katz Award
+1 congratulation. F On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Martin Landa landa.mar...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/10/25 Mateusz Loskot mate...@loskot.net: Venka, congratulations! same here! Martin -- Martin Landa landa.martin gmail.com * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa ___ 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] NEWS: Venkatesh Raghavan Receives 2012 Sol Katz Award
Congratulations!!! :-) On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Frans Thamura fr...@meruvian.org wrote: +1 congratulation. F On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Martin Landa landa.mar...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/10/25 Mateusz Loskot mate...@loskot.net: Venka, congratulations! same here! Martin -- Martin Landa landa.martin gmail.com * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa ___ 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 -- Margherita DI LEO Postdoctoral Researcher European Commission - DG JRC Forest Resources and Climate I-21020 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261 Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 margherita.di-...@jrc.ec.europa.eu ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] NEWS: Venkatesh Raghavan Receives 2012 Sol Katz Award
Congratulations!! On 2012/10/26, at 2:00, 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] NEWS: Venkatesh Raghavan Receives 2012 Sol Katz Award
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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] NEWS: Venkatesh Raghavan Receives 2012 Sol Katz Award
Venka, Congratulations !!! Maria Def. Quota Mateusz Loskot mate...@loskot.net: Venka, congratulations! On 25 October 2012 18:00, 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 -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] NEWS: Venkatesh Raghavan Receives 2012 Sol Katz Award
Congratulations Venka! Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:07:19 +0200 From: nicolas.bo...@gmail.com To: vas...@geo-spatial.org CC: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] NEWS: Venkatesh Raghavan Receives 2012 Sol Katz Award Congratulations Venka ! 2012/10/26 Vasile Craciunescu vas...@geo-spatial.org 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 ___ 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Geospatial Data Award
At the last annual meeting of the OSGeo California Chapter, chapter members decided to move forward with the creation of the Open Geospatial Data Award. This award will be given to one (1) organization each year in California. The award will recognize the organization's efforts to promote open access to geospatial data. I thought this concept might appeal to other local chapters, so I wanted to post our chapter's discussion about the award selection criteria here. I'm proposing the nominees for the award be scored on the folowing criteria: 1) The data is released without: - Restrictions on its use. - Requirements for indemnification (duty to defend). - Restrictions on distribution. - Restrictions on modification. - Requirement for monetary compensation. 2) The data is easily accessible. 3) Data is high quality: - The data is regularly updated. - The data is complete. - The data is well documented (metadata). - The data is reasonably accurate and precise. Not every organization nominated will necessarily do perfectly in each of these categories. I imagine we will need to come up with some point scoring system for our chapter's award selection committee to use. I designed the preliminary award in Inkscape and I can make the SVG available. I didn't incorporate the OSGeo color scheme or logo, but could redesign the award if this wasn't objectionable. We could come up with a standard certificate that could be used by all of the local OSGeo chapters. I imagine we'll want to have the award framed before we deliver it to the selected organization. I think this is a great opportunity to recognize good behavior on the part of government agencies and other organizations that are promoting open access to quality geospatial data. I also think it is a great marketing opportunity for OSGeo and the local chapters. I'm toying with the idea of presonally donating some volunteer hours to the selected agency, to assist with mapping efforts of technical supporttraining for open source geospatial software. What do you guys think? Landon (AKA: The Sunburned Surveyor) PS - Let me know if this discussion should move to the OSGeo data mailing list. attachment: Award Small.png___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [California] Open Geospatial Data Award
Landon, The criteria seems good, if a bit more detailed than is strictly necessary. I'd suggest not worrying about a point scoring system, and just leave it up to the judges to subjectively score nominees after some discussion. It would be nice if the award included a green OSGeo logo. Presumable we should clarify who the judges are, and open up nominations. I think it would be good to let the open geodata committee know about this effort but it is a chapter activity so here is the right place for detailed discussion. I did mention it to David Bitner (geodata chair) who happened to be in town last weekend for the Google Summer of Code meetings. Best regards, Frank On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Landon Blake sunburned.surve...@gmail.comwrote: At the last annual meeting of the OSGeo California Chapter, chapter members decided to move forward with the creation of the Open Geospatial Data Award. This award will be given to one (1) organization each year in California. The award will recognize the organization's efforts to promote open access to geospatial data. I thought this concept might appeal to other local chapters, so I wanted to post our chapter's discussion about the award selection criteria here. I'm proposing the nominees for the award be scored on the folowing criteria: 1) The data is released without: - Restrictions on its use. - Requirements for indemnification (duty to defend). - Restrictions on distribution. - Restrictions on modification. - Requirement for monetary compensation. 2) The data is easily accessible. 3) Data is high quality: - The data is regularly updated. - The data is complete. - The data is well documented (metadata). - The data is reasonably accurate and precise. Not every organization nominated will necessarily do perfectly in each of these categories. I imagine we will need to come up with some point scoring system for our chapter's award selection committee to use. I designed the preliminary award in Inkscape and I can make the SVG available. I didn't incorporate the OSGeo color scheme or logo, but could redesign the award if this wasn't objectionable. We could come up with a standard certificate that could be used by all of the local OSGeo chapters. I imagine we'll want to have the award framed before we deliver it to the selected organization. I think this is a great opportunity to recognize good behavior on the part of government agencies and other organizations that are promoting open access to quality geospatial data. I also think it is a great marketing opportunity for OSGeo and the local chapters. I'm toying with the idea of presonally donating some volunteer hours to the selected agency, to assist with mapping efforts of technical supporttraining for open source geospatial software. What do you guys think? Landon (AKA: The Sunburned Surveyor) PS - Let me know if this discussion should move to the OSGeo data mailing list. ___ California mailing list califor...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/california -- ---+-- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmer...@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush| Geospatial Software Developer ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] NEWS: Venkatesh Raghavan Receives 2012 Sol Katz Award
Venka-sensei, Congratulations!! (2012/10/26 2:00), Jeff McKenna 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 -- -- OSGeo.JP 運営委員 http://www.osgeo.jp -- 応用技術株式会社 エンジニアリング本部 防災･環境解析部 情報システム課 林 博文 haya...@apptec.co.jp 〒531-0074 大阪市北区本庄東1-1-10 RISE88 6F Tel: 06-6373-6121 Fax: 06-6373-6126 -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] NEWS: Venkatesh Raghavan Receives 2012 Sol Katz Award
Congratulations Venka for getting the Soltz Katz Award ! Congratulations to OSGeo for making this choice, choosing the place and an event which fit just perfectly i feel. Gérald Fenoy gerald.fe...@geolabs.fr Le 25 oct. 2012 à 19:00, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com a écrit : -- 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
