Dear All,
*Requesting nominations for the David A. Hastings Award*
The FOSS4G-Asia 2021 organizing committee is proud to announce the inaugural *David A. Hastings Award* for exceptional contributions to the Free and Open Source Software for Geoinformatics (FOSS4G) community in Asia.
Nominees must have contributed to the spread FOSS4G in academia, government and business, promoted the use of FOSS4G in projects in Asia, or helped localize and customize front-end FOSS4G tools for Asian communities.
The details about the award and nomination process is available at https://www.foss4g-asia.org/2020/awards/
The last date for the nominations is 15th September 2021 (23:59UTC). All nominations should be sent by email to Venkatesh Raghavan at raghavan@osaka-cu.ac.jp. Please use "2021 David A. Hastings Award Nomination" in the subject line.
The 2021 David A. Hastings Award Committee is made up of;
Gerald Fenoy Jeff McKenna Reshma Shrestha V. Ravi Kumar Venkatesh Raghavan (Chair) Yoichi Kajiyama
Best
Venka ----- Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan Osaka City University, Japan