@OtoKalab @ingrid twitter.com/drpeterloewe is making such collection for the german library (well, basically mostly written and digitized material)

I could give you many names, but best is, you just start with Sol Katz Award list wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sol_Katz_A and move further to OSGeo board members wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_D