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Hi David,<br>
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That's very secondary to our aim here. I think this is a good way of
remembering Malcolm and his great work in our community. We'll chat
to the DSF and if they'd like to recognise us they are more than
welcome to, but it is their prize.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Josh<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25/09/13 10:54, David Lloyd wrote:<br>
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Would a fund donator of this size (which may be large or small, I
don't have the info on this and am quite aware that 'size' is
relative :P) be eligible to be listed as a sponsor or donor? Does
the fund work this way?
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<div>On 25/09/2013, at 8:24 AM, Joshua Hesketh <<a
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi guys,<br>
<br>
The council was aware of the Memorial Prize and discussed
it last night in our teleconf.<br>
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From our draft minutes: <br>
MOTION by Joshua Hesketh that Linux Australia support the
Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize to the value of $AUD1500
on the understanding that funding for future years for the
Prize would be assessed on a case by case basis. SECONDED
by Kathy Reid. Passed unanimously. <br>
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Cheers,<br>
Josh<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25/09/13 08:44, Michael
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<div>I agree. It would be good to recognise Malcolm's
efforts in our community in this way.</div>
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<div>Michael...</div>
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Michael Davies <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Rackspace Australia</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at
7:14 AM, Mary Gardiner <span dir="ltr"><<a
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href="mailto:mary@puzzling.org"
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all,<br>
<br>
The Django Software Foundation has announced the
Malcolm Tredinnick<br>
Memorial Prize, in honour of Malcolm and
remembering his death in March:<br>
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"""<br>
Malcolm Tredinnick joined the Django project as
a core developer in<br>
early 2006. He was deeply involved in many part
of Django - most<br>
notably, the ORM, but many other internals bear
his fingerprints.<br>
Django’s support for unicode, and autoescaping
in templates can both be<br>
almost entirely attributed to Malcolm.<br>
<br>
But his contributions weren't just code. He was
also a prolific<br>
communicator. He logged thousands of messages in
django-users, helping<br>
people learn Django, sharing his expertise
freely and openly. He also<br>
logged thousands of messages in
django-developers, helping shape the<br>
framework we all use today[…]<br>
<br>
With Malcolm’s memory in mind, the Django
Software Foundation is proud<br>
to announce that with this blessing of his
family, we will be<br>
establishing an award in Malcolm’s name.<br>
<br>
The award will be a monetary prize, awarded
annually, to the person who<br>
best exemplifies the spirit of Malcolm’s work -
someone who welcomes,<br>
supports and nurtures newcomers; freely gives
feedback and assistance to<br>
others, and helps to grow the community. The
hope is that the recipient<br>
of the award will use the award stipend as a
contribution to travel to a<br>
community event -- a DjangoCon, a PyCon, a
sprint -- and continue in<br>
Malcolm’s footsteps.<br>
"""<br>
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target="_blank">https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/sep/16/announcing-malcolm-tredinnick-memorial-prize/</a><br>
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Since Malcolm was a long-time Australian Free
Software community member,<br>
in particular attending and speaking at LCA
several times as well as<br>
PyCon AU, I'd like to propose that LA make a
donation to this fund, of a<br>
size that suits Council's budget.<br>
<br>
This isn't really a grant request in the normal
sense (<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://linux.org.au/projects/grants"
target="_blank">http://linux.org.au/projects/grants</a>
) but I'm sending this to this list<br>
for member feedback in the same spirit.<br>
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I guess the major negative I can see is that
while Australians would be<br>
eligible to receive the prize, realistically
it's likely that the funds<br>
would be awarded to someone elsewhere.<br>
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Note re conflicts of interest: I am not a member
of the Django Software<br>
Foundation, nor did the DSF ask me to make this
request (in fact, they<br>
don't know about it). I'm not a Django
contributor or community member<br>
and am therefore exceptionally unlikely to
benefit personally from the<br>
prize in the foreseeable future.<br>
<br>
-Mary<br>
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