<div dir="ltr">+1 <div><br></div><div>I agree. It would be good to recognise Malcolm's efforts in our community in this way.</div><div><br></div><div>Michael...</div><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br>Michael Davies <a href="mailto:michael@the-davies.net" target="_blank">michael@the-davies.net</a><br>
Rackspace Australia</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Mary Gardiner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mary@puzzling.org" target="_blank">mary@puzzling.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi 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>
<br>
"""<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>
<br>
<a href="https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/sep/16/announcing-malcolm-tredinnick-memorial-prize/" target="_blank">https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/sep/16/announcing-malcolm-tredinnick-memorial-prize/</a><br>
<br>
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 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>
<br>
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>
<br>
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>
<br>
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