Excellent idea! For me it was good in the early years of sage to contribute some code and give some financial support in the form of the Spies Prize. I'm not in the position now to lineup as a donor, but I probably will for the 2022 version.
Best regards, Jaap Spies On Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 7:15:29 AM UTC+2 wst...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi sage-devel, > > We (Matthias Koeppe and William Stein) would like to propose that we > revive the Annual SageMath Development Prize, which was awarded in > the years 2008–2014 thanks to > donations from Jaap Spies (a retired Dutch mathematician) – see > https://www.sagemath.org/development-prize.html > > To catch up, it would make sense to retroactively award one prize for > each of the years 2015–2021. I’m sure that there would be plenty of > deserving candidates for the prize for each year. There is no specific > donor for the prize money lined up, but from a look at our Open > Collective account balance, I (William) would feel very comfortable > with $250/person using the funds already at hand. > > Continuing the tradition of the prize, the goal is to acknowledge the > work done by the recipient and to encourage them to continue to do > excellent development or community work on SageMath, so it would make > sense for these retroactively awarded prizes to go developers or > community leaders who are still at least somewhat active in the > project today. > > We would ask for 3 or 4 volunteers to form a prize committee that > would be tasked to come up with a list of 7 names. (Anybody > volunteering to be on the committee is recusing themselves from > consideration for the prizes for 2015–2021.) > > Best regards, > > Matthias Koeppe & William Stein > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/3d36bc9f-8deb-45fb-93c4-951130fa80ddn%40googlegroups.com.
