Congratulations Alyssa, Angelos and Aiden for your Google's Open Source Peer Bonus award. This cool award enables Google employees to recognize and thank a few valued open source contributors. It includes a token financial contribution - enough to take the family out for dinner at a nice restaurant.
Alyssa Rock
Alyssa has played a pivotal role in growing and expanding, The Good Docs Project. She has been doing this by:
- Being an excellent technical writer, prolifically writing quality material for the project.
- Reaching out at conferences and related events, advocating for the project, and attracting scores of new contributors.
- Pro-actively helping establish a very supportive and inclusive culture, leading by example, being incredibly warm and encouraging in helping to onboard people, and writing our code-of-conduct.
- Stepping up to do much of the grunt work to establish community processes.
- Doing the many other small things that help make an open source project successful.
Angelos Tzotsos
Angelos has been a lynch pin contributor to many of the geospatial open source projects. Most notably, he is one of the primary coordinators of the OSGeo-Live linux distribution of open source geospatial software, supporting the 50+ projects represented to get the software up to scratch and compiling on the distribution. He is very competent, always humble, very wise, always supportive of others, and very effective at building open source communities. Notably, he has been voted onto the board of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.
Aidan Doherty
Aidan has been a steady and reliable contributor to The Good Docs Project, taking on core background tasks, like community building (kicking off an unofficial welcoming committee for new members), and setting up a base template working group (from which all of the rest of our project templates will depend.) He takes on the unglamorous but important work which makes an open source project successful.
