diff --git a/_posts/2019-06-13-bagwell-award-2018.md b/_posts/2019-06-13-bagwell-award-2018.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..981b7aa71 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2019-06-13-bagwell-award-2018.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +--- +category: news +title: "Kenji Yoshida receives community award" +--- + +We are pleased to announce that the Phil Bagwell Memorial Scala Community Award for 2018 has been awarded to [Kenji Yoshida](https://twitter.com/xuwei_k). The award was presented in Lausanne at the outset of [Scala Days](https://scaladays.org/) 2019. + + + +On stage, Eugene Yokota accepted the award on Yoshida-san's behalf. You can watch the ceremony [here](https://scaladays.org/schedule/phil-bagwell-award--closing-panel). (The ceremony also included the 2019 award to Kelley Robinson.) + +And here is a [tribute video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq-43ds0-pY) with remarks from Josh Suereth, Eugene Yokota, Rob Norris, and Miles Sabin. + +## About the winner + +Yoshida-san is known to Scala users as: + +* Long-term maintainer of [scalaz](https://github.com/scalaz/scalaz), the first library to pioneer full support for pure-functional programming in Scala. +* Prominent contributor to Scala 2.13. His many pull requests to the Scala repo were done while he was on parental leave in 2018. +* A ubiquitous presence in pull request queues across the Scala open-source world, in literally hundreds of projects. Taken individually, his contributions are often small, but in aggregate, they are essential to our ecosystem's health. + +Some of Yoshida-san's Japanese-language tweets are available in English translation at [@not_xuwei_k](https://twitter.com/not_xuwei_k). + +## About the award + +The Bagwell Award is named in honor of Phil Bagwell, who passed away in 2012. In a [2012 blog post](https://www.lightbend.com/blog/rip-phil-bagwell), Martin Odersky remembers Phil and his special place in the Scala community. + +The Award Committee consists of previous Award winners (see below). They took [community nominations](https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2019/03/01/phil-bagwell-nominations.html) into consideration. + +Past winners of the award: + +* 2017: [Josh Suereth](https://www.scala-lang.org/news/2017/09/25/bagwell-award-2017.html) +* 2016: [Erik Osheim](https://www.scala-lang.org/news/2016/10/26/bagwell-award-2016.html) +* 2015: [Bill Venners](http://scala-lang.org/news/2015/06/25/bagwell-award-2015.html) +* 2014: [Lalit Pant](https://kojoenv.wordpress.com/2014/09/27/phil-bagwell-award/) +* 2013: [Dick Wall](https://twitter.com/dickwall) diff --git a/_posts/2019-06-13-bagwell-award-2019.md b/_posts/2019-06-13-bagwell-award-2019.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2363e0c3b --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2019-06-13-bagwell-award-2019.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +--- +category: news +title: "Kelley Robinson receives community award" +--- + +We are pleased to announce that the Phil Bagwell Memorial Scala Community Award for 2019 has been awarded to [Kelley Robinson](https://twitter.com/kelleyrobinson). The award was presented in Lausanne at the outset of [Scala Days](https://scaladays.org/) 2019. + + + +You can watch the ceremony [here](https://scaladays.org/schedule/phil-bagwell-award--closing-panel). (The ceremony also included the 2018 award to Kenji Yoshida.) + +And here is a [tribute video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koyufYkatVc) with remarks from Noel Welsh, Yifan Xing, Eugene Yokota, Holden Karau, Rob Norris, and others. + +## About the winner + +Kelley is known to Scala users as: + +* Founder of [ScalaBridge](https://scalabridge.org), a series of + introductory Scala workshops for underrepresented groups, aimed at making + the Scala community more diverse and inclusive. Since its launch in + 2016, ScalaBridge has spread around the globe. +* Co-creator of the [Scala Code of Conduct](https://www.scala-lang.org/conduct/). +* Conference speaker, known for talks such as "Why the Free Monad Isn't + Free", "Demystifying Scala", and "Building a Better Scala Community". +* Developer evangelist at [Twilio](https://www.twilio.com). + +## About the award + +The Bagwell Award is named in honor of Phil Bagwell, who passed away in 2012. In a [2012 blog post](https://www.lightbend.com/blog/rip-phil-bagwell), Martin Odersky remembers Phil and his special place in the Scala community. + +The Award Committee consists of previous Award winners (see below). They took [community nominations](https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2019/03/01/phil-bagwell-nominations.html) into consideration. + +Past winners of the award: + +* 2018: [Kenji Yoshida](https://www.scala-lang.org/news/2019/06/13/bagwell-award-2018.html) +* 2017: [Josh Suereth](https://www.scala-lang.org/news/2017/09/25/bagwell-award-2017.html) +* 2016: [Erik Osheim](https://www.scala-lang.org/news/2016/10/26/bagwell-award-2016.html) +* 2015: [Bill Venners](http://scala-lang.org/news/2015/06/25/bagwell-award-2015.html) +* 2014: [Lalit Pant](https://kojoenv.wordpress.com/2014/09/27/phil-bagwell-award/) +* 2013: [Dick Wall](https://twitter.com/dickwall)