2018 and 2019 Bagwell awards

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+category: news
+title: "Kenji Yoshida receives community award"
+---
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+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.
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+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.)
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+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.
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+## About the winner
+
+Yoshida-san is known to Scala users as:
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+* 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.
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+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.
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+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.
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+Past winners of the award:
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+* 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)

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+category: news
+title: "Kelley Robinson receives community award"
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+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.
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+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.
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+## About the winner
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+Kelley is known to Scala users as:
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+* 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)