Congratulations Mike! Well-deserved and thanks for the great work. On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 8:14 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I've written the official citation for Mike Hansen who won the 2009 > Spies Sage Development prize. > > The 2009 Spies Sage Development Prize ($500) is awarded to > Michael Hansen for his work on redesigning the Sage documentation > system to use Sphinx, porting Sage's symbolics to Pynac, and his > massive contributions to the combinatorics codebase, which led to the > MuPAD-combinat community moving over to Sage. Over the last 3 years, > Hansen has also done extensive work refactoring the Sage notebook, > fixing bugs all over Sage, writing documentation, and restructing old > code. He has been an active leader in the Sage community, helping to > organize and participate in numerous Sage Days workshops, refereeing > hundreds of patches, and actively supporting users on the mailing > lists. Hansen's work on Sage consistently combines a humble and kind > demeanor with a brilliant knowledge of the Python eco-system. > > > The Spies Sage Development Prize is an annual award worth $500 that > will be given to a person who makes major and inspiring contributions > to the development of the Sage Mathematical Software System. The goal > of the prize is to acknowledge the recipient and to encourage him or > her to continue to do excellent development work on Sage. It is funded > by donations to the Sage Foundation by Jaap Spies, and cannot be > awarded to the same person twice. > > http://www.sagemath.org/development-prize.html > > Harald -- can you update the webpage? > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > > >
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