Congratulations Mike! On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:18 AM, David Joyner <wdjoy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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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