Hello, After much discussion, a secret committee has made the following announcement:
----------------------------------------- Minh Van Nguyen is an integral part of the Sage development effort. He is awarded the 2010 Spies Development Prize in recognition of his code contributions, release management, support for new users and outstanding work on documentation. Minh's mathematical interests are primarily in discrete mathematics and he has contributed substantial new code and fixes to the Sage library, especially for cryptography and graph theory. Minh assumed release management duties in Summer 2009 and has diligently performed this difficult task with calm and goodwill. The build system and documentation of the release cycle have greatly benefited from his involvement. Present in the sage-devel IRC channel at all hours, he welcomes newcomers and patiently helps with the most basic questions about mathematics, syntax and programming, in addition to frequenting the forums. His meticulous work on documentation is legendary within the Sage community. Doctests, tutorials, manuals and web pages have all benefited from his detailed work and suggestions for major improvements and innovations. His release tours are useful, accurate and informative chronicles of Sage development. For his consistently conscientious commitment to Sage development, Minh Nguyen is the recipient of the 2010 Spies Development Prize. This award carries a prize of $500 from the Sage Foundation (thanks to Jaap Spies). -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
