I am honored to be a recipient of this year’s Google O’Reilly Open Source Award for being the “best community amplifier” for my work with the microformats, Spread Firefox and BarCamp communities! (See the original call for nominations).
Inexplicably I was absent when they handed out the award, hanging out with folks at a Python/Django/jQuery drinkup down the street, but I’m humbled all the same… especially since I work on a day to day basis with such high caliber and incredible people without whom none of these projects would exist, would not have found success, and most importantly, would never have ever mattered in the first place.
Also thanks to @bmevans, @TheRazorBlade, @kveton, @anandiyer, @donpdonp, @dylanjfield, @bytebot, @mtrichardson, @galoppini for your tweets of congratulations!
And our work continues. So lucky we are, to have such good work, and such good people to work with.
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Congrats
What an aptly-named award — congrats! Well-deserved. Keep amplifying.
You were supposed to win the “Fail Whale Hater of the Year Award”, but the plaque never arrived from the engravers.
Seriously, congratulations, you deserve it.
Congratulations Chris! I’ll be working at Vidoop in a couple of weeks and look forward to meeting and working with you.
Hi Chris, congrats! This is awesome.
Brad
Congratulations, Chris!
As I tweated, amplifier is an awesome name for an award to win! You go up to eleven!
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