Re: Send us your pants nominations

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Mon, 2016-07-18 at 13:44 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 02:52:09PM -0400, Shaun McCance wrote:
> > GUADEC is coming up soon, and with GUADEC comes the annual Pants
> > Award.
> > Every year, GNOME awards a pair of pants to somebody in recognition
> > of
> > their outstanding contributions. The board will make the final
> > decision
> > on who receives the pants, but we'd love to hear your nominations.
> >
> > The award can be for any kind of contribution to our software or
> > our
> > community. It does not have to be software development work. The
> > only
> > requirements are that the person is attending GUADEC to receive the
> > pants, and that it's not a current or outgoing board member. Not
> > sure
> > if the person fits the requirements? Just nominate! We'll sort it
> > out.
> Is there a list somewhere of past recipients of the award?  A quick
> check turned up individual mentions of the award, but no
> comprehensive
> list.  It seems like gnome.org ought to have such a list somewhere.

There is not, and there should be. I was working on this a while ago,
but got sidetracked. I have a partial list. Ideally, we'd have a nice
page with photos and blurbs on what each of the pants winners did.

--
Shaun