Re: It's time again for pants nominations

[Josh Triplett <josh joshtriplett org>]

On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 02:15:35PM +0100, Karen Sandler wrote:
> > * Sriram Ramkrishna for his community work, which is a list too long to
> > summarize here
>
> +1, and just to be effusive about why... Sri has continually contributed to
> GNOME's PR, bringing life to the engagement team and looking out for
> newcomers generally. He's always enthusiastic and the fact that he's
> maintained this for so many years in the project is incredible. He's willing
> to do the work that other people aren't - he's spend countless time at GNOME
> booths, writing GNOME materials, and running interference for the project.
>
> On a very personal note, Sri took the time to be present on so many hate
> threads about GNOME, OPW about me, bringing irrefutable truth (with back-up
> links) when the internet was full of lies, exaggerations and threats.
> Without him and other GNOME volunteers who jumped into the fray on multiple
> occasions, I surely would have left free software.

Hear hear. I'd like to support this nomination as well.

Sri has also organized LAS GNOME, coordinated the action against
Groupon's use of the GNOME name, and numerous other things.