OpenUK New Year's Honours

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+Title: OpenUK New Year's Honours
+Slug: openuk-new-years-honours
+Date: 2024-01-15 16:15:49 +00:00
+Tags: columbiform, planet-debian, planet-ubuntu
+
+Apparently I got an [honour](https://openuk.uk/2024-honours-list/) from
+OpenUK.
+
+There are a bunch of people I know on that list.  Chris Lamb and Mark Brown
+are familiar names from [Debian](https://www.debian.org/).  Colin King and
+Jonathan Riddell are people I know from past work in
+[Ubuntu](https://ubuntu.com/).  I've admired David MacIver's work on
+[Hypothesis](https://hypothesis.works/) and Richard Hughes' work on
+[firmware updates](https://fwupd.org/) from afar.  And there are a bunch of
+other excellent projects represented there:
+[OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/),
+[Textualize](https://www.textualize.io/), and my alma mater of
+[Cambridge](https://www.cam.ac.uk/) to name but a few.
+
+My friend Stuart Langridge
+[wrote](https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2021/01/10/openuk-honours/) about
+being on a similar list a few years ago, and I can't do much better than to
+echo it: in particular he wrote about the way the open source development
+community is often at best unwelcoming to people who don't look like Stuart
+and I do.  I can't tell a whole lot about demographic distribution just by
+looking at a list of names, but while these honours still seem to be skewed
+somewhat male, I'm fairly sure they're doing a lot better in terms of gender
+balance than my "home" project of Debian is, for one.  I hope this is a sign
+of improvement for the future, and I'll do what I can to pay it forward.