From 2e38eca468470d288a0664052dfbe1d7f8c4aca3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Watson Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:17:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] OpenUK New Year's Honours --- content/openuk-honour.md | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/openuk-honour.md diff --git a/content/openuk-honour.md b/content/openuk-honour.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4d210ce7 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/openuk-honour.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +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. -- 2.30.2