the Prize for Excellence in Open Source 2026 is handed out tonight in Brussels by the European Open Source Academy, and it is my honor as president to hand over this award to a truly worthy winner. I am sure you will agree with me once you learn who it is. Tonight.
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@bagder giving it to yourself?🤔 Heard that's what some presidents do😎
@bagder is the 2026 award for mostly-2025 excellence or were we supposed to get all of the excellence into the first couple weeks?
@bagder where’s Linus? 🤨
@bagder It‘s your wife, right?🙃
@aris haha, well I don't think I'm spoiling this too much by saying that I'm not tonight's laureate
@bagder is that a responsibility of last year's awardee, or did they pick you for funsies?
@miketheman in this case I am both the president of EOSA as well as last year's awardee, but I think the idea is that I do this in my role as president.
I presume that if I'm not messing things up too badly I might get to do it again next year... 😁
@bagder I think you might secretly enjoy wearing a suit 😁
Makes sense to have a president present recognition awards for good things!
@miketheman there is a certain James Bond style attraction to this...
@bagder I'm indeed curious, I learnt about the event last week and was tempted to somehow attend, but unfortunately, I have no formal attire with me, only OSS formal (doc martens, plain clothes and laptop with silly colours and stickers).
@kayla I bring my suit to Brussels solely for this purpose! After all, I got this suit in the first place getting an award for my Open Source so I feel good getting to use it more to further shine the light on excellent Open Source people!
@freeman2501 oh... I didn't think about that, but that is a good idea!