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I won an award from the FSF for my contributions to Emacs
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On 2022-03-19 the Free Software Foundation awarded me the 2021 Award for Outstanding New Free Software Contributor . The award ceremony took place in the context of this year’s LibrePlanet conference, where this video message of mine was shown. What I said: Hello everyone! My name is Protesilaos. Some friends call me “Prot” and you are welcome to do the same. I wish to thank the Free Software Foundation for this award. I was not expecting it, just as I was not expecting to make any kind of contribution to GNU Emacs, given my non-technical background. As I also say in my presentation for LibrePlanet 2022 my background was not tech-related: it was in the humanities and I eventually learnt to program by tinkering with Emacs and all the free software resources that were given to me. So while this award is given to an individual, I think it actually is all about the community. How the community—how all those unsung heroes—have helped a given person achieve certain things. And this is because when I came to Emacs, when I switched to Emacs, when I joined this milieu two-and-a-half years ago I discovered everything I needed. There was high quality documentation, an excellent program in the…
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Protesilaos Stavrou
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