Jeroen Demeyer has provided excellent service to the Sage community as release manager, starting with Version 4.6.1 in January 2011, just five months after his first code contribution. He has continued to contribute significant code to the Sage library in the area of number theory, including over forty contributions related to the fundamental Sage package of PARI.
Jeroen is everything the Sage community could ask for in a release manager. He is a trusted custodian of the code and has built an impressive system for frequent beta and final releases. He works carefully with developers and users to balance the priorities of fast-paced cutting-edge development, backwards compatibility, portability, and high-quality software. During his tenure as release manager, he has earned great respect while making difficult decisions as he shaped the Sage that the world sees. His efficient, timely, fair and knowledgeable work has won him the admiration of the Sage development community and has rendered a great service to the much larger user community. For his conscientious and technically excellent work as Sage release manager, and his significant contributions to the Sage library, Jeroen Demeyer is awarded the 2013 Spies Prize. Please join me in congratulating Jeroen! -- The 2013 Spies Prize Committee -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
