[pydotorg-www] Frank Willison Award Recipient for 2011 - Georg Brandl

Pat Campbell patcam at python.org
Fri Mar 30 22:12:02 CEST 2012


To:  pydotorg:

Could you please add the bio information to the link below for the 2011
Frank Willison Award
recipient Georg Brandl:

http://www.python.org/community/awards/frank-willison/

"The 2011 Frank Willison Memorial Award for Services to the Python
Community has been awarded to Georg Brandl.

Georg has been a core contributor to CPython since
2005<http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/65c95ad672ae/>,
contributing bug fixes for compiler internals and modules such as
pdb<http://docs.python.org/library/pdb.html>.
His most widely known contributions are to Python's documentation, through
writing as well as by creating and maintaining the
Sphinx<http://sphinx.pocoo.org/>tool chain for converting
reStructuredText<http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html>input
files to more easily consumed formats such as HTML and PDF.

The video announcing Georg's
award<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I708QrOlM74>at OSCON
2011 is available on YouTube.
About Georg Georg is a PhD student of Physics. He works at the Munich
research reactor slash neutron source on magnetism, researching novel
materials for the computing of tomorrow. He uses Python to control
experiments consisting of dozens of individual devices, and for teaching
other scientists how to do so efficiently. When he is not working on
Python-related projects, Georg likes to cycle and to cook."

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thanks
Pat

-- 
Pat Campbell
PSF Administrator/Secretary
patcam at python.org
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