Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award 2025 - nominate exemplary community members here!

[viktoriamagyar]

After the passing of our beloved Jean-Thierry to honor him, keep his memory alive, and foremost, inspire people to do good work for the community, we launched an award named after him for exceptional community members. Every year, the community votes on who has done the most for Orchard Core.

It's your turn to nominate a community member! In a message below, add somebody (@mention them) who you think has done most for Orchard Core, with a sentence explaining what they've done. This can entail activities in the form of e.g. code contributions (including documentation), help under issues and discussion, evangelization outreach, community management, or anything else. However, it needs to be public and tangible.

Nominations are open until the 29th midnight, Anywhere on Earth. After that, we'll vote on the nominees secretly. The winner is then announced at the Orchard Harvest conference on the 11th of November.

What does the winner get?

The award is foremost about recognition. However, the community provides some perks too:

• Mention of each year's winner in the docs.
• Post about it under the Orchard Core social media.
• Lombiq provides free custom domain usage on DotNest, publicizing the winner in Lombiq's media, and a year of sponsorship similar to other open source contributors and projects.
• If your company works with Orchard Core and would like to incentivize community members, please let us know what else you can add!

[agriffard]

This year, I nominate @MikeAlhayek for his constants efforts to improve Orchard Core.
He also he helped a lot to organize the last year Harvest conference in Las Vegas.

It is hard to choose only one name. If I could pick more contributors, I would add @hishamco, @gvkries , too many people from the @Lombiq team (@Piedone , @BenedekFarkas , @viktoriamagyar ) and @sebastienros of course.
Thank you everyone for your hard work.

(Also, don't forget renovatebot and copilot for their support ;-) )

[hishamco]

(Also, don't forget renovatebot and copilot for their support ;-) )

Don't forget our previous previous bot :)

[gvkries]

I agree with that, @MikeAlhayek has done a lot for OC in the past few years. I still feel like a newbie, don't vote for me ;-)

[hishamco]

It would be nice to mention the Orchard Core Ecosystem because there are projects and repositories other than Orchard Core that can impact the community; otherwise, the nomination will go to one of the active OC contributors for sure

[Piedone]

Just as before, all community contributions matter. So Orchard Core Contrib too :).

[hishamco]

I didn't mean Orchard Core Contrib only :)

OrchardCore.Commerce

Lombiq.OrchardCore repositories

and much more

[Piedone]

Those too :).

[hishamco]

I'm not sure if there are many, that's why it's good to mention Orchard Core-related repos in the community section in our docs

[Piedone]

I'd like to nominate @gvkries.

[hishamco]

Georg is one of the active members this year

[MikeAlhayek]

@gvkries for sure

[sebastienros]

I nominate @copilot even though many PR weren't merged

[hishamco]

Very good candidate :)

[Skrypt]

I vote for @sebastienros using @copilot 😉

[hishamco]

Copilot is a good candidate :)

[BenedekFarkas]

I'll go ahead and nominate @Piedone (I know, shocking!), I heard he knows a thing or two about Orchard...

[Piedone]

What's an orchid?

[hishamco]

I'll go ahead and nominate @Piedone (I know, shocking!), I heard he knows a thing or two about Orchard...

I was thinking about that too :) Believe it or not, if the JT award is for both individuals and companies, I will nominate Lombiq for the massive work they did for the community

[hishamco]

@viktoriamagyar, should the nomination be done here or in a form like last year

[viktoriamagyar]

@hishamco, the nomination was discussed in a GitHub thread similar to this one last year. The vote will be in a form that will be available in the next week, two weeks before the event.

[hishamco]

Nominations are open until the 29th midnight, Anywhere on Earth.

This confuses me :)

[viktoriamagyar]

You can nominate a community member here until the 29th. After that, we'll vote on the nominees secretly. You will be informed once the secret vote form is available.

[Piedone]

Voting is now open here: #18507.