[OSGeo-Discuss] Peer bonus awards for Jo Cook and Jared Morgan

[Cameron Shorter]

Jo Cook and Jared Morgan have been presented with awards for Google's Open
Source Peer Bonus Program
<https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/24623504/7918417621703667863#>.
The award is a recognition and thank you to people who go above and beyond
in their contributions to open source. It also includes a token financial
contribution - enough to take the family out for dinner at a nice
restaurant.

Well done Jo and Jared, you really deserve it:

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Jo is an enabler of open source communities. She commits large chunks of
her volunteer time to working on the hard problems that others don't
tackle. She is someone you can rely upon when needed, and she steps back
when her skill-sets are more valuable elsewhere.

A few highlights of her volunteer activities over the last couple of
decades include:

   - Help set up The Good Docs Project
   <https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/24623504/7918417621703667863#>,
   doing much of the grunt work in setting up open source processes.
   - Mentoring a Season of Docs
   <https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/24623504/7918417621703667863#>
tech
   writer and other community contributors for the GeoNetwork
   <https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/24623504/7918417621703667863#>
    project.
   - Presenting at numerous conferences on topics of open source,
   documentation, and geospatial.
   - Playing lead roles in setting up conferences for the Open Source
   Geospatial foundation
   <https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/24623504/7918417621703667863#>
   .
   - Building the Portable GIS
   <https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/24623504/7918417621703667863#>
distribution
   of Open Source Geospatial software.
   - Serving on the board of the international Open Source Geospatial
   foundation (OSGeo).
   - and more ...

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Jared is a core contributor and community builder within The Good Docs
Project
<https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/24623504/7918417621703667863#>.
As an experienced technical writer, he has contributed to many of our
initial set of writing templates and then helped absorb feedback from our
community. He is well respected and well connected within the technical
writing community, helping to inspire other thought leading technical
writers to come and join us.

This year, 2020, he has signed up as a Season of Docs
<https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/24623504/7918417621703667863#>
mentor
for The Good Docs Project.

In a related activity, he has also helped spread knowledge within the
technical writing community, by co-hosting the Write the Docs podcast
<https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/24623504/7918417621703667863#>.

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Cameron Shorter
Technical Writer, Google


-- 
Cameron Shorter
Technical Writer, Google
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