Mithrandir writes:
“XOOPS’er of the Year”… That is quite a predicate to get slapped on your person.

There are 5 categories and I was honoured to be nominated in four of them – and I was deeply touched by the descriptions of why people nominated me, although there was the occasional character-building truth (*grumbles something about having to look up the word ‘curmudgeon’ in the dictionary*)

5 categories, 4 nominations, 3 wins. I can only say that it was deeply unexpected. The XOOPS’er of the Year competition is a community award and therefore I cannot just sit and accept three prizes when so many deserving people get nothing. I have therefore decided to not accept the award for “Best Code Contributor” as most of my contributing work has merely been performing manual tasks such as implementing patches and fixing bugs that others have found and developed the code for. Besides, Onokazu has earned this award just as much as I have.

I have also decided that the “Overall XOOPSer of the Year” award is not one I can accept. If Herko can do so much for keeping things together on xoops.org and in the XOOPS project in general and *not* get an award – then the world is just not right. Herko deserves the recognition of an award and I feel that “Overall XOOPSer of the Year” is just the right award for him.

The Community Supporter award, I keep. I spend a lot of my time helping – or trying to help – people on xoops.org and dev.xoops.org and it means a lot to me that you have voted me the Best Community Supporter. I am deeply grateful for this award and will treasure it for a long time.
My Preccssccioussssss.

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