[Edu-sig] Congratulations to Mark Hammond

[kirby urner]

10 June 2015 at 03:39, Brian Curtin:

> It is my pleasure to announce that Mark Hammond has been chosen to
> receive our Distinguished Service Award for his hugely impactful
> contributions to Python on Windows. Through his contributions to
> CPython and via pywin32, Windows would not be the platform it is
> without a lot of his efforts. That was a common enough thought that
> several releases in the 2.x series of Windows installers included a
> special thanks to him.

Congratulations!

I've benefited a lot from Mark's work myself.  Just having Python
go so deeply in Windows helped make it the household name it
is today.

Kirby
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