[Israel.pm] White Camel Nomination :: Gabor Szabo (szabgab)

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi!

I'd like to nominate Gábor Szabó (the Hugarian-Israeli Perl programmer, not 
the Jazz musician) for his contributions to the Israeli and Global Perl 
Communities. See:

* http://www.szabgab.com/

* http://search.cpan.org/%7Eszabgab/

Gabor Szabo is responsible for the fact that the Israeli Perl community, and
that of other dynamic languages has took off. So far he:

1. Set up an alternate mailing list, which proved to be more active - 
perl at perl.org.il.

2. Set up a tradition of monthly Israeli Perl meetings, which have turned out 
to be popular.

3. Organised 3 YAPC::Israel conferences - YAPC::Israel::2003, 
YAPC::Israel::2004 and YAPC::Israel::2005 and an OSDC::Israel conference - 
OSDC::Israel::2006.

4. He helped organise the Hungarian Perl Workshops in Hungary, and a Hungarian 
YAPC.

5. He set up CPAN Forum - http://www.cpanforum.com/ - as a way to get help and 
ask questions with individual CPAN distributions. Also allows users to tag 
their modules using delicious-like tags.

6. His commmercial venture - http://www.pti.co.il/ - has been responsible for 
training material and sessions for Perl and other FOSS technologies, as well 
as general FOSS development and support. Some of its material has been made 
available online free-of-charge.

7. He has written many weblog entries, comments, emails and stuff about 
communal and technical issues.

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Aside from all that, he has done numerous contributions of code, and 
documentation.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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