If we have not gone too far on our seed planting metaphor for the 2025 Open Education Awards for Excellence, please bear with our need to adjust some of the timelines for review and sending nominee certificates. Indeed, the garden is quite full and we need some more time to process the nearly 200 nominations and to build out a brand new system of review by our committee of former awardees. We appreciate the excitement we hear in messages to the awards contact address and ask for patience as we adjust the 2025 OEAwards timeline: The Review Committee will start…
I hope more folks read this update on the OEAwards, and more so for what I slid in as a call for ongoing acts of open recognition via a very nifty tool created for us by @VisualThinkery
Awards are a BIG recognition, they take time and effort to write a nomination, and generally focus on important significant contributions. But what about something that is easy to do to give a recognition for a smaller scale action or support by a colleague or someone else in the community? Just an expression of appreciation.
Who would you give a “tip of a hat” to? Do you have 10 minutes to spare to make a remix?
Here is my hat tip to @paulhibbitts for all his contributions not only creating Docsify-This web publishing tool, but continually improving it, and here, generously offering support to another person or organization interesting in making use of it.
And specially for Paul, my hat tip includes Markdown
If you send to someone, as I will do here, ask Paul to consider “hat tipping it forward” and creating a remix to thank someone else (except it can’t be me!) as a way to spread the idea.
Thanks for the very kind Hat Tip @cogdog! And with a splash of Markdown at that. What a cool idea hat tip remixes are @VisualThinkery, thank you.
Abiding by your rules I won’t nominate you back😉 but rather nominate the folks behind not one but two other open-source Markdown publishing projects that are valuable contributors to the open publishing ecosystem.
My first “tip of a hat” is to Andy Miller, the originator of the Markdown-based Grav CMS, who has also over the years helped support my efforts to further share out Grav as an option for open education and publishers through various pre-built Grav Skeleton projects.
My second “tip of a hat” is to Luffy Lu and Koy Zhuang, long-time maintainers and contributors to Docsify.js.org who have been instrumental in getting a release candidate of Docsify v5 out the door this year. Docsify does all the heavy lifting for my Docsify-This project, as the name likely implies! You can also find the friendly Docsify logo right on the home page of Docsify-This, exactly as it should be!
