Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award

After the passing of our beloved Jean-Thierry to honor him, keep his memory alive, and foremost, inspire people to do good work for the community, we launched an award named after him for exceptional community members.

Every year, the community votes on who has done the most for Orchard Core. This can entail activities in the form of e.g. code contributions (including documentation), help under issues and discussion, evangelization outreach, community management, or anything else. However, it needs to be public and tangible.

After a public round of nominations, the community votes on the nominees secretly. The winner is then announced at the annual Orchard Harvest conference.

Perks of winning the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award

The award is foremost about recognition. However, the community provides some perks too:

Mention of each year's winner in the docs above.
Post about it under the Orchard Core social media.
Lombiq provides free custom domain usage on DotNest, publicizing the winner in Lombiq's media, and a year of sponsorship similar to other open source contributors and projects.

If your company works with Orchard Core and would like to incentivize community members, please let us know what else you can add!

Winners of the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award

2024: Hisham Bin Ateya
2025: Mike Alhayek

Organizing the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award

This is how we organize the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award:

Announce it during the weekly meeting.
Ask community members to nominate people in public under the discussion board with a pinned discussion, linked from a pinned issue. Keep nominations open for two weeks. Example issue and discussion. Announce this on social media, Discord.
Open voting under the discussion board with a pinned discussion, linked from a pinned issue. Collect votes for the nominees privately. RCV123.org can be used for ranked-choice voting. Example issue and discussion. Announce this on social media, Discord.
Announce the winner at Orchard Harvest, after the keynote. Announce it under the discussion, on social media, and Discord too.
Add the JTK Community Award Winner role to them on Discord (see the Members menu).