Two days ago I received an email notifying me that I had been nominated as New Zealand’s Open Source Ambassador in the forthcoming New Zealand Open Source Awards, and that I had been judged a finalist. I was both honoured and humbled by this news and decided to share it with some colleagues.

“Oh, yeah, we knew that”, was the response. It seems that nominations have been a hot topic across the web and while I knew about the awards, I did not take the time to read any of the press releases or postings on various websites. It seems others had and “my” news had been reported in Computerworld on 13th September. You can read the article online here: Computerworld New Zealand

“If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.”
anon. (Often attributed to comedian Lucille Ball, but known as far back as William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

It seems a lot of people have taken that old saying to heart and the demands on my time have been rather heavy in the past month. Since returning from July’s Local Government Conference in Dunedin (with a good dose of norovirus to recover from) time has just raced away. I’m never much good with enforced rest, which may be why it took me a couple of weeks to recover from norovirus, but as soon as I was back to normal I found my days completely filled. The Standard has been reasonably good lately in reporting back on civic events and on council meetings so I won’t bore you by writing about those.