QtChampions

This page will be used for nominations for the 2023 Qt Champions.

The Nomination Process

The nomination process is public. To nominate a community member, please fill in the table down below.

Nominate them here

We’ll keep the nominations open until the 22th December 2023 and then ask the current Qt Lifetime Champions to evaluate the nominees.

The categories for nomination are:

• Community Builder
• Content Creator
• Quality Assurer
• Developer
• Fixer
• Ambassador
• Rookie of the year
• Maverick

Each category may or may not have a Qt Champion in a given year. The number of Qt Champions is limited. Being nominated does not automatically bring a title, but is a recognition in itself.

We know we have very talented Qt Champions out there, but please nominate a person for one category. You can nominate multiple people for a category, only Rookie of the year and Maverick are strictly limited to one Champion per year. You can nominate any member of the community, including yourself.

In the below table please add the following information of the person you wish to nominate for a Qt Champion title:

• Qt Account username, codereview name or Name
• Category or Title to be nominated for
• Reasons for nomination (max. 300 words, please provide links to relevant material if possible)

Nominations 2023

Name/Username	Title category	Reason for nomination
Lukas Kosiński	Ambassador	Delivering high quality Qt promotional talks in countless forums all around the globe this year, sharing his unique and vast experience and insights across many domains and development frameworks - Qt being his very obvious preference. For being a very visible public voice and guide for developing best in class QML applications. For notably creating and contributing a 16 part QML Tutorial to the Qt Academy: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP7UmEJ9z4mpi0JXcPS0VRK-7eFAfROZI&si=CHZDqUgidxIDnwvF making QML learning available to the community. For creating a brand new "Cute Talk" promoting Qt use within a wide variety of industrial and UX scenarios. All while running his own acclaimed business and becoming an official Qt Service Partner.
Jesper Pedersen	Content Creator	Jesper is probably the most popular face on Qt-related YouTube. He's recording a series of Qt tutorials and related videos with his colleagues. All this with the highest quality and expertise. This year Jesper released a new series on Qt Widgets -> https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6CJYn40gN6hgf7zCKF2Rv9Y0WoN8RVGf&si=EaykUg0zti6ydSLY. The series is also available on Qt Academy letting both individuals and the community grow.
Mike Trahearn	Community Builder	Mike is an active Qt evangelist sharing his insights, opinions an,d news regarding the QML, C++and development. As someone experienced in all of the above, he significantly impacts the shape of Qt's designing tooling.
Mike Trahearn	Maverick	Been working with Mike for quite some time now and he is the true synonym of the word maverick! He impersonates everything what's innovative, daring, revolutionary and close to impossible (think Tom Cruise style). He has an extraordinary ability to push the boundaries of what's possible with Qt. His projects often address critical issues, paving the way for more efficient and effective use of Qt in a number of industries. On top of all that, as a true maverick, Mike embodies the spirit of collaboration and open-source development. His work not only reflects his exceptional skills and creativity but also inspires others to explore the vast potential of Qt. Few of his recent whereabouts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODf07aLnhEk https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/qt-qml-hot-tips-7-mike-trahearn/?trackingId=0FcxDXIbTm66TmCHtrXuhg%3D%3D
Christian Ehrlicher	Developer	Christian was nominated to become the QtSql co-maintainer (together with Andy Shaw) in late 2022, and has since then tackled that responsibility with countless patches and improvements across the various Sql drivers, adding tests and cleaning up the code and generally making that code less bad. In addition, Christian is a very active contributor to Qt Widgets, adding tons of fixes and doing a lot of janitorial work to keep that code base up-to-date. And lastly, he's very active on the forum, constantly helping users and sharing his experience.
Axel Spoerl	Community Builder	Since the time Axel has started answering on the forum, he has shown dedication to tackle all kinds of questions in an extensive and clear manner that makes his answers worth reading. He helped numerous people going at length to ensure that he conveys all necessary information to the readers.
Tasuku Suzuki	Fixer	Tasuku is a long-term (over 11 years) contributor to the Qt project. This year alone he provided over 100 patches to Qt and Qt Creator, for example the famous side-by-side Markdown viewer in Qt Creator. Also, he always keeps an eye on building Qt with several features disabled. This is easy to break and hard to check automatically, because there are some many features. The more valuable is his work for the whole community, especially everyone with restricted resources. Congratulations for this long-standing connection to the Qt project.
Chris Kawa	Community Builder	Over the years, Chris has shown dedication to provide more than just high quality answers. He is sharing his programming knowledge not only around Qt and C++ but also OpenGL and application logic. His answers are always nice to read as they offer valuable inputs in fields that are not as known as others.

Criteria for Qt Champions

• Community Builder
  • Being a forum maintainer / helping people on forums
  • Managing mailing lists / helping on the mailing lists
  • Helping Qt newcomers find their way around the project
  • Running Qt study groups
  • Running local Qt meetups
• Content Creator
  • Finding, writing and sharing use-cases of Qt in unexpected places
  • Creating video material of Qt (demos, guides, other material)
  • Authoring articles and even books
  • Fixing documentation issues
  • Creating examples and snippets
  • Being a wiki gardener / editor
• Quality Assurer
  • Bug triager
  • Being in the bug squad
  • Verifying and closing bugs
  • Help in package testing
  • Help in unit testing
  • Being in the community beta testing program
• Developer
  • Providing new features for Qt
  • Create stunning Qt applications
  • Share Qt application creation knowledge
• Fixer
  • Fixing bugs in Qt
  • Providing patches to Qt
• Ambassador
  • Spread the Qt word in blogs, social media, videoblogs
  • Find and help newcomers to Qt
  • Working to bring Qt to students
  • Present Qt at events
• Rookie of the Year
  • First code commit during the past year
  • Active and positive contribution to the Qt project
• Maverick
  • Has made a significant impact on the project
  • Might not have always followed the rules to the point, but gets the job done

What is expected of a Qt Champion

A Qt Champion is there to show what the Qt Community is best at.

The Qt Champion is friendly and has shown active participation with the Qt project.

Limited time only

Once you are given the title of Qt Champion, you will hold the title for a year.

If you achieve the title for three years, you will be entitled for a lifetime title. If you are so committed to the project, you need to be recognised beyond a normal Qt Champion title.

But I get paid to do this! / What if we are a company?

Yes, some of us are paid to work on Qt by our employers. Mostly on the code base, but also testing, documentation and other essential work goes on in the project. Some of the people who do get paid to work on the project do so above and beyond the normal limits of their day jobs (coding all day and helping newcomers in their free time, for example). We need metrics to find these people and provide them with a Qt Champion title too.

Tools to help figure this out

To find the top non-Qt-company contributors in a repo:

git log --since=2021-01-01 | grep Author | grep -v qt.io | sort | uniq -c | sort -n