[Call for] Nominations for the UBports Community Awards

RJDan

Nominations are now open for the UBports Community Awards.
Since this is the first run at having these awards, I thought
its best to keep things a bit simple.
Here are the final two categories:

Community favourite app
Community favourite developer

Everyone can suggest up to two nominees for each category.
Nominations close on the evening of 1 Dec.
Leave your suggestions below.

For each nomination, indicate the category, nominee and a short paragraph about why you are nominating this person/app.

Prize: A large pizza for each category.

DJac

i don't know the developpers.
but my favorit app is OSM scout server.

johndoe

@RJDan Hello, I would like to nominate as Community favourite developer 2025:

@fredldotme (Alfred E. Neumayer) https://gitlab.com/fredldotme https://fredl.me/
because of his technical explanations and his constant work on different parts of the OS (Last things I saw him post about where kernel updates, encryption and docker).

@lduboeuf (Lionel Duboeuf) https://gitlab.com/lduboeuf https://www.youtube.com/@totodesbois100
because I often see his activities on Gitlab and he seems like a helpful person to me.

If I could nominate more than two people I would also like to mention
@peat_psuwit, because of his involvement with the move to 24.04,
@pparent, because of his work on a Signal App and communication with the community during the process and
@k.nacke, because it looked like he joined this year and immediately started successfully porting a device.

As Community favourite app 2025 I would like to nominate two efforts to bring better web browsers to UT:

uWolf https://open-store.io/app/uwolf.chromiumos-guy by @ChromiumOS-Guy
because it is nice to have a newer browser, but it is also nice to see that it was possible to bring a big classic GTK desktop app to UT.

Morph QT6 https://open-store.io/app/mariogrip.morph.browser-qt6 by @mariogrip
because development on Morph is really appreciated.

I could help make some graphics for the "UBports Community Awards" and help make a good looking web page, so the winners and nominees could later link to something, when they apply for a job or just want to "flex on their friends".

jezek

app:
1.
2.

developer:

@lduboeuf - work on essential apps and more
@alan_g - work on mir

uxes

List of Apps for Human Beings:

futify - Despite all the hate, I love it
dekko - same as above

List of Human Beings:

I could list all the hard workers where one of them will definitely win (Marius, Alfred, Ratchanan, Sunweaver, Jami, NotKit, Danfro, Capsia,..)
but I will be biased and mention those who personally wasted a lot of time with me on chat (unfortunately I will leave out people like all wilfridd, x.Dub, jmlich,..)

lduboeuf - for all the time he spent with me debugging bugs in the SMS and Calendar apps

Vlad Nirki - for the time spent debugging at the beginning of the year, to make VoLTE work on miatoll

Eric H

Community favourite developer:

Tobiyo Kuujikai / @Fuseteam

for Crackle/nix contributions
for all debClick apps including firefox
for his work on UT Core and related issues
for his help on UT telegram groups
for every helpful interaction I’ve had with him