I had the honor and pleasure to hand over this prize to its first real laureate during the award gala on Thursday evening in Brussels, Belgium.

This annual award ceremony is one of the primary missions for the European Open Source Academy, of which I am the president since last year.

As an academy, we hand out awards and recognition to multiple excellent individuals who help make Europe the home of excellent Open Source. Fellow esteemed academy members joined me at this joyful event to perform these delightful duties.

As I stood on the stage, after a brief video about Greg was shown I introduced Greg as this year’s worthy laureate. I have included the said words below. Congratulations again Greg. We are lucky to have you.