Spirit of Delphi Award

In 2001, I won together with other members of Project JEDI the annual Spirit of Delphi Award. If you have interest please visit our homepage and have a look at our projects - maybe you even want to participate in one?

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to be in Long Beach to receive the Award. Anyway, JEDI member Matthew Mead summarized the event for us poor small developers who stayed at home.

At Monday night's "Meet the Delphi/Kylix Team" session, a surprising event occurred. David Intersimone announced Project JEDI as this year's recipient of the "Spirit of Delphi" award. David made a request to the JEDI members in the audience to please stand up.

I, and a handful of others, stood up in the crowd of a few hundred people and were met with enthusiastic applause. If that wasn't already enough excitement, the icing on the cake came when the team of 20 or so Delphi/Kylix developers on stage rose from their seats and joined in the applause. It was certainly a proud moment for all of JEDI, past and present. I couldn't help but feel a ittle guilty that I, a relatively new member of JEDI, was present in the crowd while many long time contributors were unable to be there in person to accept their well-deserved kudos.

However, this unexpected celebration of Project JEDI, an "organization" that contributes so much to the Delphi community and asks for nothing in return, underscores the importance of the group's efforts and the people involved. After speaking with several people at the conference, it is pretty clear that all serious Delphi developers understand the significance of Project JEDI and certainly hope that it continues to grow.

(From Matthew Mead, "One Delphi Developer's Road to BorCon 2001")

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