Thank You Pants#

GNOME awards a pair of pants to an outstanding contributor each year at GUADEC — the “Pants of Thanks”. This page is an attempt to reconstruct the history of who got the pants when. It is helpful to the board when they decide on the pants winner each year.

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Year

Location

Winner

2024

Denver (Colorado, US)

Felipe Borges

2023

Riga (Latvia)

Tobias Bernard

2022

Guadalajara (Mexico)

Sophie Herold

2021

Online only

Georges Basile Stavracas Neto

2020

Online only

Nuritzi Sanchez

2019

Thessaloniki (Greece)

Carlos Garnacho

2018

Almería (Spain)

Sriram Ramkrishna

2017

Manchester (United Kingdom)

Bastian Ilsø

2016

Karlsruhe (Germany)

Alex Larsson

2015

Gothenburg (Sweden)

Emily Chen

2014

Strasbourg (France)

Alexandre Franke

2013

Brno (Czech Republic)

Allan Day

2012

A Coruña (Spain)

Marina Zhurakhinskaya

2011

Berlin (Germany)

Matthias Clasen

2010

The Hague (The Netherlands)

Gil Forcada & Silvia Miranda

2009

Las Palmas (Spain)

Owen Taylor

2008

Istanbul (Turkey)

Olav Vitters

2007

Birmingham (United Kingdom)

Federico Mena

2006

Vilanova (Spain)

Elijah Newren & Vincent Untz

2005

Stuttgart (Germany)

Andrew Sobala (aes)

2004

Kristiansand (Norway)

Luis Villa?

2003

Dublin (Ireland)

Jeff Waugh?