Annual Awards of the Year announced by EdgeX China Community
2020 was a year like no other, as we witnessed the ravages of the COVID epidemic and the global economic turmoil together. However, the EdgeX Foundry China community has thrived over the past year, successfully organizing the EdgeX Challenge Shanghai, China Day event, and numerous training and meetup events both online and offline, bringing together a large number of developers, architects, and industry experts. Today, EdgeX community has developed into the largest edge computing community in China. We know that the community thrives thanks to a large number of active community members, who either enthusiastically contribute code to benefit the EdgeX ecosystem or actively participate in project promotion and evangelism. The "Evangelist of the Year" and "Code Contributor of the Year" of the EdgeX China community in 2020 have been recommended by the core team of EdgeX China and approved as follows.
| Recommendation (by sequence of 1st letter of organization's name) | Candidates | Recommended Award | Why to be recommended | |
| Name | Organization | |||
| Intel | Zhihao Wang | Baowu Steel group | Evangelist of the year | Facilitated EdgeX landing in Baowu steel group and supported subsequent evolutions |
| Intel | Xiongwei Yu | Agree technplogy | Evangelist of the year | Facilitated EdgeX landing in ADaaS (Agree technology's Device as a Service) solution in banking vertical |
| IOTech, Intel | Hans Chen | IOTech | Evangelist of the year | Used EdgeX and Node-Red to deal with visualization data |
| IOTech, VMware | Cloud Tsai | IOTech | Code contributor of the year | Led design, development and test of EdgeX v2 API |
| Intel, VMware | Rocky Jin | EMQ | Evangelist of the year | Promoted EdgeX with Kuiper (rules engine of EdgeX Applications service). |
| Jiangxing Intelligence, VMware | Danyang Song | Jiangxing Intelligence | Evangelist of the year | Pushed EdgeX solution landing & deployments with use cases of state grid, water authority, oil & gas, Beijing Energy group. |
| Jiangxing Intelligence | Yaohong Li | Jiangxing Intelligence | Code contributor of the year | Open sourced GPIO/UART device service to the community, and 7 samples of common device drivers |
| Thundersoft | Shuo Zhang | Thundersoft | Evangelist of the year | Facilitated EdgeX solution cooperations/landing with Telco operators, Universities |
| Thundersoft | Jintao Bai | Thundersoft | Code contributor of the year | Contributed code on EdgeX device onboarding solutions, to realize auto-join functions; Expanded ONVIF device services. |
| VMware | Huaqiao Zhang | VMware | Code contributor of the year | Contributed code on EdgeX UI |
Each of the above winners will receive a medal awarded by the EdgeX Foundry China community.
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