Announcing the Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize

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This is a great way to remember a person who gave a lot to the community, in a very positive way.

As an aside, I've always wondered whether there are potential legal complications involved with these kinds of awards. A group I was involved in had to forego a monetary gift and instead we awarded tickets/transportation because of some fear mongering related to local laws within our board.

Not sure what the case would be here. IANAL, but would be very interested to hear opinions from one on this topic.

Again, its a great thing to do.

I am emphatically not a lawyer, but while I served as a board member of the DSF, I did speak with one about this! We didn't spend a lot of time on it, but the one think he noted was to avoid using the word "scholarship", because there are some regulations around those.

Sounds like a good way to commemorate him!

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