Merge pull request #503 from SethTisue/bagwell-2016

Bagwell Award 2016 (don't merge til Oct 26)

Author: heathermiller

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+title: "Erik Osheim receives community award"
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+We are pleased to announce that the Phil Bagwell Memorial Scala Community Award for 2016 has been awarded to [Erik Osheim](https://twitter.com/d6).  The award was presented in Lake District, UK at [Scala World 2016](https://scala.world).
+
+Erik is known to Scala users as:
+
+* creator of [Spire](https://github.com/non/spire), a leading library for numerics in Scala
+* creator of other tools and libraries such as [kind-projector](https://github.com/non/kind-projector) (a compiler plugin for type lambdas) and [jawn](https://github.com/non/jawn/) (a very fast JSON parser)
+* leader of the [Cats](https://github.com/typelevel/cats) project, which provides abstractions for functional programming in Scala ("cats" being short for "category", as in category theory)
+* cofounder of [Typelevel](http://typelevel.org), a Scala community organization dedicated to furthering pure, typeful functional programming in Scala
+* a friendly and tireless conference-goer and presenter
+
+Erik's 2015 Scala World presentation, "Principles for approachable,
+modular, functional libraries"
+([slides](http://plastic-idolatry.com/erik/sw2015-inv.pdf),
+[video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKyIKozv8a8)) is a classic on
+the subject of open-source library design, not only from a technical
+perspective, but with attention to how sofwtare communities and
+ecosystems operate.
+
+The Bagwell Award is named in honor of Phil Bagwell, who passed away in 2012.  In a [2012 blog post](https://www.typesafe.com/blog/rip-phil-bagwell), Martin Odersky remembers Phil and his special place in the Scala community.
+
+Past winners of the award:
+
+* 2015: [Bill Venners](http://scala-lang.org/news/2015/06/25/bagwell-award-2015.html)
+* 2014: [Lalit Pant](https://kojoenv.wordpress.com/2014/09/27/phil-bagwell-award/)
+* 2013: [Dick Wall](https://twitter.com/dickwall)
+