Editing Andrew Tridgell (section)

==Awards and honours==
* In October 2003, [[The Bulletin (Australian periodical)|The Bulletin]] magazine judged Tridgell to be Australia's smartest [[Information and Communications Technology]] person.<ref>[http://sites.ninemsn.com.au/smart100/default.asp The Bulletin Smart 100<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070318022419/http://sites.ninemsn.com.au/smart100/default.asp |date=18 March 2007 }}</ref><ref>[http://bulletin.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=135066 The Bulletin publishes for the last time<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070509095038/http://bulletin.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=135066 |date=9 May 2007 }}</ref>
* In July 2008, Tridgell was named "Best Interoperator" at the [[Google–O'Reilly Open Source Awards]], for his work on [[Samba (software)|Samba]] and [[rsync]].<ref>[http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/07/and-winners-of-2008-google-oreilly-open.html Google Open Source Blog: ... and the winners of the 2008 Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards are<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
*Tridgell (along with [[Jeremy Allison]] and Volker Lendecke) has been called a "[[guru]] in its traditional Indian meaning" by IT writer, Sam Varghese.<ref>[http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/15896-foss-folk-who-make-us-proud FOSS folk who make us proud], Sam Varghese, [[iTWire]], 2007-12-25, accessed 27 September 2009</ref>
* On 11 December 2018, Tridgell was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science ([[Honoris Causa]]) by the Australian National University, for authoring Samba, co-inventing rsync; and contributions to free and open source software.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://livestream.com/reedgrad/111218AN2/videos/184628443|title=ANU Graduation Ceremony 1 - from ANU Graduation Ceremony 2|website=Livestream|access-date=2018-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/honorary-degree-dr-andrew-tridgell|title=ANU Honorary degree: Dr Andrew Tridgell|date=13 December 2018}}</ref>
* On 26 January 2020, Tridgell was awarded the Medal (OAM) of the [[Order of Australia]] in the General Division for service to Information Technology. The biographical notes for the award noted his contributions to software development and education including his work on [[rsync]], [[Samba (software)|Samba]], [[ArduPilot]], MAVProxy as well as teaching at the [[Australian National University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gg.gov.au/australian-honours-and-awardsaustralian-honours-lists/australia-day-2020-honours-list|title=Australia Day 2020 Honours List}}</ref>