The Best First Time Contribution Award (a trophy, a certificate and registration and a contribution to travel to attend iPRES at some point in the next three years – Beijing 2020, Urbana Champaign 2021 or Glasgow 2022) went to Andrew Weaver of Washington State University for his work on ‘Sustainability through Community: ffmprovisr and the Case for Collaborative Knowledge Transfer‘ which Andrew co-wrote with Ashley Blewer of Artefactual Systems. Special thanks to the Digital Preservation Coalition for sponsoring this award!