update description

Author: SebastianAchilles

isc25/EESSI/description.tex

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ \subsection*{Overview and Goals}
 between HPC sites to date: less than 30\% of respondents indicated that they
 work together with other HPC sites regarding software installation, even in most recent surveys.
 %Since EasyBuild can help relieve these burdens and foster collaboration, a tutorial introducing this tool is highly relevant to ISC'22 attendees.
-Hence, an EESSI tutorial is very relevant to ISC'24 attendees as this tool helps relieve these burdens and fosters
+Hence, an EESSI tutorial is very relevant to ISC'25 attendees as this tool helps relieve these burdens and fosters
 collaboration.
 % KH: updated to use survey results from SC19 (Tue Feb 11th 17:43 CET)
 %\comment{MG: Are these numbers still OK? I seem to remember that at SC'19 more people said that they were using Spack or EB.}
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ \subsection*{Overview and Goals}
 EasyBuild is used by well over 100 HPC sites worldwide (incl. JSC, CSCS, the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, LUMI,
 \ldots),
 has over 125 unique contributors on a yearly basis,
-and an active Slack channel with over 830 members.
+and an active Slack channel with over 950 members.
 It has reached a critical mass with a welcoming and active community guaranteeing continued development and support, and
 a growing user community.
 %It has reached critical mass, a point where a large user base means more features and software being added regularly, with an accelerated adoption rate, and a welcoming and engaging community.
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ \subsection*{Overview and Goals}
 %The tutorial content will be designed to help the attendees getting started with the tool, so they can immediately benefit from it after the conference.
 
 EESSI is an initiative built on the foundations of the EasyBuild community, and goes one step further by providing a
-truly uniform software stack. It already has a wide spectrum of collaborators despite being a relatively young project.
+truly uniform software stack. It already has a wide spectrum of collaborators despite being a relatively young project. EESSI won the HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards 2024 as Best HPC Programming Tool or Technology. \footnote{\href{https://www.hpcwire.com/2024-readers-editors-choice-best-hpc-programming-tool-or-technology/}{https://www.hpcwire.com/2024-readers-editors-choice-best-hpc-programming-tool-or-technology/}}
 
 EESSI is motivated by the observation that the landscape of computational science is changing in various ways.
 Additional families of general-purpose microprocessors including Arm 64-bit (aarch64) and RISC-V on top of th