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Open Source Awards 2004

Posted by michael on from the applause dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The first Open Source Awards 2004 have been announced. These newly created awards aspire to be the Nobel Prizes of the open source world. Congratulations to the developers of Valgrind, VideoLAN, JACK, and Pango."

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  1. The Grandmasters and Specials yet to be announced by bc90021 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    These are the Merit award winners. The Grand Master and Special Awards be announced at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention.

    That having been said, these projects definitely deserve their awards. I only have experience with VideoLAN, and it's an awesome piece of software.

    The committee allows nominations from the public any time, here, so go nominate your favourite project or Open Source person today! ;)

    --
    libertarianswag.com
  2. Hall of Shame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It should also include the hall of shame for the numerous violators of open source licenses... we need not mention names here... the list is long. Sort of like a vendor black list.

    Yep, you know who they are... I think what ticks me off the most is these violators don't give money, credit or code back - grifters...

  3. My favorite Open Source projects by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ImageMagick

    K3b

    Plone: The most mature open source CMS. http://www.plone.org

    Mamboserver: Not as mature or featurefull as Plone, but very nice as well.

    OfflineIMAP: Simple, reliable, powerful

    Kstars and KDE Technology in general

    The ones that are almost there but could use a hand to make them more intuitive:

    *GNUCash. Can't wait for their Gtk2 version.
    *Mr. Project
    *KOffice has a great technological underpinning. Needs a bit of work, but it's already looking very good.

  4. Valgrind: an amazing tool by Jorrit · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm very happy to hear that valgrind won an award. This tool is really a life-saver for anyone developing projects on Linux (with x86). In my project we have solved lots of very hard bugs just by running our program under valgrind. For many of those bugs we were not even aware that they existed in the first place :-)

    IMHO valgrind is the single most useful programming tool available on linux. Congratulations to the developers!

    Greetings,

    --
    Project Manager of Crystal Space (http://www.crystalspace3d.org). Support CS at http://tinyurl.com/cb3x4
  5. Re:What a boring lineup... by Jorrit · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Thanks to valgrind (one of the winners), a lot of programs that you probably find useful on linux work a lot better then they would have worked without valgrind. It may not be a program that you would ever use yourselves. But the good effects of that program you can feel in many linux software packages.

    Greetings,

    --
    Project Manager of Crystal Space (http://www.crystalspace3d.org). Support CS at http://tinyurl.com/cb3x4
  6. About valgrind by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Valgrind is the only one I use from the list, and, as an user, I must say that it's one of the best tools in my toolbox.

    Valgrind has saved so many hours of debugging that I don't think any developer should live without it. If you haven't tried it, give it a shot, it might not help you now but it's surelly a valuable asset to have in your toolbox.

    Assuming the others are just as great as Valgrind, I'll surelly give them a try (VideoLAN and JACK, because if you run a gui in linux you probably already run something that uses pango).

    Anyway, kudos for the winners!!