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Second quarter Open Source Awards announced

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cough-up-some-cash dept.

JohnGrahamCumming writes "The Open Source Initiative has announced its Q2 award winners here. Three people/projects got $500 Merit Awards: Martin Pool for distcc, Tom Lord for GNU Arch and The GIMP. OSI is currently looking for nominations for the Q3 awards to be announced at OSCON."

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  1. Re:awards 4 times a year by JohnGrahamCumming · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can read the full details here but Merit Awards are given out four times a year, and Special and Grand Master awards once per year.

    John.

  2. Re:awards 4 times a year by Lurker+McLurker · · Score: 3, Informative
    There are different types of awards. Merit awards are quarterly, Special and Grand Master awards are handed out annually. The Grand Master award gives you $10,000.

    See the Open Source Awards Charter for more details.

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    Mod parent up!
  3. Pearpc for Q3 by MrRuslan · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think they should consider nominating pearpc
    pearpc.sourceforge.net because that project acommplished what many people tought to be imposible.I mean a ppc emulator that runs OSX deserves a prize.

  4. GIMP is all you need. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Glad to see GIMP getting an award. The new version is excellent on Windows XP, too. Amazing! If you need a program to edit photos, GIMP is all you need.

  5. CoLinux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    CoLinux is interesting too. It allows you to run Linux natively, side by side with Windows, at kernel-level. That beats emulators hands-down.

    It should get nominated.

  6. Re:Some worthy projects in my opinion by JohnGrahamCumming · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah, but if you'd actually like these projects to be considered for an award you need to nominate them, rather than posting in a /. comment.

    It's not hard, all it takes is sending an email!

    John.

  7. Comma delimited lists by selan · · Score: 3, Informative
    That sentence should read:
    Three people/projects got $500 Merit Awards: Martin Pool for distcc, Tom Lord for GNU Arch, and The GIMP.
    Yet another example of why it's a good idea to use a comma before the last item in a list. The last two awards went to the GIMP project and to Tom Lord for his work on GNU Arch.
  8. Re:Glad to see Tom Lord get the nod by listen · · Score: 2, Informative

    I thought monotone, codeville, and darcs all used the distributed repository model as well as arch & bk. They may be a little further behind in terms of features or surrounding tools, but each one does have some interesting theory/philosophy of version control behind it.

    And darcs is written in haskell, so it wins points for enjoying the soundness and showing once again that pure FP can be and is used in the "real world"...

    I wouldn't discount any of them yet, but I agree that the subversion fanboys are pretty damn irritating, trying to get every project to switch away from CVS now, when it would clearly be better to wait and see how some of the more revolutionary free systems evolve.

    However, anything is better than clearcase...

  9. Kudos to Martin! by E.S+Taog · · Score: 1, Informative

    Martin made it much easier for me to come out. When I ran across his mailing lists and found how casually he could joke about these things, and how nobody else seemed offended or attacked him for it, I was floored.

    Say what you will about the open software community. Some people may be hot tempered, some may be exclusionary or quick to criticize, but I've yet to find a group so willing to accept people from all walks of life.

    Thanks to more than Martin and OSI. Thank you to everyone for making open source a true open community!