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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. 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.