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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 Short+Circuit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, I imagine it serves as a sort of continuous "Who's hot, and who's not" announcement.

    People will probably send these maintainers the email equivalent of a slap on the back, and thumbs up.

    Also, it draws attention to the developers. Some of these guys might end up hired as a result of these announcements. Tom Lord especially, since two of his projects won.

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  2. Re:awards 4 times a year by adam+mcmaster · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Given the rapid development cycles of some projects, I don't think four times a year is too much. If they were anual many important projects could be missed.

  3. Re:See!!! by Short+Circuit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    At risk of being redundant, $500 isn't a whole lot for all the time these guys put into their projects.

    On the other hand, the recognition may land them jobs as developers or as managers of a group of developers.

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  4. Bigger! More! by stomv · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It would be nice if they could (a) increase the number, and (b) increase the monetary value of the awards. But, with what money?

    I have no idea (and I did read a bit) how they manage their money, other than their 503(c) status and necessary government reporting. Do they have an endowment, or do they rely on annual donations to cover the annual (and quarterly) awards?

    I would hope they have an endowment. If so, It'd be nice to know how one could make small (less than $100!) donations to the endowment. After all, if lots of little guys would start giving to funds like this*, than they could give out mo'bigger awards, resulting in more media coverage as well as help fund good coders in future projects.

    So... do they have an endowment? Do they accept small donations to help fund this endowment? Anybody got details?

    * as well as the EFF and other "goods"

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