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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. See!!! by TopShelf · · Score: 4, Funny

    And who said Open Source can't be financially rewarding...

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    1. 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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    2. Re:See!!! by nkh · · Score: 5, Funny

      All these guys are now wondering how much ramen one can buy with $500!

    3. Re:See!!! by bigdavex · · Score: 4, Funny

      And who said Open Source can't be financially rewarding...

      All they need now is another $199.

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  2. 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.

  3. Speech... by bennomatic · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd like to thank Linus, and Richard--This one's for you, Richard!--and the brave guys and gals at CollabNet. And for those of you just getting started, I'd like to say... this trophy is worth more than all the stock options I ever received!

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  4. Some worthy projects in my opinion by baywulf · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Autotrace is a program that converts bitmaps to vector drawings: http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/

    Imgseek classifies bitmap images based on similarity . http://imgseek.sourceforge.net/

    Both would be awesome if converted into libraries used by other programs.

  5. 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.

  6. Glad to see Tom Lord get the nod by Tet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Tom's been struggling financially for a while, and even had to stop developing Arch because he didn't have enough funds. Arch is the only open source revision control system that is comparable to BitKeeper. Subversion may be an improvement on CVS, but it's nowhere near as comprehensive as Arch or BK. Incidentally, even Larry McVoy admits that Arch has the potential to be even better than BK. The current difference is that BK is much more polished and production ready.

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