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CNET to Award Open Source Initiatives
An anonymous reader writes "CNET's 2005 awards will for the first time include a category for Open Source Initiative of the Year. The winner will be announced at a gala dinner in London's swanky Park Lane Hilton in September. It's good to see such explicit acknowledging of the work being done by the open source community."
They took a floundering open source project and really did something great with it.
Is she as slutty as Paris?
To help prepare the meal, serve others and clean up after... for free, of course.
Of course in the closed source world, the "prize" for success is cold hard cash.
And we all know what a bastion of OSS CNET/ZDNet is...
...Rob
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Open Source Initiative of the Year Category
Open source is becoming an increasingly important and accepted part of the enterprise technology landscape and, in many organisations, it is progressing from the edge-of-network servers into mission critical jobs in the datacentre and onto the desktop. This award aims to recognise the company, individual or group of individuals that has helped make this happen.
You may have developed an application, or equally have lobbied for an important issue to help push open source forward. Whatever your initiative, the judges will be looking for evidence of both technical innovation and commercial potential.
Judging Criteria:
* Contribution to the community
* Effectiveness
* Commercial potential
* Innovation
Article text provided for easy reading and a vain attempt at staving off hordes of slashbots asking what counts as an initiative.
All I can think of is the timeless Graucho Marx line 'I wouldn't be a member of any country club that would have me as a member'.
Could it be Firefox and the Mozilla Foundation by chance? Sources say... yes.
What on Earth makes them think they are qualified to select the best Open Source Initiative of the year? Don't they own download.com, arguably the largest repository of crap-filled closed-source downloadables? This sounds like the Winston-Salem Environmental & Health awards...
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This would be a neat slashdot poll, but I think firefox is the clear winnner this year.
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...will be published under the GPL and will be awarded in leiu of an actual trophy or cash prize.
from the rules:
The Awards are open to all companies that have been trading in the UK for at least 12 months prior to the Awards deadline. In certain cases, companies that are nominated by third parties will be considered for the awards.
Your patch is too small to be worth merging.
The Park Lane Hilton is a very ordinary hotel. Anybody who describes it as swanky needs to get out more. Mind you, they used to do a good afternoon tea. Back in the 70s....
Now Browns is a swanky hotel. And the Savoy was, once, before it was taken over. But, and I'm sorry to destroy anybody's fantasies, the London Hilton is about as swanky as Paris Hilton, and for much the same reason.
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is good publicity. I for one am not going to complain about some postive mainstream attention.
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An anonymous reader writes ... good to see such explicit acknowledging of the work being done by the open source community.
Good to see people willing to stand up and openly support open source...
She's got some funky boobs.
Am I the only man on the planet who finds her unattractive?
More half-wit inexperienced developers trying to make their mark.
Lustre, a great Linux network filing system, is selling for quite extraordinary sums of money - which means it undoubtably has commercial value and interest. The mailing list is fairly active and they are even organizing international meetings to cover it. Not bad for a project that is GPLed and is sufficiently far off the mainstream as to be considered esoteric outside the clustering world.
However, that is exactly the point. Lustre IS esoteric, in many ways, and IS only really appealing to special interest groups, but is also unquestionably innovative and a commercial success. How on earth can you make a meaningful comparison of that with, say, Firefox that has zero commercial value, uses a lot of recycled components, but has triggered a massive level of awareness in both Open Source and software security?
The two are both extremely significant, but significant in vastly different ways, and both are different again from the impact of porting JFS and XFS, which have both revolutionized the way IBM and SGI look at the hardware and software markets.
So you have lots of different categories. But will those categories be meaningful? "Best new product" is a likely category, but is hardly informative and tells you nothing about how you would compare the vast range of different products that exist.
On the other hand, if you split things up by what they do, you'd almost end up with one category per product, so everyone would end up winning on something, making an award a meaningless achievement.
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It's clear that Open Source is becoming more mainstream by the day. I think there has to be some admission that the coined term of OpenSource does beat out "free software" from a marketing and appeal to general public.
Good job!
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Thats GOOD NEWS even for corporate patent hedged software houses. An unusual chance to see that long wanted and cloaked person that will crawl into the daylight to claim the price. May be a police officer should be there also and assists during the ceremony, so the possible convict will have no chance to escape.
a nice hotel seems far too corporate for anything relating to open source. Surely this goes against what the open source software community really stands for.
For open source award to have any real merit it would have to be run by the community somehow, and voted for by people in the community who have their finger on the pulse of what's going on and who's doing great things.
Having said that, the attention it may bring could help to push open-source software (eg firefox).into the home of the average person. Although now I'm thinking about it, maybe that isn't beneficial to the community.
I'm smarter than the average bear.
This would be like Microsoft awarding a Freedom to Innovate award each year.
the Slashdot story on Summer of Code sholud still be there.
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To submit an entry for the "Open Source Initiative of the Year" you have to fill out MS word (entry_form_2005.doc) file.
The winner will be announced at a gala dinner in London's swanky Park Lane Hilton in September. It's good to see such explicit acknowledging of the work being done by the open source community."
Imagine that, something explicit happening at a Hilton.
I can see it now, the F/OSSey awards, sponsored by Cheetos and Jolt cola.... Broadcast live on public access television and bittorrent (of course) with a counter in the lower right corner that counts the number of not-paid-for downloads since the broadcast started..... Hooray
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Sweet! Let's go download some Free Open Source programs from download.com!
:(
Wait - I can't! There aren't any! Not even an acknoledgement that this type of software exists
Hmm. Should be a packed awards ceremony.
Paris Hilton is coming to London?
Why doesn't Slashdot do something like this? There's no reason that it couldn't hold just as fancy an award reception, get media attention, etc... and with Slashdot readers doing the picks the award winners might just half-deserve some recognition, unlike the tools CNET is likely to pick.
I'd recommend gcc be entered in, seeing how much software wouldn't be here today without it. Sadly, it'll be the Han Solo award all over again.
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That the entry form is in MS Office DOC format :-(
Come on guys, how about PDF or plain HTML.
Man, what an incredible application from the open source community. Plus it turns an evil little box in the living room into the home media center that every electronics company has been chasing for what, 10 years now?
Check it out. I'm not on the team, I've got no vested interest in promoting it, I just think it's one of the coolest OSS things I've seen in ages.
as the pretty things of Knightsbridge are legendary, as we all know.
The hotel itself, alas, is a tad ordinary.
I've been down this road before, it ain't pretty.
Chris
Co-Editor, Open Sources
Open Source Program Manager, Google, Inc.
You may still nominate Free Software projects for the TuxMobil GNU/Linux Award 2005.
If you can't read the file you can't nominate ooOffice.
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