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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."
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.
Keep in mind, though, that working on OSS projects applies as 'experience'. If you're fresh out of school with the ink still wet on your CS degree, working for OSS for a while will most definitely get you a higher starting salary when you put it on your Resume.
Unless you go to work for SCO or MS.