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Call For Open Source Awards 2008 Nominations

Posted by kdawson on from the singing-the-unsung dept.

chromatic writes "Google and O'Reilly have published the Call For Open Source Awards 2008 Nominations. These awards, given at OSCON 2008, recognize individual contributors who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and collaboration in the development of open source software. The nomination process is open to the entire open source community, and nominations close on May 15. Here's your chance to sing the praises of previously unsung hackers."

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  1. Re:Mark Shuttleworth by Enderandrew · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    For PR or actual software?

    I loathe Ubuntu, and most everything about it. However, he does a good job promoting his product, even if the product itself isn't very good.

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  2. Re:Mark Shuttleworth by QCompson · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I actually had a mod suggest to me that I should divorce my wife because she bought a laptop that wasn't 100% supported by free drivers. That's a great community. Does your sarcasm detector run on Kubuntu too? Because it's broken.