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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. No discussion... by mebrahim · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I vote for Vista.

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    1. Re:No discussion... by JohnBailey · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I vote WGA. The process that gave me the final push to move to Linux.

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  2. Mark Shuttleworth by k33l0r · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I nominate Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu fame. Ubuntu has done more to promote a desktop Linux than any other distro before.

    1. Re:Mark Shuttleworth by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 2, Insightful

      either that or your linux is ready? Sure he did alot, but the biggest 2 projects causing linux adoptions have to be
      firefox & compiz

      mark, may have made a great distro that got alot of limelight, but the fast is that he just happens to have jumped on board at a very good time, ubuntu has done very little that isnt just tying loose ends together, very little high quality coding.

      Ubuntu may be many things but it has not "demonstrated exceptional creativity, and collaboration in the development of open source software."

      That has to go to novel or redhat for their efforts, now if only they would stop developing groupware and get me laid!*

      *before some idiot mods me down, that's a JWZ reference not flamebait(that's flamebait)

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    2. Re:Mark Shuttleworth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      ubuntu has done very little that isnt just tying loose ends together
      Tying the loose ends together is one of the most important parts. It's also the part that is the hardest to get open source programmers to do because there's a large disconnect between what's easy for them and what's easy for the average user.
    3. Re:Mark Shuttleworth by bobtodd · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Links or it didn't happen.