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AUSTRALIAN OPEN SOURCE AWARDS VOTING UNDERWAY
AUUG announces the nominations and the commencement of voting for the Australian Open Source Awards
SYDNEY, Australia -- 29 August, 2003 -- AUUG, the Australian UNIX and Open Systems User Group, today announced the nominations and the commencement of voting for the second annual Australian Open Source Awards. The awards encourage and recognise the excellence and dedication of Australians contributing in the Open Source arena.
"The first Australian Open Source Awards held last year created enormous interest in the contributions of Australians to the international Open Source community. We are pleased to be able to again highlight the community spirit and excellent technology being developed by Australians," said Michael Paddon, chair of the nominations committee.
Awards will be given in four categories: technology, application, community, and special achievement. The first three awards are decided by the popular vote of the AUUG membership, and the special achievement category is judged by committee. Membership of AUUG is open to any individual or organisation with an interest in open computing technologies. Online voting is now underway at http://classic.auug.org.au/awards/aosa/vote.html
he Awards Ceremony will be take place during the AUUG 2003 Annual Conference Dinner, on September 4, 2003, in Sydney. Both AUUG members and non-members can attend the conference with discounts for AUUG members, members of affiliated organizations and students. Tickets for the dinner and awards ceremony may also be purchased separately. Please visit http://classic.auug.org.au/events/2003/auug2003/ for further details.
"Winners will each receive a unique and valuable statue, donated by linuxjewellery.com, as a token of the esteem in which the community holds their work," said Greg Lehey, AUUG President.
The Australian Open Source Awards are sponsored by Silicon Breeze (http://www.siliconbreeze.com/), who design and provide the gold "tux" and "beastie" award statues which embody the Open Source spirit.
Awarded for open source work that provides technology or programming infrastructure, such as operating systems, programming languages and compilers, or database systems.
| Martin Pool | For the "distcc" distributed compiler. (http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/projects/distcc). |
| Peter Chubb | For work on large block device support in Linux. |
| Luke Mewburn | For work on the core NetBSD team leading to NetBSD 1.6.*. (http://www.netbsd.org/). |
| Luke Howard | For work on the Linux LDAP nameservice libraries. (http://www.padl.com/). |
Awarded for open source work that is focused on solving a particular problem or is for use by end users rather than system builders. Examples include email clients, text processing systems, web browsers, or maybe a program that carries out a complex scientific calculation.
| Andrew Tridgell | For rsync. (http://samba.org/rsync/) |
| The Karst Index Database Team, specifically Michael Lake, Rick Welykochy, Peter Matthews | For the Karst Index Database, which catalogues all caves in Australia. (http://www.caves.org.au/kid_docs/set_kid.htm) |
| David Hughes | For Mini SQL (also known as mSQL). (http://www.hughes.com.au/). |
Awarded for a significant contribution to the open source community. This could be by publicising open source, making open source more acceptable to business, encouraging communication and cooperation between open source developers, or any other activity that makes it easier for open source code to be developed.
| Kimberley Shelt | Setting up LinMagAu, promoting the cause of open source and highlighting Australian contributions to the community. |
| Jeff Waugh | Open source evangelism, significant contributions to the Gnome project and promotion of Linux in Australia. |
| Leon Brooks | Major contributions to the adoption of open source software in the Australian IT industry. |
| Dr Horst Herb | Promotion of open source to the Australian medical community, founding of GNUMed project (http://www.gnumed.net/), writing of "gnotary" (http://www.gnumed.net/gnotary/), and creation of "Free Peer Reviewed Pharmaceutical Reference" (http://www.drugref.org/). |
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