Congratulations to all 542 students from 56 countries who completed an impressive 3,054 tasks in the contest. Packt and submit nominations for their favorite open source project. Nominations open for uk open source awards jonathan. Open source awards 2011 launched recognizing excellence in open source the packt open source awards 2011 have been announced. About the packt open source awards the open source awards is a contest that aims to encourage, support, recognize and reward open source projects. The mission of osi is simpleto accelerate development and deployment of open source in india, and beyond.
Each year, infoworlds bossies best of open source software awards recognize the best open source software for business. Server distribution of the year, 2011 members choice awards. Stallman announced the winners of the fsfs annual free software awards at a ceremony on sunday, march 25th, held during the libreplanet 2012 conference at the university of massachusetts, boston. Each year, infoworlds bossies best of open source software awards recognize the best.
This year, all papers accepted for oral presentation in main conference, symposium, and workshop events will also be presented in poster plenary sessions. Nominations are currently open, but close in a few short weeks. Slideshow find out who won at this years best of vmworld europe user awards in copenhagen. The acm multimedia 2011 opensource software competition is the eighth running competition. Open source is now essential in how the world works. Staying true to packts values for the awards of encouraging, supporting, recognizing and rewarding open source projects, weve introduced and altered categories to allow a greater scope of projects to take part. Opensource software mises wiki, the global repository. Infoworld editors and contributors pick the top open source software for datacenters, clouds, developers, big data analysts, and it pros. Recognizes the communitys favorite contributors from 2015. List of free and opensource software packages wikipedia. The award for outstanding new free software contributor. Packt publishing is pleased to announce the finalists of the 2011 open source award.
The 2011 award names 37 winners, including longstanding. In 2015, she interviewed with jen wike huger about mozillas involvement in the open source day codethon at the grace hopper celebration of women in computing conference, and she wrote mozilla cares for community with. Bossies best of open source software awards are instituted by infoworld. Foss4g 2011 free and open source software for geospatial. The judging panel described the apache hadoop project as. Debian wins two of seven categories at the linux new media. Packt will be launching its annual open source awards in 2011 and once again we have worked to make the awards bigger and better. Samyak foundation a charitable trust, working on environment and health issues in my village. The winners of the best of vmworld europe user awards 2011. In this interview, the cofounders, mary gardiner and valerie aurora, look back at the organizations successes, and the work that still needs to be done. Open source software hits a strategic tipping point.
Plone places third in 2011 packt open source awards cms category. Free software foundation awards free software foundation. See more of this years best of the best, including tech leaders who won the technology leadership awards, and the open source software winners of the infoworld bossie awards. In 2011, foss4g will be held in denver, after being held in barcelona, sydney and cape town the past three years. When debian germany project member alexander reichleschmehl climbed onto the stage at cebit in hanover, germany, to accept the award for outstanding contribution to open.
A groundbreaking open source project has won the top prize at the 2011 mediaguardian innovation awards. Open source software, otherwise known as free and open source software foss facilitates usage, spread and tinkering of the software as per users requirements. The apache software foundation, whose opensource server software burst onto the tech scene in the 1990s, led to many vendors trying a similar strategy essentially, selling customers support. Open source software selection criteria start from listing out with the open source packages and after listing out the best its now time for the evaluation of criteria. The apache hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. We look forward to continuing to improve openshot with each release. Open source india osi is an attempt by the team at open source for you magazine in partnership with indias open source community and industryto bring various stakeholders under one roof. The last north american foss4g event was in victoria, bc, in 2007. Congratulations to the 2020 awards program winners.
Infoworld bossies award, 2011 each year, infoworlds bossies best of open source software awards recognize the best open source software for business. Wso2 wins infoworld 2011 bossie best of open source award in. Packt announce finalists for 2011 open source awards. How to evaluate open source software evaluation criteria. Openshot video editor has won the following awards. We are very proud of each award, but our journey is far from over. Worth to consider source available under mit license. Formerly the open source cms award, the contest has been running since 2006 and, according to a press release sent to. This is a list of free and opensource software packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and opensource licenses.
Best linux distribution, 2018 linux journal readers choice awards. Jessicas introduction to open source in 2006 was a positive experience and she aspires to make open source communities more welcoming to new contributors, so that their first. These awards are presented to select open source software that best. It creates freedom thats the free software side, helps education i only learnt how to program from reading source code to kde apps, allows cooperation across industries, gives a competitive advantage, encourages sharing and reuse. Best open source server distribution and outstanding contribution to open sourcelinuxfree software at the linux new media awards 2011. The 2011 open source awards was launched today by packt, inviting people to visit. Discovering open source software was a revelation for me. Now in its sixth year, the awards continue in its aim of encouraging, supporting, recognizing and rewarding all open source projects. Nz open source awards new zealand open source awards.
Open source awards 2011 launched recognizing excellence. For more information about the philosophical background for opensource. The award for the advancement of free software is given annually to. From the software used by organizations, opensource is expected to rise to thirty percent by mid2012. Jenkins is a free and open source automation server. Palo alto, ca september 12, 2011 wso2 announced today that it has been named an infoworld 2011 best of open source software bossie award winner. Article source infoworld if you think you can easily whittle down the best open source software to a manageable number, youll soon discover that you cant do it without a great deal of hair pulling, nail biting, and gnashing of teeth. Happy to get first award for a software from search engine optimisation field in the history of packt open source award. One of the most exciting things about opensource software is the sheer diversity of projects that are.
The uk open source awards will be a day of celebration of all things free and open with software. It helps automate the parts of software development related to building, testing, and deploying, facilitating continuous integration and continuous delivery. The fsf gives out three awards each year at the libreplanet conference. Software that fits the free software definition may be more appropriately called free software. Awards highlight impact of open source software pcworld. Plone places third in 2011 packt open source awards cms.
Infoworld awards best of open source to libreoffice italo vignoli. Open source refers to the fact that users of the software are given free access to its source code and, depending on the terms of their license, can also modify and redistribute that code. Infoworlds bossie best of open source awards september 20 we won in the category of best open source desktop and mobile software. It is mainly intended to celebrate and encourage the contribution of researchers, software developers and educators to advance the field by providing the community with implementations of codecs, middleware, frameworks, toolkits, libraries, multimedia. Apache hadoop takes top prize at media guardian innovation. According to the free software movements leader, richard stallman, the main difference is that by choosing one term over the other i. It supports version control tools, including accurev, cvs, subversion, git, mercurial, perforce. Yukihiro matsumoto accepting the 2011 advancement of free software award from former fsf president richard stallman free software foundation fsf grants two annual awards. Infoworlds bossies recognize the best open source software for business. William john sullivan, executive director, free software foundation. The apache hadoop open source software project won the top prize at thursday nights 2011 mediaguardian innovation awards, the megas described by the judging panel as a. Groundbreaking open source project wins top mediaguardian. Eligible for the award are primarily open source projects and software libraries but also tools and applications. The open source awards recognise and celebrate the outstanding work done with free and open source software and the artistic, scientific, and social outcomes it delivers in new zealand.
Infoworld identifies the most innovative products available to. This can be followed by searching the capabilities of the tool, customizations the tool can offer, integration the tool can offer you with 3rd party software etc. The oreilly open source award is presented to individuals for dedication, innovation, leadership and outstanding contribution to open source. Wso2 wins infoworld 2011 bossie best of open source. Adding further fuel to the celebratory open source fires over the past few days, however, have been several batches of awards recognizing the global impact of. Users have complete freedom to copy, distribute and modify the code. The company was recognized in the data center and cloud category for its open source middleware stack, which includes the wso2 carbon enterprise middleware platform for implementing onpremise and wso2 stratos cloud middleware platform for. This is the second year in a row that nagios has achieved such an honor. The finalists, listed in alphabetical order across all the categories, are as follows. We won in the category of best open source desktop and mobile software. Founded in 2011, the ada initiative is a nonprofit feminist organization created to help improve open source culture and build a more inviting, productive, safe environment for women. The best open source data center and cloud software we dont pick on microsoft any more, said jim zemlin, executive director of the linux foundation. This announcement signals the start of the next stage where the finalists are now open to public vote, which lasts until october 31. Read more about this years winners usgif geoint achievement award categories.
In every software category worth mentioning, youll find a competitive. Academic this award for academic achievement recognizes an individual, research project, academic program, or department that has made great strides in geospatial intelligence or a related field. E ahukahuka ana, e whakanui ana nga tohu pumanawa herekore i nga mahi papai rawa i oti ma nga pumanawa koreutu, herekore hoki, me nga hua toi, putaiao. They first took the stage when the award for best open source server distribution was presented by peter ganten, managing director of univention gmbh. Our 2011 bossie award winners represent the best that open source. The award for projects of social benefit is presented to a project or. It is a serverbased system that runs in servlet containers such as apache tomcat. We cover 14 different types of educational software in the pages below. Jessica won the women in open source community award for her efforts to create more inclusive environments in open source communities and the technology industry. Formerly the open source cms award, the contest has been running since 2006.
He is also an open source free software enthusiast, web developer and an optimist. The oreilly open source award is presented to individuals for dedication, innovation. The debian representatives were quite busy at this years linux new media awards, which were presented yesterday during cebit in hanover, germany. Foss4g is the global conference focused on free and open source software for geospatial, organized by osgeo. You can find something os for almost any program, even things like phplist for doing free mailing lists, coppermine gallery for a free gallery. In 2011, about thirty percent of the total software expenditures in the united states were for the development of prepackaged software. Infoworld named nagios as one of the best of open source software bossie 2009 award winners.
The infoworld test centers central mission has always been to identify the most promising and costeffective products available to it organizations. If we saw nothing else in 2011, we saw opensource communities make long strides from cloud computing to voip to the desktop. Boston, massachusetts, usa monday, march 26th, 2012 free software foundation president richard m. The packt open source awards 2011 have been announced.
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