Open Source Awards Finalists
The finalists for the Open Source Awards:
This year there are 31 finalists across eight categories.
SilverStripe, the R Project and the IRD make the finalist list twice, while Tabitha Roder is shortlisted in three categories. The ‘Open Source Use in Business’ and ‘Open Source Project’ Awards were the two most entered categories.
This year’s shortlist reflects the diversity and innovation of open source projects today. Don Christie, Judge and Director of Catalyst IT, which champions the Awards, says: “The popularity of the Business and Project categories reflects the growing foothold open source has in the business world. People are really beginning to see open source not only as a viable alternative to proprietary software, but also as a complementary option to run alongside existing and new software choices.
“This is contrasted by inventive use of open source in the Arts category, which showcases the many possible ways open source software can feed innovation and creativity.”
The Awards are about raising the profile of open source and free software in general and from Thursday 7th October the public can vote for the winner of the ‘People’s Choice’ Award at www.nzosa.org.nz/nominations.
The winners of the Awards will be announced at a gala event on Tuesday 9th November in Wellington. Mark Cubey, Producer of Radio New Zealand’s ‘Saturday Morning with Kim Hill’ will be the MC and Jay Daley, CEO of the New Zealand Registry Service, will be a guest speaker.
The full list of finalists is:
Open Source in Government
IRD’s use of Moodle
NIWA Ocean Survey 20/20 Portal
DigitalNZ’s initiative to make New Zealand digital content easy to find, share and use IRD’s Online Consultation
Open Source in Education
Albany Senior High School
Tabitha Roder for One Laptop per Child (OLPC) R Project – a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics Paul Seiler for contributions to MLE and OERNZ
Open Source Use in Business
Ponoko – the hub of a global personal manufacturing eco-system that brings together creators, digital fabricators, materials suppliers and buyers to make almost anything SilverStripe – a New Zealand-made CMS that has been downloaded more than 325,000 times globally in less than four years MusicHype – an online music venue that uses a custom built ‘Appreciation Engine’
Adaxa – the Adaxa Suite of combined ERP, CRM, Document Management, VoIP, CMS and BI tools
Open Source Use in the Arts
Ghosts in the Form of Gifts – the use of open source technologies and design to recreate some of the lost treasures of the Te Papa collection from photographs and drawings Libsparrow – an artwork entirely based on open source software that has been on show at the Dowse Art Gallery Speed of Sound – a music visualisation installation using open source
Open Source Project
SilverStripe – a New Zealand-made CMS that has been downloaded more than 325,000 times globally in less than four years Kete – a product that enables communities to collaboratively build their own digital libraries, archives and repositories R Project – a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics
Open Source Advocate
Linux.conf.au organisers Andrew & Suzanne Ruthvern Tabitha Roder for One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Software Freedom Day organisers Jayne Wallis & Ruth McDavitt
Open Source Contributor
Tabitha Roder for One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Eion Robb for Pidgin Resolve Digital’s contribution of the Refinery CMS to the Ruby on Rails community Gource – a tool for visualising the history and development of software projects
People’s Choice
(Vote for the winner of this category from 7th October by visiting
www.nzosa.org.nz/nominations.)
Mark Osborne, Albany Senior High School
Lianne Dalziel, MP, for her work as Chair of the Commerce Select Committee
DaviCal – a server for calendar sharing Amie McCarron for the Alcoholics Anonymous NZ websites
NZOSS Public Sector Remix – a project to demonstrate the viability of free open source software on public sector desktops
The Tumanako Project – produces components for several high-power electric motor and battery applications
I’m one of the judges, and it has been great to read about all the different ways people are using open source software. For me open source is not about cost, but about collaboration.