NZ Open Source Awards Night

I have a lot of fun last week at the Open Source Awards. Got to meet in real life a few people I only had met online, and enjoyed some great conversation along with the drink and food.

The winners were:

Winner – Open Source in Government
IRD’s use of Moodle

Winner – Open Source in Education
Albany Senior High School

Winner – Open Source 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

Winner – Open Source 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.

Winner – Open Source Project
SilverStripe – a New Zealand-made CMS that has been downloaded more than 325,000 times globally in less than four years

Winner – Open Source Advocate
Linux.conf.au organisers Andrew & Susanne Ruthven

Winner – Open Source Contributor
Tabitha Roder for One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)

Winner – People’s Choice Award
Amie McCarron for the Alcoholics Anonymous New Zealand websites; the public facing site, service/members site and annual convention website.

Very deserving winners, and many great finalists also.

I was one of the judges, and asked to present the Open Source in Government award. The video has been placed on You Tube, so I’ve embedded it below, for anyone interested.