Australian Open Source Awards [Nominations Close July 30]

[Michael Paddon]

Dear Member,

AUUG is proud to announce the Third Annual Australian Open Source Awards. These 
awards are intended to encourage and recognise the excellence, dedication and
contribution of Australians working in the open source arena.

AUUG members may nominate any Australian citizen or resident in any of three
categories:

    (1) Technology
        Awarded for open source work that provides technology or
        programming infrastructure, such as operating systems, programming
        languages and compilers, or database systems.

    (2) Application
        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.

    (3) Community
        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 or used.

Nominations must be for a specific piece of work or contribution. 
In the case of the Technology and Application award, the work must
must be freely available on the Internet.

AUUG encourages members to nominate worthy recipients for these awards.
Please email all nominations to osa-nominations at auug.org.au, stating the
name of the nominee, the category of award and the reason for nomination.
Nominations close on the 30th of July 2004.

Please help us make this year's awards a success by nominating
proactively and early. Note that winning an award previously does NOT
disqualify a person for being nominated again. Similarly, a previous year's
nomination may be resubmitted if you believe that the work in question is
still worthy of recognition.

AUUG would like to especially acknowledge the contribution of Patryk Zadarnowski
for originating the idea of the awards, and the generous sponsorship of
Silicon Breeze/Linux Jewellery for providing the unique and coveted trophies.

Thanks for your support,

Australian Open Source Awards Committee
osa-nominations at auug.org.au