AOSA nominations reopened

[AOSA Nominations]

Dear Member,

The Third Annual Australian Open Source Awards nominations process has been 
extended to allow AUUG conference attendees to nominate during this year's 
Winter Conference.

AUUG members and conference attendees 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 you 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 Friday September 3rd.

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, and

NOMINATE NOW!

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