UKUUG Award 2005

UKUUG (the UK’s Unix and Open Systems User Group) has made its 2005
Award to   of the School of Electronics and
Computer Science, University of Southampton, for his work on the Open
Archive Software: GNU EPrints.


UKUUG makes this annual award to give particular recognition to the
development of free and open source software in the UK. Christopher wins
a trip to the Open Source Convention in Portland, OR, USA, and support
with costs thanks to O'Reilly, organizers of the convention and Gold
Sponsors of the UKUUG Award, and a £500 cash prize from UKUUG.


‘EPrints is both a practical tool and the crystallization of a
philosophy’, said Christopher. ‘It enables research to be accessible to
all, and provides the foundation for all academic institutions to create
their own research repositories’.


The School of Electronics and Computer Science has been one of the prime
movers in the global movement towards open access publishing. The
University of Southampton is the first UK university to announce that it
would be establishing its own institutional repository and requiring all
its academic staff to self-archive their research.

The judges noted as ‘Highly Commended’ Dr Thomas Leonard’s work on the
free software projects ROX Desktop (a graphical desktop for Linux and
Unix type systems, that he created to combine the elegance of the
filer-centric RISC OS with the power of Linux) and Zero Install (which
combines the simplicity of application bundles with the automatic
dependency handling of package managers). Thomas was awarded his PhD in
Computer Science last summer (2004) from the University of Southampton
and now works there in its School of Electronics and Computer Science.




Notes to Editors
     1. Further information about GNU EPrints is available at:
        
        

http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/

http://software.eprints.org/press

http://software.eprints.org/archives.php


     1. Further information about ROX Desktop and Zero Install is
        available at:
        
        
http://rox.sourceforge.net/

http://zero-install.sourceforge.net/


     1. Photographs of Christopher Gutteridge by Grant Lynch:
        
        
http://www.ukuug.org/images/CGutteridge_web.jpg

http://www.ukuug.org/images/CGutteridge.jpg




UKUUG
The UKUUG (the UK’s Unix and open systems User Group) is a non-profit
organization and technical forum for the advocacy of Unix and Unix-like
operating systems, the promotion of open-source software, and the
advancement of open programming standards and networking protocols.



For further information contact

Leslie Fletcher, UKUUG Campaigns
Tel: +44 161 613 9547 Mobile: +44 77 47 03 89 97


E-mail: Leslie.Fletcher@ukuug.org
or Mike Banahan (UKUUG Council)

E-mail:Mike.Banahan@ukuug.org


http://www.ukuug.org/award/