UKUUG - Open Source Award

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UKUUG announces Open Source Award 2003 


The UK UNIX User Group recently announced details of its Open Source
Award for 2003.

This is to be an annual prize, open to current students in UK Education,
and will be awarded for a significant contribution to the free and open
source community. 

The judging panel, made up from representatives from UKUUG, UK computer
science departments and the open source community, will consider
articles or papers, software products, or other contributions to open
source.

The value of the award is £500.  In addition to this prize, O'Reilly UK
Ltd. (www.oreilly.co.uk) is also providing a pass to the 2003 Open
Source Convention (conferences.oreillynet.com) together with a further
£500 to cover travel and accommodation costs.

The winner will be asked to give a talk at the UKUUG's annual Linux
conference being held in Edinburgh in 2003 
(www.ukuug.org/events/linux2003/).

Full details of the award have been circulated to all UK University
computer science departments and computer centres.

See www.ukuug.org/osa/ for more information



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Notes to Editors:

For further information:


UKUUG Chairman: Charles Curran
Tel:  07973 231 870
E-mail: charles.curran@ukuug.org


UKUUG Administration: Jane Morrison
Tel:  01763 273475
E-mail: office@ukuug.org



The UKUUG was formed to represent users of UNIX and Open systems in the
UK.  It uniquely caters for the needs of people in this area and is
completely independent of specific hardware and software vendors.  Any
profits are used to further the activities of the organisation.


28/11/02



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