Winners of the Australian Open Source Awards Announced

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PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

           Winners of the Australian Open Source Awards Announced

MELBOURNE, Australia -- 6 September 2002 -- The Australian UNIX and Open
Systems User Group (AUUG, Inc.) today announced the winners of the
inaugural Australian Open Source Awards. The awards encourage and
recognise the excellence and dedication of Australians contributing in
the Open Source arena.

The awards ceremony took place during the AUUG 2002 Annual Conference
Dinner held last night in Melbourne. Please visit
http://www.auug.org.au/conf/auug2002/ for further details.

The Australian Open Source Awards are sponsored by Silicon Breeze
(http://www.siliconbreeze.com), who design and provide the solid gold
"tux" award statues which embody the open source spirit.

The awards were given in four categories: technology, application,
community, and special achievement. The first three awards were decided
by the popular vote of the AUUG membership, and the special achievement
category was judged by committee. Membership of AUUG is open to any
individual or corporation with an interest in open computing
technologies.

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

The nominees were:


 Luke
 Mewburn     For work on the core NetBSD team (http://www.netbsd.org/).

 Eric Young  For work on SSLeay (http://www.psy.uq.edu.au/~ftp/Crypto/).

 Darren      For work on ipfilter
 Reed        (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html).

 Andrew
 Cagney      For work on gdb (http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/).

The winner was Eric Young.

The Application Award
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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 complex scientific calculations.

The nominees were:


 Peter Miller      For work on Aegis (http://aegis.sourceforge.net/).

 Justin Clift      For the postgreSQL documentation website
                   (http://www.postgresql.org/).

 Andrew            For work on Active (http://active.org.au/, more at
 Nicholson         http://indymedia.org/).

 Matthew Chapman   For work on rdesktop (http://www.rdesktop.org/).

The winner was Matthew Chapman.

The Community Award
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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.

The nominees were:


 Anthony Towns         For work as the release manager on Debian's 
                       "Woody" release (http://www.debian.org/).

                       For marketing and community relations work with
                       OpenOffice.org (http://www.openoffice.org/),
 Jacqueline McNally    Computer Angels (http://www.ca.asn.au/), Perth
                       Linux Users' Group (PLUG)
                       (http://www.plug.org.au/),
                       and the Society of Linux Professionals Western
                       Australia (SLPWA) (http://www.slpwa.asn.au/).

 Con Zymaris           For editing AUUGN for many years.

 Christopher           For co-founding Pandaemonium, the WA BSD users
 Kings-Lynne           group.

The winner was Con Zymaris.

Special Achievement Ward
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The winner was Andrew Tridgell for his work on SAMBA, the seamless file
and print service for SMB/CIFS (Windows) clients.

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About AUUG Incorporated
AUUG Inc. is the Australian UNIX and Open Systems User Group, a
professional association for end users, corporations, developers and
vendors that promotes UNIX® and related systems, including Linux and
BSD.  Dating from 1975, AUUG is a national body with chapters that
organize local activities in most capital cities.

Visit http://www.auug.org.au/ or contact AUUG at: AUUG Inc., PO Box 366,
Kensington, NSW 2033, Australia. Free Call 1800 625 655, Fax 02 8824
9522, International: Tel +61 2 8824 9511, Fax +61 2 8824 9522, E-mail:
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Press Contact
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Treasurer and Press Secretary, AUUG Inc.
<Gordon.Hubbard@auug.org.au>
Tel: 02 9659 9590
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