[plug] [gordon at customtech.com.au: MEDIA ALERT: Winners of the Australian Open Source Awards Announced]

[Kimberly Shelt]

Woohoo :)

I have just chatted with Greg, Michael and Steve live from the
conf dinner.. and the plan is that someone will bring me the 
little statuette back, to Perth and hopefully Perth folks
can all get together for the official handing over ceremony 
with the next 1st Wed Group meeting.. 
I will post details to the appropriate WA lists  when we have them..

Thanks to everyone who support LinMagAu (and me)over the last 6 months..
It is because of the hard work of "everyone" who writes, suggests
or even flames :)(that LinMagAU is a happening thing :):)

As a blatant aside.. if you would like tosupport financially.. 
there is now a "Donate to LinMagAu" PayMate button on the site..
for details, click on the button and read the blurb :)
then if you want make a donation to help the Mag keep going :)

Thanks again everyone.
Kimberly Shelt
--
http://http:www.linmagau.org


----- Forwarded message from Gordon Hubbard <gordon at customtech.com.au> -----

Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 20:33:06 +1000 (EST)
From: Gordon Hubbard <gordon at customtech.com.au>
To: Gordon Hubbard <gordon at customtech.com.au>
Subject: MEDIA ALERT: Winners of the Australian Open Source Awards Announced

MEDIA ALERT: Winners of the Australian Open Source Awards Announced

Live from the Ballroom of the Duxton Hotel Sydney .....

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 2003 Annual Conference
Dinner held tonight in Sydney. Please visit
http://www.auug.org.au/events/2003/auug2003/ for further details.

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

Winners were:

Technology Award
Martin Pool
For the "distcc" distributed compiler.
(http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/projects/distcc).

Application Award
Andrew Tridgell
For rsync. (http://samba.org/rsync/)

Community Award
Kimberley Shelt
Setting up LinMagAu, promoting the cause of open source and highlighting
Australian contributions to the community.
http://www.linmagau.org/

Special Achievement Award
Paul "Rusty" Russell
For Linux Kernel contributions



Details of other nominations can bee seen in the earlier announcement -
http://www.auug.org.au/publications/press/aosa2003voting.html


Gordon Hubbard
Treasurer and Press Secretary, AUUG Inc.





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