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

[Kimberly Shelt]

Thanks Col.

Indeed all the folks in the nomination lists for all the areas
have done so much .. :)

Good to hear you are back.. :)

Kim

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 09:14:20PM +1000, Col wrote:
> Hey congrats Kim,
> Good work requires recognition.  Suck it up while you can...hehehe, Congrats
> to the other nominees also, its always a bummer that so many deserving
> people get whitled down to one winner.  But such is our way of life these
> days.  Take care all and see you back in WA in about 2 weeks (yes finaly
> moving home)
> 
> Cheers
> Col
> 
> Colin Trueman
> _________________________
> Col_1 at bigpond.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kimberly Shelt [mailto:kim at linmagau.org]
> Sent: Thursday, 4 September 2003 9:00 PM
> To: linux-aus at linux.org.au
> Cc: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug] [gordon at customtech.com.au: MEDIA ALERT: Winners of the
> Australian Open Source Awards Announced]
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----