NZ Open Source Awards
This year's New Zealand Open Source Awards 2010 celebrated some of the outstanding work done with free and open source by New Zealanders and for New Zealanders, focusing on achievements over the last two years.
2010 Winners
Winner - Open Source in Government
IRD’s use of Moodle
Winner - Open Source in Education
Albany Senior High School
Winner - Open Source in Business
Ponoko – the hub of a global personal manufacturing eco-system that brings together creators, digital fabricators, materials suppliers and buyers to make almost anything
Winner - Open Source in the Arts
Ghosts in the Form of Gifts – the use of open source technologies and design to recreate some of the lost treasures of the Te Papa collection from photographs and drawings.
Winner - Open Source Project
SilverStripe – a New Zealand-made CMS that has been downloaded more than 325,000 times globally in less than four years
Winner - Open Source Advocate
Linux.conf.au organisers Andrew & Susanne Ruthven
Winner - Open Source Contributor
Tabitha Roder for One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
Winner - People's Choice Award
Amie McCarron for the Alcoholics Anonymous New Zealand websites; the public facing site, service/members site and annual convention website.
Image: Ghosts in the form of gifts
The free and open source story - in New Zealand and around the world - is one that people want to hear. Free and open source technology promises to deliver new opportunities for collaboration and innovation within the New Zealand public and private sectors.
This year's Awards will bring to the fore some of the outstanding work done with free and open source by New Zealanders and for New Zealanders, focusing on achievements over the last two years.
