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Open Source Awards finalists
Posted by rod@drury.net.nz in TechBiz at 5:07 pm on Wednesday, 26 September 2007

Shaping up to be a good night on the 17th of October for the New Zealand Open Source Awards.

Finalists are:

Open Source Ambassador: Lynne Pope, Waikato Linux Users Group, Peter Harrison

Open Source Contributor: Michael Koziarski, Chris Cormack, Graeme Williams, Matthew Cruickshank

Open Source Software Project: New Zealand Open GPS, Koha, Gerris Flow Solver, Weka

Open Source Use in Government: State Services Commission (E- government Unit), Electoral Enrolment Centre, PHARMAC (Schedule Team), Ministry of Social Development (Applications Development Team)

Open Source Use in Business: Zenbu, Plan HQ, New Zealand Post/Red Hat, Zoomin, Silverstripe

Open Source Use in Education: New Zealand Summer of Code, New Zealand Open Source Virtual Learning Environment, Hagley College of Computing, Eduforge

Open Source Use for Community Organisations: Vet Learn, Citizen Click/ Egressive, Aotearoa Independent Media Centre, Julian Priest (Consume/WSF II)

Open Source for Creativity: Select Parks, Upstage, Stray Cinema, War Art Online (Archives New Zealand), NZHistory.Net, Access Radio

Congratulations to the finalists, there are some very cool innovation stories in these companies.

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