The FOSS Awards

18 Oct 2007

A long long time ago (probably only a few weeks back, knowing my memory), Ian Gilfillan approached me about an awards program for South African students who are involved in FOSS projects.  Earlier this week, he officially announced the FOSS Awards.

I think it's a great idea - I'm a big believer in creating local heroes around FOSS.  We don't need international speakers to come tell us things - we have Dwayne Bailey, AJ Venter, Jonathan Carter, Karl Fischer, OpenLab, translate.org.za, Impi, and KnowledgeTree.  And many more people locally who've contributed to or started their own projects, and run their own companies.  The missing part is recognising these heroes and getting them in contact with each other, and the FOSS Awards is a good way to do that for students.

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