Andover.Net Announces Nominees For First-Annual Slashdot Open Source Community
Awards
Acton, Mass.--January 21, 2000--Andover.Net (NASDAQ: ANDN), the Internet's leading
Linux destination, today announced nominees for the first-annual Slashdot Open Source
Community Awards, also known as the Slashdot Beanie Awards. The awards, sponsored
by Slashdot, the "News for Nerds: Stuff that matters" Website, enable members of
the open source community to take the contest into their own hands. From January
3 through January 16, Slashdot founders Rob CmdrTaco" Malda and Jeff "Hemos" Bates
invited readers to come to the site and nominate leaders in the Open Source revolution.
Now the votes have been tallied and only the most popular nominees have made the
cut. Readers can begin voting for the finalists today at http://slashdot.org/vote.pl.
Slashdot readers will help Andover.Net and Slashdot award over $100,000 in cash
prizes to important contributors and influential advocates in the Open Source community.
Categories range from the serious $30,000 prize for Most Improved Open Source Project
to the Propeller-Topped Beanie Prize for Best Dressed.
"The Open Source community has produced some really great projects this year.
Andover.Net's goal with the awards is to encourage development and support projects,"
said Bruce Twickler, president and CEO of Andover.Net. "We look forward to recognizing
the important contributors and celebrating them at one great Slashdot party."
Beginning today, polls will be open on Slashdot. Readers can log on to cast votes
for favorite nominees in each category. In keeping with the open source philosophy,
the voting process is extremely flexible--until voting closes on January 31, readers
can change their selections as often as they would like.
The envelope please... To honor winners, Andover.Net and Slashdot will be throwing
a Beanie Bash on February 3 from 7 pm to 10 pm at the China Club located at 268
West 47th Street in New York City. Slashdot fans are invited to enjoy lots of food,
free beer and tons of geeky fun. But there's only room for 1,200 people--so get
there early and get a good seat. Winners will be announced in a live Webcast from
the party. It'll be a Linux love-fest!
For the people, by the people Slashdot readers had a lot of Open Source pioneers
to choose from--and there was a lot riding on their collective decisions. They rose
to the challenge and picked the best of the best. The top nominees in each category
are:
$30,000 Prize for Most Improved Open Source Project: GNOME- Mozilla
- KDE
- LiViD
- PHP
- Wine
$10,000 Prize for Most Improved Kernel Module- USB
- ALSA
- ReiserFS
- Video4Linux
$10,000 Prize for Unsung Hero- Alan Cox
- David Dawes
- Donald Becker
- Jordan K. Hubbard
- Brian Paul
$10,000 Prize for Best Newbie Helper- Sensei
- Matt Welsh
- Havoc Pennington
- Tom Christiansen
$10,000 Prize for Most Deserving Open Source Charity- Free Software Foundation
- Software In The Public Interest
- Apache Software Foundation
- The XFree86 Project
$10,000 Prize for Best Open Source Advocate- Eric S. Raymond
- Bruce Perens
- Richard Stallman
- Linus Torvalds
$2,000 Prize for Best Unix Desktop Eyecandy- Enlightenment
- Propaganda
- XScreenSaver
- GNOME
- KDE
$2,000 Prize for Best Unix Desktop Earcandy- XMMS
- mpg123
- ALSA
- EsounD
$2,000 Prize for Best Desktop Theme- BlueSteel
- Blueheart
- AbsoluteE
- BrushedMetal
- Cyrus
$2,000 Prize for Best Open Source-Related Book- Open Sources
- Programming Perl
- Perl Cookbook
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar
$2,000 Prize for Best Perl Module- DBI
- CGI
- CPAN
- LWP
$2,000 Prize for Best Apache Module- mod_perl
- mod_php
- mod_ssl
- mod_rewrite
$2,000 Prize for Best Open Source Text Editor- Vim
- Emacs
- XEmacs
- Pico
- Joe
$2,000 Prize for Most Deserving of a $2,000 Award- Alan Cox
- Debian
- Linus Torvalds
- LiViD
$2,000 Prize for Best Designed Interface in a Graphical Application- The GIMP
- Mozilla
- XMMS
- Enlightenment
$2,000 Prize for Best Designed Interface in a Non-Graphical Application- Pine
- Lynx
- Mutt
- Emacs
- Midnight Commander
Why Nots? Open Source has a lighter side--no one knows that better than CmdrTaco
and Hemos--so Slashdot will also honor eight lucky winners with the Why Nots. Winners
of these just-for-fun awards will receive the geekiest prize of all--a propeller-topped
beanie--presented with a big, warm hug from Slashdot staffer Jonathan "Cowboy Neal"
Pater. The top nominees in the Why Not categories are:
Best Dressed- Rasterman
- Tux
- RMS
- Alan Cox
- Larry Wall
Favorite Slashdot Author- CmdrTaco
- Hemos
- roblimo
- Jon Katz
Favorite Slashdot Comment Poster- Anonymous Coward
- Tom Christiansen
- Bruce Perens
- John Carmack
- BOredAtWork
Best Slashdot Story of 1999- Hellmouth
- Suckdot
- Quickies
Big Dumb Patent Bully- Amazon.com
- Unisys
Big Dumb Domain Bully- Etoys
- Network Solutions
- Microsoft
- Archie Comics
Clue Stick Award for FUD in Journalism- ZDNet
- Jesse Berst
- Microsoft
- Bob Metcalfe
- John Dvorak
The Hemos Award (only Hemos is eligible)- Hemos
"Going through all the nominations has been a blast," said Malda. "Our readers are
very opinionated--there have been some excellent submissions and some that were
pretty funny. Overall, I don't think I could have done a better job if I had made
the selections myself."