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Posted by kdawson on Saturday April 26, 2008 @02:00PM from the singing-the-unsung dept.

chromatic writes "Google and O'Reilly have published the Call For Open Source Awards 2008 Nominations. These awards, given at OSCON 2008, recognize individual contributors who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and collaboration in the development of open source software. The nomination process is open to the entire open source community, and nominations close on May 15. Here's your chance to sing the praises of previously unsung hackers."

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Requested Category (Score:5, Funny)

by eldavojohn ( 898314 ) * writes: <`eldavojohn' `at' `gmail.com'> on Saturday April 26, 2008 @02:08PM (#23208074) Journal

They're missing a category for the "It's a Trap! Award" as I would like to nominate The Prince of Darkness for his work with OOXML 'community acceptance.'

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Re:First Post (Score:2, Funny)

by joNDoty ( 774185 ) writes: on Saturday April 26, 2008 @02:09PM (#23208080)

Argh! Looks like I still have a few bugs to work out...

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Re:Requested Category (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday April 26, 2008 @02:24PM (#23208154)

The Prince of Darkness
Hang on, how did Bob Novak get involved in this?

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What might be more fun (Score:5, Funny)

by niceone ( 992278 ) * writes: on Saturday April 26, 2008 @03:27PM (#23208452) Journal

What might be more fun would be one for the worst OSS developers - there could be categories for least notice taken of user requirements, best flaming of dumb newbie questions on the support forums, most hostile to new developers joining the team...

I'm too polite to nominate anyone though.

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I would like to nominate Freenet (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday April 26, 2008 @05:37PM (#23209098)

As the worst Open Source project ever devised. Ten years and its still beta software. I guess that qualifies it for the Vaporware Award of the decade as well. And its written in Java. (cold sweat covers body)

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Do not offend (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday April 26, 2008 @05:38PM (#23209102)

You are a whiny, lazy, lying, sack of shit. That's a nice story you came up with to bash the new kid on the block though. Why are some people so offended by Ubuntu?

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Re:Do not offend (Score:3, Funny)

by Enderandrew ( 866215 ) writes: <enderandrew@@@gmail...com> on Saturday April 26, 2008 @05:42PM (#23209116) Homepage Journal

So says anonymous coward.

Almost everything in my post is easily verifiable.

For the record, I don't take kindly to being called a liar by someone who is not only full of shit themselves, but also unwilling to post under their own name.

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Re:Theo De Raadt (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday April 27, 2008 @12:48AM (#23211608)

Probably a bad idea. I heard he's planning to fork the ceremony later on.

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