All,
The Community Innovation Program Awards Committee is pleased to
announce the winners of this year's contest. We were impressed by the
quality of the submissions and by the work demonstrated, and on behalf
of the OpenOffice.org Community, look forward to working with the
Entrants.
There were four award levels, Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Honourable
Mention. We heartily congratulate everyone who won! We have only named
the team leaders here and regret that we were unable to fully name all
the team members at the time of this announcement but in the coming
week will strive to publish brief interviews and photos of the
winners. We will also try to keep interest going in the work done.
Finally, we hope that the successes demonstrated here by the
contestants (and there were many) will excite other groups to
participate in the next competition. The monetary reward is
significant, but we believe that the real beneficiary is the
Community: We all benefit from the work done in this program.
We describe the proces used below, and for each category state how
much cash, in US dollars, each winner was awarded by Sun Microsystems,
out of the USD $175,000 allotted OpenOffice.org. (The Committee
adjusted the sums to be given so those in the Gold/Silver/Bronze
categories won more money than otherwise stipulated.) A table listing
winners is at http://development.openoffice.org/community_innovation_program_winners.html
, and you can find this message, with links to the projects worked
on, at http://development.openoffice.org/awardees-2008.html .
A full description of the rules can be found at http://development.openoffice.org/community_innovation_program.html
.
The Winners
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** Gold
Each will receive USD $13,750
Per Eriksson, “QA Track 2.0.” Category: Tools
Maximilian Odendahl, “Notes2”.” Category: Technical, Core
Daniel Naber (Team Leader), “LanguageTool OpenOffice.org Integration
and Community Website.” Category: Special
László Németh, “Spell Checking.” Category: Technical, Core
Regina Henschel, “Improve numerical stability of spreadsheet
functions,” Category: Technical, Core
Dominique Archambault (Team Leader), “odt2dtbook.” Category:
Technical, Extensions
** Silver
Each will receive USD $6,875.00
Jean-Marie Gouarné, “The Perl OpenDocument Connector.” Category:
Technical, Extensions
Dmitri Popov, “Sun Report Builder User Guide.” Category:
Documentation
Bruno Cavaler Ghisi, “mOOo (Mobile OpenOffice.org).” Category:
Special
Gabriel Gurley, “Construction of Course Training Package for
OpenOffice.org 3.” Category: Documentation
Anthony Bryan “Metalink.” Category: Tools"
Olivier Ronez, “The Dicollecte Project.” Category: Tools
Jim White, “Groovy For OpenOffice.” Category: Technical, Extensions
Helge Kraak, “Member Database.” Category: Special
** Bronze
Each will receive USD 4,583.00
Ihsan Faisal, “Indonesian Translation of Writer Guide.” Category:
Documentation
Holger Brandl, “OpenCards.” Category: Special
Joshua Martin (Team Leader), “FLUX User Interface.” Category:
Special
Guillaume Maillard (Team Leader), “Java + Open Document =
jOpenDocument.” Category: ODF
Kálmán Szalai (KAMI), “Extensions of Extras.” Category:
Technical, Extensions
Filip Molčan, “OOoPortal.com.” Category: Community
** Honourable Mention
Dysmas de Lassus, “Swiss knife - On screen formating tool.”
Category: Tools
Alan C. Baird, “Screenwright(R) screenplay formatting template.”
Category: Technical, Extensions
Roland Mundloch, “myPWDs addon.” Category: Special
Markus Schneider, “VN Thesis Template Tutorial / VN Thesis
Template.” Category: Documentation.*
These (one is not eligible for a cash award) will each receive USD
$3,333.00
* Not eligible for cash award.
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Discussion
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The Program Committee followed the provisions of the Program Rules. We
attended to the evaluations of the Project Leads and also looked to
community participation and the ways in which the Entry benefited the
OpenOffice.org Community. In allotting prize money, at our discretion
we granted the Gold, Silver, Bronze winners more than was specified in
the Rules, as the work done merited it.
There were six categories of interest:
* Technical: core code, extensions, ports
* Community: new methods of community cooperation, new marketing
efforts, artwork, and other efforts that significantly further
OpenOffice.org use and development, or the efficiency and
effectiveness of the Community
* Tools: those that help the community build, distribute, work on
OpenOffice.org, including infrastructure development, localization
tools, as well as a working environment, management system, and other
developer support
* OpenDocument Format (ODF): work that advances ODF development,
OpenOffice.org's implementation, or makes the ODF more accessible
through the ODF Toolkit project
* Documentation: both enduser and developer documentation and/or
training materials; articles on OpenOffice.org for developers or
endusers
* Special: a catch-all category to submit innovative Entries that
significantly further OpenOffice.org, its applications and projects,
and furthers the Community as a whole
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Entrants were required to submit their work according to the category
of their interest, and could only submit an entry to one category. Our
judgment criteria were:
* Originality, which includes the nature of the problem addressed and
the innovative nature of the Entry;
* The difficulty of the Entry, which includes the nature of the
problem addressed and the difficulty in fashioning a solution;
* The current relevance of the Entry to the OpenOffice.org Community,
and its completeness;
* The extent to which the Entry provides utility to the Community
either by providing code that the Community uses and values or by
fostering the Community's growth and development or; and
* Community participation by the Entrant in developing the Entry.
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We congratulate the winners and firmly believe that this contest has
strengthened the Community and extended its reach. We anticipate that
in subsequent years, we will see yet more interesting and ambitious
work.
--- The Program Committee
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