On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Ramakrishna Reddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-make-money-with-free-software.html > > > The Dutch Ministry of Finance organized an architecture competition > for which a selected group of architectural offices (unstudio, nox, > ...) and artists were invited, including myself. The goal of the > competition was not to design a building, but the new 5 euro > commemorative coin with the theme 'Netherlands and Architecture'. The > winner will be rewarded with a nice price, but most of all with the > honor: his design will be realized and will be a legal coin within the > Netherlands. > > I approached the subject 'Netherlands and Architecture' from two > points of view. On one hand I paid tribute to the rich Dutch > architecture history and on the other hand to the contemporary quality > of Dutch architecture. These form also the two sides of my coin. > Traditionally the front of the coin needs to portray the queen, while > the back side displays the value of the coin .........
Yes, this is a great example of innovative use of ideas combined with great skills in the selection, creation and application of open source software. It is really an achievement for the creator Stani and also for free software like GIMP, Python etc in that he was able to create such a masterpiece from combining simple tools - the Unix/FOSS philosophy. I hope FSF and PSF take notice of this and use this in their web pages as a great example of the power of such tools. Also note that this is the same guy who is the creator of SPE (Stani's Python Editor), a really good Python editor written in Python. Need to truly appreciate his multi-talented genius. > > > -- > Ramakrishna Reddy GPG > Key ID:31FF0090 > Fingerprint = 18D7 3FC1 784B B57F C08F 32B9 4496 B2A1 31FF 0090 > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > Regards, -- -Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
