The New Zealand Open Source Awards celebrate open source developments in New Zealand at a biannual awards ceremony, held since 2007. The awards are run by the New Zealand Open Source Society.
The New Zealand Open Source Awards celebrate open source developments in New Zealand at a biannual awards ceremony, held since 2007. The awards are run by the New Zealand Open Source Society.
| 2007 [1] | 2008 [1] | 2010 [2] [3] | 2012 [4] [5] [6] | 2014 [7] [8] | 2016 [9] | 2018 [10] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open source use in government | State Services Commission (ICT Branch) | Radio New Zealand | IRD's use of Moodle | GeoNet Rapid (by GNS Science) | Common Web Platform | DigialNZ and National Library of New Zealand for DigitalNZ | The Service Innovation Lab for the Rates Rebates Alpha and Family Services Directory API |
| Open source use in business | Zoomin / ProjectX | Egressive / Dave Lane | Ponoko | Totara Learning Management System | DiamondMind – DiamondAge and Mindkits | Catalyst for The Catalyst Cloud | Sparks Interactive for the Drupal Sector distribution and sector.org.nz |
| Open source use in education [in later years also included Social Services and Youth] | New Zealand Summer of Code | Mahara | Albany Senior High School | Manaiakalani | Catalyst Open Source Academy | City Housing, Wellington City Council for Wellington City Housing Computer Hubs | AUT Library For Tuwhera |
| Open source software project | New Zealand Open GPS | SilverStripe | SilverStripe | Piwik | fyi.org.nz | Paul Cambell for The OneRNG project | The Faucet Foundation - SDN Controller project |
| Open source contributor | Chris Cormack for Koha | Robert O'Callahan | Tabitha Roder for One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) | Grant McLean for work on Perl and wider community | Andrew Bartlett for Samba4 leadership | Eileen McNaughton’s contribution to CiviCRM | Victoria Spagnolo - for contributions to the Drupal Project and Drupal Migrate |
| Open source advocate | Linux.conf.au organisers Andrew & Susanne Ruthven | ||||||
| Open source in social services [in later years was merged into broadened Education category] | Vet Learn | FLOSS Manuals | Soup Hub and WCC Housing Computer Hubs | UC CEISMIC programme | |||
| Open science award – creating the Commons | GNS Science for Data Policy and Services | Auckland Bioengineering Institute | The Cacophony Project for bring back the bird song to New Zealand | Kea Sightings Project for the Kea Database | |||
| Open art award | Select Parks | Bronwyn Holloway-Smith for "Ghosts in the Form of Gifts" (Te Papa) | Bronwyn Holloway-Smith for "Whisper Down The Lane" | Birgit Bachler for "Copy Wildly" | Make/Use Team, Massey University for Make/Use: User Modifiable Zero Waste Fashion | Wellington Independent Arts Trust for Urban Dream Brokerage | |
| Open source people's choice award | Amie McCarron for the Alcoholics Anonymous NZ websites | Sofa Statistics | Rob Elshire | Brent Wood for services to Geospatial Open Source in New Zealand and Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Priv-O-Matic | Whare Hauora sensors project Whare Hauora Sensors | ||
| Promoting open culture | Warrington School for the Ubuntu Room radio station | ||||||
| Clinton Bedogni prize for open systems | Robert O'Callahan | Koray Atalag (University of Auckland) | Peter Gutmann | Dr. Richard Lobb | |||
| Open Source special awards | Brenda Wallace and Lillian Hetet-Owen | ||||||
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