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Open Source Awards List
The next Merit Awards will be issued in Q3 2004. Please send in
nominations at any time.
Awards Issued
Q3 2004
Grand Master |
Larry Wall
Larry Wall is best known for the Perl programming language, but this award also
honors his contribution of the program patch which stimulated Open Source Software
development by enabling multiple people to contribute small changes to software in an efficient and elegant manner.
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Special Award |
Mitchell Baker
For leadership of the Mozilla project.
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Q2 2004
Merit Award |
Tom Lord/GNU arch
GNU arch is a revision control system, similar in purpose to tools such as CVS, SCCS, and Subversion.
It is used to keep track of the changes made to a source tree and to help programmers combine and
otherwise manipulate changes made by multiple people or at different times.
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Merit Award |
Martin Pool/distcc
distcc is a program to distribute builds of C, C++, Objective C or Objective C++ code across several
machines on a network. distcc should always generate the same results as a local build, is simple
to install and use, and is often two or more times faster than a local compile.
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Merit Award |
The GIMP
The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program: a piece of software suitable for
such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
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Q1 2004
Merit Award |
Julian Seward/valgrind
valgrind is a debugger for x86-based Linux systems
that can automatically detect memory management and threading bugs eliminating
some of software development's most difficult tasks.
Read more about this winner here.
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Merit Award |
VideoLAN
VideoLAN enables the streaming of all video types on an TCP/IP network including of
MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial
television channels and live videos. It includes both the streaming and display software.
Read more about this winner here.
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Merit Award |
Paul Davis/Jack
Jack is a low-latency audio server designed for creating and editing high-quality audio on open source operating systems.
Read more about this winner here.
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Merit Award |
pango
pango provides a framework for the layout and rendering of internationalized text.
It supports all the world's languages through Unicode and helps open source software reach all the
world's communities.
Read more about this winner here.
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