OSI Announces Open Source Awards

JohnGrahamCumming writes "There's a story running on ZDNet about how OSI is going to be giving Open Source Awards with cash prizes of up to $10,000. The idea is to create the "Nobel Prizes" of Open Source. Announcement was made yesterday as OSCON with some big names backing the awards (e.g. Sun, OSAF and (interestingly) a major venture capital firm USVP)."

Flabbergasted!

[mao che minh]

$10,000! That's more cash than most OSS developers see in a full year! An Indian programming outfit could run off that kind of funding for years to come! Go ZDNet and Sun!

*ducks*

Hooray!

[Yoda2]

Pick me! Pick me! [sourceforge.net] Oh, wait a second... my project isn't popular and no one contributes to it.

So then

[The Bungi]

The Razzies for this will be called "The Pre-Alpha-Aplha Awards", given out to OSS projects that never make it out of "-1, thinking about it"

Sun

[josh crawley]

I thought we decided that Sun was evil this week. Did I miss a memo?

Re:Flabbergasted!

[OECD]

$10,000! ... An Indian programming outfit could run off that kind of funding for years to come!

That's the Grand Master award, you've gotta be RMS or someone to get that. Most of the awards are $500--you're going to have to find Bangladeshi programmers...

Awards....

[Madsci]

What don't they give awards for nowadays?

This post, Winner, 2003
Best Slashdot Post
Best Use of Consonants in Slashdot Post
Louis K. Albright Award for Achievement in Punctuation

.

coolio

[radiumhahn]

This could entice Microsoft employees to leak windows code! At least in my world it could. You can't have mine! Get your own unicorns! Ack! Spiders!

OSI?

[Anonymous Coward]

I mean the 7 layer stack is nice and all, but don't they know that TCP/IP is the standard these days?

Re:Awards....

[InterruptDescriptorT]

Louis K. Albright Award for Achievement in Punctuation

Slashdot is the last Web site I'd expect to see take this one home...

From the awards ceremony ...

[DogIsMyCoprocessor]

<flamebait>

The nominees in the category of Longest Lived Project to Never Release 1.0 are -

• Enlightenment
• the HURD
• JDOM

And the winner is ... the HURD! (Cue music as RMS goes up to the stage).

</flamebait>

troll leveling.

[Anonymous Coward]

Elfwind the Sorcerer: How can there be trolls? I cast a spell of warding before we set out on this article!

DM Taco: The trolls appeared in a previous /. article *before* you cast the spell, so now there's trolls, okay?

Elfwind: Fine. I cast a spell. Stinking cloud!

DM Taco: Your spell has no adverse effect. In fact, the trolls seem to kind of like it.

Elfwind: Blast these foul beasts! Where is my warrior-friend Ironfist of the mountain?

Ironfist: *yawn* What's all the racket? You need somethin' boss?

Elfwind: I need a little distraction while I mix some components for a fireball spell!

Ironfist: You got it sir! Attacks the trolls

Elfwind: Mixes a few spell components

Ironfist: destroys all the trolls with ease

Ironfist: That was easy....those must've been low-level trolls.

Elfwind: Oh shit! Where did all the trolls go?

DM Taco: In your surprise, you've fumbled the components of your fireball spell, sending your entire party into the sweet embrace of death. Game over.

Entire Party: *CURSES*

The End

And the moral of the story? Always follow the recipe.

Contribute toe?

[Yoda2]

I bet these people [msn.com] would be happy to contribute toe.