Innovation in Open Source
Sun Microsystems granted $1 Million to the Open Source Community Innovation Awards recipients as a part of its commitment to feely available open source technologies. These winners received recognition for outstanding contributions to the worldwide Open Solaris, OpenJDK, NetBeans, GlassFish, OpenOffice.org and OpenSPARC communities.
The Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program is designed to foster innovation within each open source community. Sun engineer and GlassFish community lead Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart remarks that this year's contests brought "great diversity of contributions, code and non-code, from community members throughout the world."
Each open source community had its own set of rules and judging criteria for the contest, and the winners ranged "from professors and students in academia to developers working in the industry" says Shrenik Mehta, Senior Director of Frontend Technologies and Sun's OpenSPARC program. These winners "demonstrated extraordinary creativity and collaboration, and their work has fuelled significant growth within the different open source communities" remarks Louis Suarez-Potts, Community Manager of OpenOffice.org.
As for the overall success of the Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program, Anuradha Gunasekara, NetBeans community member and Creator of Cubeºn NetBeans, comments that "it was a wonderful opportunity to bring alive what we truly believe in."
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