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The UK Open Source Awards was first run in 2007 in Glasgow as the Scottish Open Source Awards.

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History

The Scottish Open Source Award event was delivered as a subset of the Scottish Software Awards.

Initially organised by SalesAgility, the awards, as the name implied, were aimed solely at Scottish companies and organisations engaged in or contributing to Open Source projects. The sponsors for the first awards were Sun Microsystems and the keynote speech was given by Simon Phipps (programmer).

2007

  • 1. JPMorgan Chase Glasgow Development Centre for their work on Apache messaging standards for financial services.
  • 2. Enterprise Management Consulting - An Isle of Lewis Linux consultancy for their consistent excellence in delivering and promoting Open Source excellence.

    • 2008

    In 2008, the awards were again held in Glasgow under the auspices of the Scottish Software Awards. The keynote speech was given by Dan Shearer, a member of the Samba project.

  • 1. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) - for AccessApps - over 50 Open Source and freeware Windows applications, running from a USB stick (USB flash drive). Access Apps provides a range of solutions to support writing, reading and planning as well as sensory, cognitive and physical difficulties.
  • 2. Wolfson Microelectronics - for their contributions to the Linux kernel.

    • 2009

    In 2009, the Scottish Software Awards decided to discontinue their event and a decision was made to run The Scottish Open Source Awards as a solo venture. It was also decided to drop the word "Scottish" from the title and to aim to be an inclusive event for all UK based Open Source practitioners.

    The 2009 Event was held in the Informatics Building of the University of Edinburgh in November 2009.

    The 2009 winners were

    2010-2013

    Due to pressures of work, the organisers were unable to run the Awards in these years.

    2014

    The Awards returned to where is now regarded as their spiritual home, the Informatics Building of the University of Edinburgh. Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Systems Integrator CGI, three categories of Awards were created:

    1. Student Awards (£500 prize)

    2. Person/Project

    3. Company/Organisation

    The Awards were organised by SalesAgility, an open source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) consultancy, the authors of the SuiteCRM open source CRM application.

    The Awards Judges were Amanda Brooks, Director of the Origin, a London-based IP law practice, Greg Soper, CEO of SalesAgility and Niall McCarthy, an open source advocate and CEO of the non-profit Emerge-Open.

    The winners were:

    1. Student - Riz Moola

    2. Person/Project - Allan Day of the Gnome Project

    3. Company - Alfresco.

    References

    Open Source Awards – UK Wikipedia
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