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Awards recognise open source leaders
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| The second annual Open Source Awards were held in Wellington last night,
| handing out awards to open source software users and developers who have made
| an impact at home and abroad.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/devt/D8348EE39BC433C2CC2574CE00820FFD
Sun Microsystems Recognizes Open Source Innovation with Announcement of
OpenSPARC Community Innovation Award Winners
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| Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the winners of the
| OpenSPARC Community Innovation Awards Contest designed to fuel innovation
| around chip technology. The contest was part of Sun's Open Source Community
| Innovation Awards Program, a multi-year program running across several open
| source communities with a $1 Million total prize.
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http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews+articleid_2648709.html
Recent:
New Zealand Open Source Awards 2008 open for nominations
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| New Zealand Open Source Awards 2008 open for nominations The 2008 New Zealand
| Open Source Awards are open for nominations until 18 July 2008. This year's
| Awards will focus particularly on achievements over the last twelve months
| and follow the successful inaugural event in 2007.
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http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=7785
Strong line-up for second open source awards
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| Among the finalists for the second Open Source Awards are an online document
| converter, a typesetting engine and the State Services Commission’s broadband
| map.
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| [...]
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| The sponsors were keen to do it again too, both industry giants, such as
| Google, Red Hat and Sun Microsystems, as well as local players, says Daish.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/89208194BDC3A2AACC2574BE000C0301
Radio NZ rolls out Ogg Vorbis
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| Hulse says the use of Ogg Vorbis has been in the planning stage for a while,
| but was delayed while he worked out a way to rationalise Radio New Zealand’s
| storage.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/48FDE3BF317797CECC2574C500031C60
Broadband map released under open source policy
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| The State Services Commission, which contracted local companies to develop
| the map, has formally allowed release of the map’s code under an open source
| licence. This will allow other developers to add new ideas to the map and
| other users, such as local and perhaps overseas governments and people with
| other mapping applications to adapt the code to their own uses.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/A7C6A63DF84733F0CC25745500241494
Kiwi web collaboration outfit goes open
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| A couple of weeks back, a small New Zealand-based company, OnlineGroups.Net,
| released the source code for its online collaboration platform, GroupServer.
| When a big company releases source code for anything, it's often termed a
| risky move. For a small company, the risks are more or less the same.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19127/1148/
Standards NZ asks Microsoft staffer to 'rectify' statements
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| Standards New Zealand has asked a Microsoft employee to rectify statements
| made in an email to the Trinidad & Tobago Computing Society about New Zealand
| OOXML advisor Matthew Holloway.
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| The emails were sent as standards organisations around the world engage in
| sometimes heated debate over whether Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) file
| format should be accepted as a standard alongside the Open Document Format.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/0B47485921D44083CC2574110068B1B6
Open source and hiring: Is NZ behind the times?
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| While being involved in hiring decisions in the Silicon Valley through my
| work with US clients, I can definitely confirm this. Knowing your way around
| open source, being familiar with open source tool chains and the like are all
| valuable skills to have. More and more businesses are built on top of open
| source technologies, so therefore many employers demand these skills and
| employees want to further these skills.
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http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/5382
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