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SourceForge Community Awards

Posted on 29. Jul, 2009 by Nikhil Sheth in Knowledge, News

Twelve SourceForge community choice awards have been assigned to nine different open source projects.More than 47,000 open source projects were nominated for slots in one of 12 categories, but only 85 were chosen as finalists.

PortableApps won four awards, included “Best Project”. OpenOffice.org, awarded with 3 prizes last year, won ‘just’ an award, resulting the “best project for Government”, getting an amazing share of votes (48.27%).

Speaking of the winners, here they are:

* Best Commercial Open Source Project: PortableApps.com (portableapps.com)
* Best New Project: Eeebuntu (eeebuntu.org)
* Best Project: PortableApps.com (portableapps.com)
* Best Project for Academia: XMind (xmind.net)
* Best Project for Gamers: ScummVM (scummvm.org)
* Best Project for Government: OpenOffice.org (openoffice.org)
* Best Project for Multimedia: Audacity (audacity.sourceforge.net)
* Best Project for the Enterprise: Firebird (firebirdsql.org)
* Best Tool or Utility for Developers: Notepad++ (notepad-plus.sourceforge.net)
* Best Tool or Utility for SysAdmins: phpMyAdmin (phpmyadmin.net)
* Best Visual Design: PortableApps.com (portableapps.com)
* Most Likely to Change the Way You Do Everything: PortableApps.com
(portableapps.com)

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Tags: open source, sourceforge