List of Google–O'Reilly Open Source Award winners
| The Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards | |
|---|---|
| Description | "individuals recognized for dedication, innovation, leadership and outstanding contribution to open source."[1] |
| Presented by | O'Reilly |
| First awarded | 2005-Present |
| Website | http://code.google.com/opensource/osa-hall-of-fame.html |
This is a list of the winners of individuals that won the annual Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards.
2005
- Best Communicator: Doc Searls (co-author of "The Cluetrain Manifesto" and Senior Editor for Linux Journal)
- Best Evangelist: Jeff Waugh (Ubuntu Linux and Gnome desktop environment)
- Best Diplomat: Geir Magnusson Jr
- Best Integrator: D. Richard Hipp (SQLite)
- Best Hacker: David Heinemeier Hansson (Ruby on Rails and 37Signals)
2006
- Best Legal Eagle: Cliff Schmidt (Apache)
- Best Community Activist: Gervase Markham (Firefox)
- Best Toolmaker: Julian Seward (Valgrind)
- Best Corporate Liaison: Stefan Taxhet (OpenOffice.org)
- Best All-around Developer: Peter Lundblad (Subversion)
2007
- Best Community Builder: Karl Fogel
- Best FUD Fighter: Pamela Jones
- Best Accessibility Architect: Aaron Leventhal
- Best Strategist: David Recordon
- Best Outstanding Lifetime Contributions: Paul Vixie
2008
- Best Community Amplifier: Chris Messina - BarCamp, Microformats and Spread Firefox
- Best Contributor: Angela Byron - Drupal
- Best Education Enabler: Martin Dougiamas - Moodle
- Best Interoperator: Andrew Tridgell - Samba and Rsync
- Defender of Rights: Harald Welte - gplviolations.org
2009
- Best Open Source Database Hacker: Brian Aker - Drizzle and MySQL
- Database Jedi Master: Bruce Momjian - PostgreSQL
- Best Community Builder: Clay Johnson - Sunlight Labs
- Best Social Networking Hacker: Evan Prodromou - identi.ca and Laconica
- Best Education Hacker: Penny Leach - Mahara and Moodle
2010
- Jeremy Allison - Samba
- Deborah Bryant
- Brad Fitzpatrick - memcached, Gearman, MogileFS, and OpenID
- Leslie Hawthorn - Google's Summer of Code
- Greg Stein - Subversion, Apache, Python
2011
- Fabrice Bellard - QEMU, FFmpeg
- Karen Sandler - SFLC, licensing
- Keith Packard - X.org
- Ryan Dahl - Node.js
- Konsuke Kawaguchi - Jenkins
References
- ^ "Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards - Hall of Fame". Retrieved 2011-09-17.
- ^ "O'Reilly Open Source Awards 2010". Retrieved 2011-09-17.
- ^ "OSCON 2011: O'Reilly Open Source Awards". Retrieved 2011-09-17.