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The 2000 Beanies

Category: Best 'Deserving of a $2,000 Award' 28

Posted by Hemos from the who-wants-to-be-a-dua-thousandaire dept.
Do you disagree with our categories? Think that some deserving soul is being passed over? Or you think that you deserve $2,000? Well, this is the catch-all bin of the awards - so head over to the nomination booth and let your voice be heard.
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Category: Best Deserving of a $2,000 Award

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  • Nitrozac made Linux SEXY! (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Just thought I'd suggest Nitrozac, the hardest working cartoonist in this universe. She's done more than anyome to turn geeks like Rob, Jeff, eric Raymond, and Linus into sex symbols. She's made Linux sexy, and that's gotta be worth millions, if not 2000 bucks!

  • Re:Legal Defense (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    How about making an award to a group that has to defend itself from an unfair lawsuit or other persecution, such as Etoy.

    Oh, good idea! Give $2000 to a bunch of poseurs whose major accomplishment is putting the word "Playboy" in their META tags.

    The Leonardo people, on the other hand, might actually deserve a couple of bucks.

  • How about the guys working on the ATI TV Tuner drivers? They've managed to create a successful petition, hack a chipset without any documentation, get a multi-billion dollar company (ATI) to change it's Linux philosophy (and now provide some docs), and create a useable interface for the popular ATI tv tuner cards. See http://www.core.binghamton.edu/ati/ [binghamton.edu] and http://www.core.binghamton.edu/~ins omnia/gatos/ [binghamton.edu]. Congrats and thanks to Bob, Insomnia/Stea, Oyvind, and others.
  • I think either livid or freemware would be good for this category. Livid for their defense and for the project itself which is extrememly important. And FreeMWare because we really need an open-source version of VMWare and they need the cash to continue the work.

  • GNU HURD (Score:1)

    by kzin ( 3595 )
    This is a very important and promising project. First of all, I think
    it is important to have more than a single alternative for a kernel to
    use on Open Source (well, mostly GNU) systems. Secondly, GNU HURD [gnu.org] is a
    microkernel, which is a certified Way of the Future, will be much more
    extendable, flexible, and will scale better for SMP machines with lots
    of processes. And most importantly, the HURD, although
    UNIX-compatible, does not attempt to merely mimic UNIX but can
    potentially function in much different and diverse ways that the UNIX
    architecture cannot even dream of. Therefore: HURD.
  • VMware has done more than most any other app to free people from having to duel-boot to "that proprietary OS", but it has it's own closed-source-suid-root problems. Freemware has incredible potential and has already shown itself capable of fulfilling that potential.
  • I just nominated segfault's Leonard Richardson [crummy.com]. Not only does he write some of the funnier stories [segfault.org] (this [segfault.org] being my favorite), he is also one of the two main cofounders and coders of backend stuff. Granted, everything on segfault is not hilarious, but you have to work with what you're given. Plus, imagine reading the stuff that gets weeded out. Ugh.

    Not to slight the hard work of Scott James Remnant (the other main segfault guy), but Scott is often recognized in press interviews and in friends and family stock offerings of Linux IPOs. And Leonard is chained to his Internet connection fixing things while Scott is off having a life or something. I say $2,000 is a small price to pay to keep a sense of humor about things. After all, laughter is the best medicine and who can put a price tag on your health? :)

  • NASA (Score:1)

    by mbrod ( 19122 )
    They can't do much with $2000 but it would make a good statememt of support from the geek community.


    MBrod
  • I've never gotten an award, so I should definitely get it ;-) Well, seriously though, maybe this one should go to Bruce Perens. He certainly deserves an award of sorts.
  • How about making an award to a group that has to defend itself from an unfair lawsuit or other persecution, such as Etoy. (Unfortunately, there's no shortage of nominees for this category.)
  • Yes, the ATI TV tuner guys where the reason
    I switched to Linux - as soon as they finished
    their first working player, there was nothing
    that Linux couldn't do better than Windows.
  • I just figured I would nominate Pygmy Pony Records, at http://www.pygmypony.com for this category. I believe they are the only open source record label out there. Not only that but they also seem to have some pretty good artists, one of them always seems to tear up the charts on mp3.com. Check them out.
  • Yes, believe it or not, I just nominated myself.
    Kind of a selfish thing to do, I know, but after all this is one of the "Fun categories".

    Why should I get the $2K Award?

    Well, I have done all sorts of great things that have helped mankind to develop further!
    I am solely responsible for all the wonderful things that have happened to all of you in the last 100 years!
    I am the force that makes the sun come up every morning!
    It is I, and I alone, who can make all your dreams come true!

    And... and... I'll give you free Jolt!

    Oh, what am I trying to pull here?
    I need it to buy Quake 3 Arena and 31337 litres of Dr Pepper!


    Now, ask yourself: Is that not reason enough?

  • ME!! (Score:1)

    by emmons ( 94632 )
    well....

    to be honist, I think this one should go the the EFF for their recent work defending the web aginst the DVD CCA.

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  • let's give the money to them, so they make even a little profit

  • First of all, I'd like to nominate all of us that is using Linux and helping the community by offering help, coding or just by using it...

    Second, I'd like to nominate Carsten 'Rasterman' Haitzler for his great work with Enlightenment

    Third, I'd nominate myself if everyone else hadn't already done it... So if I say freshmeat, you say? That's right, Patrick Lenz!
  • I (Mordred) have a wonderful idea about how to deal with this award:

    How 'bout donating it to MY open source project, Kosmos Online? Most people/projects only have ONE reason to receive a prestigious award like this... here's ten!

    1) The developers are known as KODPIECE (Kosmos Online Developers, Proprieters, Instigators, Engineers, Creators, Etc.)

    2) Money awarded as prizes will be used to further the project (an open-source online RPG) by buying things like hardware and bandwidth.

    3) KOSMOS stands for Kinky Online Sex: Mordred's Only Salvation. I came up with Kosmos first, but we needed something for it to stand for... and this one won. :(

    4) The main coder (me) is only 15. His mental age is 3.

    5) I just got my age wrong. (I'm really 16) What's even worse is that I had to have it pointed out to me.

    6) We have better makefiles than Verge 2.

    7) I'm running low on Coke, and the Chinese take-out next door is threatening to seize possession of my computer. If this happens, it would be a tragic blow.

    8) We're based in Canada, so $2000.00 US is really $4000.00 for us!

    9) ESR doesn't need any more money after the VA Linux IPO, and if he doesn't win one of these Beanie awards I'll eat my hat.

    10) Think of it as Charlie Brown's Christmas tree... "All it needs is a little love". (But money will do in a pinch)

    Seriously, folks, Kosmos Online is a mildly cool project, which seems to be spawning more work on "spin-off" projects than on Kosmos Online itself... cool stuff like turning Loki Software's SDL into a GL Context selector, rewriting POV-Ray to double as a texture generator, research into real-time raytracing engines for use in games, and all sorts of interesting stuff... so think about it. For more information, drop me an e-mail at vining@pacificcoast.net.

    Kosmos Online... the *very* alternative choice.

    ... we now return you to your regular Trolls.

  • The founder of project Bartleby. He put Emily Post on line. Now if only more Open Source advocates would read it...

  • Yutaka Sato has worked on this proxy software and made it the "swiss army knife" of proxy servers. take a look at: the DeleGate Home Page [delegate.org] and see for yourself.
  • Although I dont't think he deserves 2k over all the other worthy entries, rlk [tiac.net] certainly deserves the new printer to go in new directions with his code. That's one type of awards I'd like to seen given out: Hardware for those that want to code but don't get the hardware. I've donated hardware to a kernel hacker (albeit only 60 bucks worth), have you?
  • http://members.tripod.com/~random___boy/nephew.jpg

    The poor kid was born on x-mas day, he deserves this much. :)
  • The Hunger Site [thehungersite.com] is the first useful appliance of advertisement (They convert hits into food for suffering countries).

    --
    Dipl. Inf. (FH) Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla
    "(to) optimize: Make a program faster by improving the algorithms rather than by buying a faster machine."

  • With no funding, OpenVerse is most deserving of a $2000 award.

    http://openverse.org [openverse.org] is where you can see info on this project. We could use the money to pay for the web space we are using.




    You are a threat to free speech and must be SILENCED!

  • My vote goes to a pair of students at Drew University. Erik Larsson and Del Sockel. In 3 weeks they managed to create a Web based helpdesk tracking and asset management software based completely upon open-source/freeware materials. MySQL, PHP, PERL, and JavaScript being the base of the work, and this is without any prior experience with PHP or MySQL.

    And now they're rewriting it with mod_perl to be an apache module content handler that can do it all much faster and more reliably. Sorry to ramble, but I tend to think it's impressive.

    --John

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