SourceForge Announces Winners of Fourth Annual Community Choice Awards
Published July 24th, 2009
SourceForge Inc. (Nasdaq: LNUX), sourceforge.com, the global online network for community-driven technology media and e-commerce, today announced the winners of the 2009 SourceForge Community Choice Awards. Now in its fourth year, the Community Choice Awards received the highest number of nominations to date from its community, with more than 47,000 members nominating 4,875 projects.
“The community rocked this year’s awards with more than 185,000 votes, completely blowing last year’s vote total out of the water,” said Ross Turk, Director of Community at SourceForge. “Since its inception, the Community Choice Awards strive to honor the best in open source and capture the collaborative spirit that defines the open source industry.”
Grabbing top honors in four of the 12 categories, including Best Project, PortableApps.com was the big winner of the night.
The 2009 Community Choice Awards winners 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)
SourceForge.net members voted from June 22 through July 20 by visiting http://www.sourceforge.net/cca09. The winners were announced at an exclusive event during the week of the Open Source Convention (OSCON) in San Jose, California. Held at the Agenda Lounge, the Community Choice Awards was attended by SourceForge community members, OSCON attendees and fans of open source, in person and online. In addition to announcing the winners, the event featured music, drinks, giveaways from ThinkGeek, retro games, free tech-related tattoos and more.
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