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September 25, 2008
New Zealand Open Source Awards
I'm very grateful to have received an award for "Open Source Contributor" in last night's New Zealand Open Source Awards.
This kind of event --- with a fairly heavy business and government presence --- was rather foreign to me, but nevertheless the evening was a lot of fun.
In accepting, I mentioned that I'm already well rewarded for my open source contributions, and thanked all the people who labour away tirelessly on useful projects without much reward or recognition.
Posted by roc at September 25, 2008 2:39 PM
Comments
On ya Rob!
Posted by: Craig at September 25, 2008 4:58 PM
congrats. you sure deserve it.
Posted by: Pooya Karimian at September 25, 2008 5:01 PM
Congratulations! Very cool for you to receive such an honor.
Posted by: Gen Kanai at September 25, 2008 7:30 PM
It's a great honor, deserve it
Posted by: Jim Green at September 25, 2008 7:43 PM
Your new text engine helps a lot on Thai issue, Roc!
Posted by: markpeak at September 25, 2008 10:29 PM
Hi Rob. I realise these events are not everyone's cup of tea. But it was great you came, won, and helped demonstrate to that audience that some pretty amazing work is going on in the FOSS world.
In short, thank you.
Don
Posted by: Don Christie at September 26, 2008 4:49 PM
Don, thank YOU. Feeling foreign isn't a bad thing, and let me reiterate that I had a great time.
Posted by: Robert O'Callahan at September 27, 2008 4:53 PM
Congratulations, roc!
Posted by: alfred at September 29, 2008 7:43 PM