Details about the Open Source Oscars cross posted from Stephen below. Audacity and phpMyAdmin are tools that we make good use of at our school.<br><br>Has anybody else used ScrummVM before? (seems to be more like a game virtual machine than an emulator)
<br> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScummVM">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScummVM</a><br><br>I was interested to read how some current game developers have provided assistance to this project enable their old games to be playable inside ScrummVM. Scavenging amongst old game titles in the $20 discount bins might pay off after all :-)
<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br>------------------------------<br><br><span class="gmail_quote"></span>SourceForge Unveils Winners of 'Open-Source Oscars'<br><br>File archiver 7-Zip wins award as all-over best project; Firebird
<br>relational database is voted best project for the enterprise<br><br>By China Martens, IDG News Service July 27, 2007<br><<a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/27/SourceForge-unveils-open-source-">http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/27/SourceForge-unveils-open-source-
</a><br>winners_1.html?source=NLC-TB&cgd=2007-07-27><br><br>Popular open-source software development site SourceForge.net hosted the<br>equivalent of the open-source Oscars on Thursday evening, billing the<br>event as a big party, not a painfully long and formal awards ceremony.
<br><br>File archiver 7-Zip won the top award as all-over best project, and also<br>picked up the prize for best technical design.<br><br>The Firebird relational database was another double winner, being voted<br>both best project for the enterprise, and the project providing the best
<br>user support.<br><br>It was the second time SourceForge.net has asked its community to vote for<br>their favorite open-source projects after debuting its Community Choice<br>Awards last year.<br><br>The awards are one way
SourceForge.net has discovered to highlight strong<br>and popular performers among the more than 150,000 open-source projects<br>the site hosts, according to Ross Turk, SourceForge.net's community<br>manager. "Last year, there was a really good response," he said. "I think
<br>people really value being a winner."<br><br>SourceForge.net has around 1.6 million registered users, around 80 percent<br>of whom are based outside of the U.S.<br><br>The community first nominated 10 finalists for each of the 11 awards and
<br>then voted for the winner in each category.<br><br>One surprise for the organizers was eMule, a peer-to-peer file sharing<br>client, winning as best new project, since the project was first published<br>on SourceForge.net
in 2002.<br><br>Because of that, Turk said, they decided to have two winners of the best<br>new project award, also recognizing runner-up Launchy, an application<br>launcher for Windows and a more recent project on SourceForge.net
.<br><br>The other SourceForge.net 2007 Community Choice Award winners were:<br><br>* Audacity as best project for multimedia<br><br>* Azureus as most collaborative project<br><br>* phpBB as best project for communications
<br><br>* phpMyAdmin as best tool or utility for system administrators;<br><br>* ScummVM as best project for gamers;<br><br>* TortoiseSVN for best tool or utility for developers.<br><br>--<br>Forwarded on from a post by Stephen Loosley
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br><a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br><br>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead