Commercial Winner:
Illumination
Software
Creation
Station
Created by Bryan Lunduke of Radical Breeze, this appliance is a complete, openSUSE® based, Linux distribution that allows anyone to immediately jump in to the wonderful world of creating desktop and web software. The best part? No software programming skills or knowledge is necessary. All software is created visually, in an easy to understand way for people of any skill level–from elementary school students through seasoned software programmers. View demo +
- Bryan Lunduke has been developing cross platform software since the 1990's. When he's not busy leading teams of developers, he co-hosts the Linux Action Show and speaks on Linux topics far and wide. Bryan resides in the great Pacific Northwest, just north of Seattle.
Community Winner:
Created by Tommy Anderberg from Sweden, this virtual reality appliance allows users to easily set up an extension to the OpenSim platform to create a multi-user 3D world similar to Second Life. By using Hypergrid 1.5, this appliance helps users to jump between their own servers and others around the world. Ready-to-use, this appliance creates a fully customizable world and includes a complete asset library (objects, avatar shapes, skins, hair and clothing.) View demo +
Honorable Mention
Created by ROC Software and submitted by Paul Scripko, this appliance streamlines printer administration in a package that is easy to install, easy to implement and easy to use. This translates directly to better use of IT resources–people, paper and processes.
Created by Opera Software’s Jacob Rask, this appliance is designed for web developers and QA professionals to perform cross browser testing and it includes 22 versions of 13 different browsers!
Spirit Award
Created by Gourav Shah of Efficient Frontier in India, this appliance is a tailor-made VoIP distribution-in-a-box.
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Judges Panel–Providing unique and valued industry perspectives, the judging panel consists of:
- Jason Brooks, Labs Editor in Chief at eWeek
- Sean Michael Kerner, Senior Editor, InternetNews.com
- Jos Poortvliet, openSUSE Community Manager
- Markus Rex, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Open Platform Solutions at Novell
- Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation
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