SFD 2006 Competition Winners

Teams

Software Freedom International is proud to announce the winners of the 2006 Software Freedom Day competition - well done to all the contestants!

The winners of the team categories receive a high performance IBM server, thanks to the generous sponsorship of SFD '06 by IBM. IBM continues to play a role both in cutting edge open source products and services, as well as supporting efforts such as Software Freedom Day, and it was a pleasure to have their support this year.

• Best SFD event publicity: Digital Free Software Association (Tunisia)
• Best SFD documentary: Melbourne Australia won this for their excellent video contribution.
• Best plan for FOSS deployment project on new server for community benefit: Both full plans are outlined in the contestant details. UnPLUG (Philippines) and Cultura Libre (Peru)
• Best SFD event: LinuxChix (Zimbabwe)

Photos and other documents submitted for this competition are licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA licenseCC-BY-SA license.

Individuals

The winners of the individual categories each receive an SFD '06 T-shirt signed by leading open source personalities including Alan Cox, Aaron Seigo, Jeff Waugh, Lawrence Lessig, Mark Shuttleworth, Andrew Tridgell, Rusty Russell, and Jon maddog Hall.

Best event photo

Vibek Raj Maury (Nepal)

Bruce 'zcat' Kingsbury (Waikato, New Zealand)

Best localised version of the official SFD logo

Judy Wilson (Belize)

Highest ranking Government official at SFD event

Nchimunya Kabunda (Zambia), who invited the Clerk of the National Assembly of Zambia

Thank you to all those who participated in Software Freedom Day and submitted entries to the competition - the judges had a tough time selecting the winning entries! There were also a lot of awesome photographs posted to the website that weren't entered into the competition. Thank you for everybody's participation!