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Nominations Open For OSCON's Open Source Awards

What do Pamela Jones, Chris Messina, Doc Searls, and Angela Byron all have in common? Aside from being very cool people, they’re also all past winners of a Google-O’Reilly Open Source Award.

The honor is bestowed on people in the FOSS community  who have “demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and collaboration in the development of open source software. The 2009 award winner will be announced at this year’s O’Reilly Open source Convention 2009 (OSCON) later this summer so if you know someone who you’d like to see win, there are still a few weeks left to nominate your favorite geek.

OSCON Program Chair Allison Randal writes, “The nomination process is open to the entire open source community, closing May 22, 2009. Send your nominations to osawards@oreilly.com. Nominations should include the name of the recipient, any associated project/org, suggested title for the award ("Best Hacker", "Best Community Builder", etc.), and a description of why you are nominating the individual. Google and O'Reilly employees cannot be nominated.”

Enthusiastic commenters on Randal’s blog post have already begun to kick around some names: PostgreSQL’s Tom Lane for Best Hacker, OSI’s Russ Nelson, and Dave Winer for “the invention of... the modern Web 2.0 world as we know it." Of course, only nominations received at osawards@oreilly.com will be considered, but we’d like to know who you think should take the prize. Make your nominations according to the rules, then come back here and let us know your suggestions in the comments.

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