[Penguicon-ConCom] Awards

[Matt Arnold]

When Molly discussed this with me, I suggested that in order to play
to Penguicon's strengths, the two awards should celebrate the
crossover between real-life software and the social visions we see in
creative works about the future.

One award would be for a creative work about the future that
encourages and inspires technological freedoms and participatory
models of development and business.

The other award would be for a piece of software that best embodies
philanthropic hacktivism. Hacktivism is not just "by hackers for other
hackers", but seeks large-scale adoption by non-technical end users to
improve the global computing environment through freedoms and
participation.

Molly, thanks for this extremely interesting idea! One of the things
we'll need is a good name for it.

-Matt


On 6/26/07, Molly de Blanc <majorarcanna at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think Penguicon should adopt a tradition that other conventions have:
> awards.
>
>  I mean a fairly serious award, two to be percise. One which would be for a
> piece of softwear or engineering that is open source and user friendly
> (promoting the ideals of open source among the populace through
> accessibility and ease or some nonsense) and one for a creative piece
> (fiction, film, comic, etc) that involves philosophies or acualizations of
> open source within the contents.
>
>  Ideally a committee of people would pick nominations for both categories
> and then we could do voting on the website by the population pre-con so at
> the opening or closing ceremonies, or at the masquarade awards section (we
> could also throw in Lan winners there too, actually, and turn it into an
> awards presentation) they can be given out without counting ballots,
> especially by hand.
>
>  The awards would be open to nominees from the past year, so we could say
> like Janurary 2007-Janurary 2008.
>
>  Ideas? Criticims? Discuss. Please.
>
> --
> Faithfully yours,
>
> molly.
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