CH Open Source Awards 2008
2008 award winners
Swissness
OLAT , E-learning platform
Business
Day , Ua standards-based content repository (JSR-170) for CMS; Apache JackRabbit, Sling
Pioneer
Cantonal school Zofingen , Use of FOSS (OpenOffice.org, Linux Terminal Server) in the school.
Advocacy
Schoolnet Namibia (Philipp Hanselmann) and Linuxola (Amadeus Wittwer) two projects to promote the use of IT resources in so-called developing countries on a FOSS basis.
Youth
Esteban Joël Marin , Kantonsschule Romanshorn, has developed Worddriller, a freely accessible vocabulary learning program.
And Philipp Gassmann , Kantonsschule Zofingen, Matura thesis “Introduction to Ubuntu” to learn about other schools resp. To make it easier for schoolchildren to get started with Ubuntu and to make it more palatable.