The Les Trophées du Libre contest was a free software contest whose goal was to promote innovative software projects by giving those projects recognition and media coverage and rewarding participating students and academic institutions with special prizes.
Details The international competition was intended both to free development professionals and amateurs. Participating projects could apply to seven categories: Security, Games, Multimedia, Business Management, Education, Science applications and administration and communities.
The first edition (2003) had 113 applying projects from 18 different countries.
The president for the 2009 edition was Pierre Spilleboudt. The jury was composed of about 30 experts. The Trophées du Libre'''s fifth award ceremony took place in June 2009.
Results
1st edition – 2003 Gcompris in the category of "Educational" Koha in the category "Public Organizations" GOK in the category of "Accessibility" Dolibarr in the category "Management Company" Weasel Reader in the category of "Public" Vega Strike in the category "Games"
2nd edition – 2005 in the category "Public Organizations and Communities" in the category of "Education" MedinTux in the category "Business Management" VideoLAN in the category of "Multimedia" NuFW in the category "Security" MediaWiki as "Special Prize PHP"
3rd edition – 2006
Public Organizations and Communities , complete management tools of the electoral rolls demexp, system waiter of vote on computer OpenJUMP, geographical information system
Education Stellarium, a planetarium computerized for the exploration of stars, constellations, and other heavenly bodies ICONITO, gate dedicated to the educational/school actors integrating tools and resources , "ready to use" open source Virtual Learning Environment for schools 100% free Business Management: Open Mobile IS, framework for the development of mobile applications of companies , integrated platform of decisional data processing Pentaho, platform of decisional and management of flows in company Multimedia Ekiga (GnomeMeeting), software of telephony on Internet , personal manager of collections multimedia Azureus, P2P-client for the distribution of big binary files Security OCS Inventory Next Generation, tool for monitoring the configuration of the software on networks GLPI, management tool of helpdesk under licence GPL M0n0wall, firewall multipurpose PHP AlternC, software of management of mutualized lodging , measure of audience and statistics for the Web sites phpMyAdmin, Web manager for the database MySQL, translated into 50 languages
4th edition – 2007 http://www.linux-magazin.de/content/view/full/17458 19 Projekte gewinnen Trophées du Libre 2007 (English: 19 projects win the 2007 Trophée du Libre) 04.12.2007 linux-magazin.de Linux New Media AG Security Business Management Administration and Communities Educational Software Multimedia / Games Scientific Software
Special prize of the jury: Bioclipse.
5th edition – 2009
Multimedia Professional Security Administration Sciences Hobbies Education
Special awards:
Open source spirit award: Ksplice Special jury award: Coherence Innovative project award: GRAPHITE''
The 5th edition (2009) was the last one of this contest and online web portal of contest is not available anymore.
See also
List of computer-related awards
References