The 2005 The Golden Penguin Greater China Open Source Software Competition, organized by Sun Wah Hi-Tech Education Fund, Co-Create Software League, Taipei Computer Association and co-organized by CPTTM (Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Center), has completed successfully on 14 October in Hong Kong. Under the guidance of CPTTM, a project from Macau, the "Web-based SVG GIS system" from the University of Macau, has won an "OSS Innovative Development Award". The full list of award recipients can be found here.
Macao Daily News has the following
report on this event.
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| Mr. Tong Chi Kin giving a speech | Honorable guests and participants |
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| Kent Tong of CPTTM (second from the right) evaluating a competition entry along with other judges | Technical report by the
representative of University of Macau |
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| The representative of University of Macau being presented with the OSS Innovative Development Award |
The Golden Penguin Greater China OSS Competition will take place from Oct 13 to 14. This competition is organized by Sun Wah Hi-Tech Education Fund, Co-Create Software League, Taipei Computer Association. The advisor of this event is the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China. The organizer is Sun Wah Linux. Supporting organizations include HK Productivty Center, HK Computer Society, Internet Professional Association, Open Standard Support Organization, HK Linux Industry Association, HK LInux User Group, Debian HK, Open Source Application Knowledge Association. The competition is now open for OSS developers in Mainland China, Chinese Taipei, HK and Macau to join. The award categories are: OSS Product Application Award, OSS Innovative Development Award and OSS Contribution Award, which respectively encourage business applications of OSS, innovative development based on OSS and distinguished people promoting OSS. For more details, please see http://www.golden-penguin.org.
The now-expired application procedure can be found here.