Koha developer wins at NZOSA

18 October 2007

Chris Cormack won the Open Source Contributor award at the inaugural New Zealand Open Source Awards held in Wellington last night.

The successful event was organised, CatalystIT, a Wellington based open source company. Nominations were sought via the NZOSA website, with many being recieved from outside New Zealand. Over 130 nominations were received and had to be whittled down to finalists and then winners by the international judging panel.

Chris Cormack was nominated in the Open Source Contributor category , which sought to recognise "outstanding contributions by a New Zealand individual or organisation to one or more open source projects". Chris is well known to all the Koha developers and has poured thousands of hours, sponsored and on his dime, into the project.

The Koha project was a finalist in the Projects Category. Koha mentioned several times by different speakers during the night as an example of open source success in New Zealand, including the Minister of Information Technology Hon David Cunliffe.

Members of the original Koha development team were on hand to congratulate Chris, including the original sponsor library, the Horowhenua Library Trust.

From Left to Right: Rosalie Blake, Head of Libraries Horowhenua Library Trust, Rachel Hamilton-Williams, Katipo Communications and Koha Project Kaitiaki, Chris Cormack, LibLime and Koha QA Manager, Joann Ransom, Deputy Head of Libraries Horowhenua Library Trust. Photo Russel Garlick

For more information about the award finalists and winners see www.nzosa.org.nz

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Russel Garlick
Koha Website Editor
rwg - at - liblime.com