SalesAgility revives The UK Open Source Awards for 2014

Why

Open Source is the general direction of travel for software both in the infrastructure and the application stack. Unlike it's neighbour in the proprietary software world, Open Source does not have mountains of cash to splash on expensive marketing or corporate entertainment.

The UK Open Source Awards is designed with a single primary purpose in mind: To give the air of publicity to Open Source and the many innovations that are delivered by UK based open source companies.

It is advertising for the movement and the companies that exist and innovate within Open Source.

It is also a prime open source networking opportunity - an event with 200 business and technology open source movers and shakers.

What

There will be three awards:

Company – for the company that demonstrates the value of open source through commitment to a project or projects. Particularly aimed at disruptive, high profile or innovation-led companies. The winners will receive a prestigious trophy.

Project – for the single project that demonstrates the value of open source. This can be innovative use of multiple project components to solve a particular business problem or a free-standing project that can demonstrate innovation and value. Particularly aimed at disruptive, high profile or innovation projects. The winners will receive a prestigious trophy.

Student – for the student that can demonstrate the most innovative application of open source technologies to address real world business issues. The winning student will receive a £500 cash award.

Where

Edinburgh University Informatics Forum - 10 Crichton St, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Edinburgh University is one of the top computing faculties globally. The award-winning Informatics Forum is a centre for innovation and interaction in the centre of the University. It sits alongside new teaching, conference and technology transfer facilities.

There will be an Awards Evening with a networking opportunities, a keynote speaker (TBA) and the awards ceremony.

Finger buffet, wine, beer and light drinks will be provided free of charge. Entrance to the awards is also free of charge.

When

Wednesday February 26th, 2014. Evening event.

How

To nominate a company, project or student for an award, please visit the OSA website at www.opensourceawards.org

To apply for tickets for the awards event, please visit the awards website at www.opensourceawards.org

The website will be available from Monday 9th Dec for nominations and event registration.

Who 

About SalesAgility

SalesAgility engage globally with governments, enterprises and SMBs to deliver SugarCRM Community Edition projects that reflect the business needs of our clients. We're known for our deep and expert knowledge of CRM, for our ability to transform business process requirements into elegant, robust and usable SugarCRM functionality and for our commitment to open source software.

In 2009 and in 2010, SalesAgility organised the Open Source Awards but the event has fallen by the wayside in the last 3 years - we did not have time to organise it and no other organisation stepped up to the plate.

Now, in 2013, we have scale and bandwidth as well as commitment and we're back to the fray.

We're passionate believers in open source. We're an open source business and a successful one.

We know that these awards are good for open source and that the event is a great networking opportunity.

Technologists, students, industry obeservers, media