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Dear Linux Enthusiast,

The Linux New Media Award will again be presented in 2003 to products, projects, and companies that have made a particularly important contribution to free software and open source this year.

This is the fourth year for the Linux New Media Award, the second as an Editors’ Choice. The international jury is made up of editors, authors, developers and businesspeople active in the Linux Community, and we invite you to participate in this year’s Award voting.

Linux New Media publishes the English-language Linux Magazine, the German-language Linux-Magazin, LinuxUser, and EasyLinux magazines as well as the online portal www.linux-community.de.

We will publish the results of the Award voting and present the jury in the December 2003 issues of our publications. Therefore, we’d like to request that you send us a current photo and short bio to be used for this purpose.

The voting process is simple and is handled in two stages. First, we collect nominations for the pre-defined categories from the jury. Secondly, the final voting takes place a few days later.

Our editorial teams have already made some nominations for each of the categories. Only products, projects, and companies that stand out through particular importance, innovation and/or significance should be nominated.

Please send us your further nominations by email to award@linuxnewmedia.com by September 14th, 2003.

Thank you for your cooperation!

Best Regards,

John Southern Hans-Georg Eßer Jan Kleinert - Linux Magazine - LinuxUser - - Linux-Magazin - International - - EasyLinux -

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Linux New Media Award 2003 Categories - please ad your nominees

HARDWARE

* Best Notebook * Apple, IBM, Dell,...

* Best Free Project for Hardware Support * Sane, Cups, Acpi Kernel 2.6,...

SOFTWARE

* Distributions * Red Hat, SuSE, Debian,...

* IDE Development System * K-Develop, Eclipse, Kylix,...

* Multimedia * VDR, DeCSS, Xine,...

* Most Beginner-friendly Desktop Application * OpenOffice, K-Mail, K3B, Nautilus,...

* Most Interesting Programming Language * Ruby, Python, C# / Mono,...

* Collaboration Software * Evolution, Kolab, OpenGroupware,...

SPECIAL AWARDS

* Newcomer of the Year * Typo3, Firebird, SGI Altix,...

* Institution / Organization / Company that has especially helped Linux * EuroLinux, Open Source Now Fund (Red Hat), City of Munich, OSDL,...