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
Lodel in the category "Public Organizations and Communities" Prométhée 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
OpenElec, 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 Prométhée, "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 SpagoBI, integrated platform of decisional data processing Pentaho, platform of decisional and management of flows in company Multimedia Ekiga (GnomeMeeting), software of telephony on Internet Gcstar, 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 phpMyVisites, measure of audience and statistics for the Web sites phpMyAdmin, Web manager for the database MySQL, translated into 50 languages
4th edition – 2007
Special prize of the jury: Bioclipse.
5th edition – 2009
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.