# New Zealand Open Source Awards

The New Zealand Open Source Awards celebrate open source developments in New Zealand at a biannual awards ceremony, held since 2007. The awards are run by the New Zealand Open Source Society.

## Past winners of New Zealand Open Source Awards

| | 2007 | 2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 | 2018 | 2021 |
| Open source use in government | State Services Commission (ICT Branch) | Radio New Zealand | IRD's use of Moodle | GeoNet Rapid (by GNS Science) | Common Web Platform | DigialNZ and National Library of New Zealand for DigitalNZ | The Service Innovation Lab for the Rates Rebates Alpha and Family Services Directory API | Ministry of Health for the NZ COVID Tracer application |
| Open source use in business | Zoomin / ProjectX | Egressive / Dave Lane | Ponoko | Totara Learning Management System | DiamondMind – DiamondAge and Mindkits | Catalyst for The Catalyst Cloud | Sparks Interactive for the Drupal Sector distribution and sector.org.nz | Te Hiku Media and Whare Kōrero |
| Open source use in education [in later years also included Social Services and Youth] | New Zealand Summer of Code | Mahara | Albany Senior High School | Manaiakalani | Catalyst Open Source Academy | City Housing, Wellington City Council for Wellington City Housing Computer Hubs | AUT Library For Tuwhera | NZSL Share by Deaf studies Research Unit, Victoria University of Wellington and Ackama partnering with JR McKenzie Trust's Deaf Development Fund and MSD Office for Disability Issues |
| Open source software project | New Zealand Open GPS | SilverStripe | SilverStripe | Piwik | fyi.org.nz | Paul Cambell for The OneRNG project | The Faucet Foundation - SDN Controller project | Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand Basemap Service |
| Open source contributor | Chris Cormack for Koha | Robert O'Callahan | Tabitha Roder for One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) | Grant McLean for work on Perl and wider community | Andrew Bartlett for Samba4 leadership | Eileen McNaughton’s contribution to CiviCRM | Victoria Spagnolo - for contributions to the Drupal Project and Drupal Migrate | Evonne Cheung's contributions to the Mahara project: Graphically designing an open source project |
| Open source advocate | | | Linux.conf.au organisers Andrew & Susanne Ruthven | | | | | |
| Open source in social services [in later years was merged into broadened Education category] | Vet Learn | FLOSS Manuals | | Soup Hub and WCC Housing Computer Hubs | UC CEISMIC programme | | | |
| Open science award – creating the Commons | | | | GNS Science for Data Policy and Services | Auckland Bioengineering Institute | The Cacophony Project for bring back the bird song to New Zealand | Kea Sightings Project for the Kea Database | Centre for Computational Evolution for BEAST 2 |
| Open art award | Select Parks | | Bronwyn Holloway-Smith for "Ghosts in the Form of Gifts" (Te Papa) | Bronwyn Holloway-Smith for "Whisper Down The Lane" | Birgit Bachler for "Copy Wildly" | Make/Use Team, Massey University for Make/Use: User Modifiable Zero Waste Fashion | Wellington Independent Arts Trust for Urban Dream Brokerage | Vicki Smith and Breathe an artist contribution to urban waterway engagement |
| Open source people's choice award | | | Amie McCarron for the Alcoholics Anonymous NZ websites | Sofa Statistics | Rob Elshire | Brent Wood for services to Geospatial Open Source in New Zealand and Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Priv-O-Matic | Whare Hauora sensors project Whare Hauora Sensors | Nicholson Consulting in partnership with Te Rourou, Vodafone Foundation Aotearoa, Centre for Social Impact and Deloitte for Thriving Rangatahi Population Explorer |
| Promoting open culture | | | | Warrington School for the Ubuntu Room radio station | | | | |
| Clinton Bedogni prize for open systems | | | Robert O'Callahan | | Koray Atalag (University of Auckland) | Peter Gutmann | Dr. Richard Lobb | |
| Open Source special awards | | | | | | | Brenda Wallace and Lillian Hetet-Owen | |