Jeff's Professional Side

Last week, SourceForge opened nominations for the 2009 Community Choice Awards. These annual awards provide a chance for the larger open source community to recognize the projects that they get the most out of. The OpenNMS project has made a strong showing in past years in the “Best Project for the Enterprise” category: a crowded field to be sure, but we think the most appropriate for a product that spans so many of the other categories.

If you use and love OpenNMS, you can help by nominating the project yourself — just click either of the logos below, then select “Best Project for the Enterprise” from the drop-down list. Thanks in advance!

If you’d like to pass along the word, here’s some HTML that you can paste into your own blog or other web page:


<a href="http://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/nominate/?project_name=OpenNMS&project_url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/opennms/">
<img src="http://sourceforge.net/images/cca/cca_nominate.png" border="0"/></a>


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One of the lists that I read, and occasionally post to, is asterisk-dev. I usually don’t have time to follow the discussion closely, but this morning Russell posted (and blogged) about the possibility of the Asterisk project getting involved with Google’s Summer of Code this year. Russell solicited input from the list on projects that people would be interested to see worked on and, more importantly, willing to mentor. The OpenNMS project (which my employer sponsors and helps maintain) was a mentoring organization in the 2008 GSoC, so I sat up and paid attention.
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