We’ve been getting a few emails and calls over the past two weeks from website owners who want to have their work nominated but also want to sponsor the Awards. Since it’s one or the other we encourage people to go for being nominated.
You can still contribute to the Web Awards though by talking it up, downloading the logos and making badges for your website and blogs etc, getting as many people to nominate their favourite Irish sites and by coming along on the night and having fun. Having fun being the most important thing you can do.
I think it’s a poor reflection of the sorry state of the Irish Open Source community when they don’t even get a mention at an awards such as this one.
Why do Open Source people need to have an award for themselves?
Surely it would be “a poor reflection of the sorry state of the Irish Open Source community” if there were a need to section it off into it’s own special wee open source category?
Plenty of excellent open sourced software, communities, initiatives and other websites that are perfectly capable of competing with the ‘big boys’.
John I don’t think Open Source needs it’s own category and from a person who is actively involved in Open Source in Ireland I find it very ironic, that you want a specialised category set aside just for Open Source when everyone else competes amongst one another.
Next there will be complaints that there’s no Microsoft category…