August Penguin


August Penguin is an annual gathering of the Israeli Free Software community, organized by Hamakor. The conference is held on the first Friday in August, usually in the Tel Aviv area. It lasts one day and includes technical talks, projects' status updates, social meetings and followed by a keysigning party.
During the conference, the winner of Hamakor Prize for free software-related achievements is announced.
YearWinnerActivity
2004Maxim Iorsh project providing high-quality Hebrew fonts
2005Yael Vaya TalmorCreating Free-software-based computer rooms in schools
2006no prize awarded
2007no prize awarded
2008Meir KriheliCreating and running
2009
  • Organizing some Perl conferences and meetings in Israel
  • Contribution to the Israeli community
  • Localization of Firefox
  • Adopting Open source for the city's education system.
    • 2010
  • Yehuda Bar-Nir
  • Blogli's website team
  • The Department of Software Engineering, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design
  • Writing 40 Greasemonkey scripts for making sure web sites operate well in Firefox
  • Building a free blogging website based on WordPress MU and encouraging the use of free software for a blogging platform.
  • Hebrew translation and support for Moodle
    • 2011Nadav Har'ElParticipating in the development of Hspell, the free software Hebrew spell checker