August Penguin is an annual gathering (since 2002) of the

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community, organized by

Hamakor Hamakor ( he, המקור), officially known as Hamakor – Israeli Society for Free and Open Source Software ( he, המקור – עמותה ישראלית לתוכנה חופשית ולקוד־מקור פתוח), is an Israeli non-profit orga ...

. The conference is held on the first Friday in August (hence its name), usually in the

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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. {, class="wikitable" , - style="background-color: #EFEFEF;" ! Year !! Winner !! Activity , - , 2004 , , Maxim Iorsh ,
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, , * Organizing some

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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,

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, , * Writing 40 Greasemonkey scrip

for making sure web sites operate well in Firefox * Building a free (as in gratis) blogging website based on WordPress MU and encouraging the use of free software for a blogging platform. * Hebrew translation and support for

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, - , 2011 , , Nadav Har'El , , Participating in the development of Hspell, the free software Hebrew spell checker

External links

August Penguin’s Homepage
(mostly in Hebrew with an English page)
Hamakor homepage
(in Hebrew) Free-software events Free-software awards he:המקור (עמותה)#כנס "אוגוסט פינגווין"

See also

External links