The ''Les Trophées du Libre'' contest was a

free software Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions. Free software is a matter of liberty, no ...

contest whose goal was to promote innovative software projects by giving those projects recognition and media coverage as well as rewarding participating students and academic institutions with special prizes.

Details

The competition was international and it was intended both to free development professionals and amateurs. Participating projects could apply for seven categories: Security, Games, Multimedia, Business Management, Education, Science applications and administration and communities. The first edition (2003) had 113 applying projects from 18 different countries. The president for the 2009 edition was Pierre Spilleboudt. The jury was composed of about 30 experts. The ''Trophées du Libres fifth award ceremony took place in June 2009.

Results

1st edition – 2003

Gcompris GCompris is a software suite comprising educational entertainment software for children aged 2 to 10. GCompris was originally written in C and Python using the GTK+ widget toolkit, but a rewrite in C++ and QML using the Qt widget toolkit has ...

in the category of "Educational" * Koha in the category "Public Organizations" * GOK in the category of "Accessibility" *

Dolibarr Dolibarr ERP CRM is an open source, free software package for companies of any size, foundations or freelancers. It includes different features for enterprise resource planning ( ERP) and customer relationship management ( CRM) but also other fe ...

in the category "Management Company" * Weasel Reader in the category of "Public" *

Vega Strike ''Vega Strike'' is a first person (video games), first-person space trading and combat simulator, developed for Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and OS X systems. Many of the core game mechanics of ''Vega Strike'' are indirectly inspired by '' ...

in the category "Games"

2nd edition – 2005

* Lodel in the category "Public Organizations and Communities" *

Prométhée ''Prométhée'', Op. 82, (''Prometheus'') is a ''tragédie lyrique'' (grand cantata) in three acts by the French composer Gabriel Fauré with a French libretto by the Symboliste poets Jean Lorrain and (1865–1940). It was partly based on the o ...

in the category of "Education" *

MedinTux MedinTux is a free healthcare software for managing consultations, written for the French environment. Features Originally written for the French emergency services, its modular conception allow it to be used in almost any area of medical or pa ...

in the category "Business Management" *

VideoLAN VideoLAN is a non-profit organization which develops software for playing video and other media formats. It originally developed two programs for media streaming, VideoLAN Client (VLC) and VideoLAN Server (VLS), but most of the features of VL ...

in the category of "Multimedia" *

NuFW NuFW is a software package that extends Netfilter, the Linux kernel-internal packet filtering firewall module. NuFW adds authentication to filtering rules. NuFW is also provided as a hardware firewall, in the EdenWall firewalling appliance. NuFW ha ...

in the category "Security" *

MediaWiki MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software. It is used on Wikipedia and almost all other Wikimedia websites, including Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata; these sites define a large part of the requirement set for MediaWiki ...

as "Special Prize PHP"

3rd edition – 2006

* Public Organizations and Communities # OpenElec, complete management tools of the electoral rolls # demexp, system waiter of vote on computer #

OpenJUMP Java Unified Mapping Program (JUMP) is a Java based vector and raster GIS and programming framework. Current development continues under the 'OpenJUMP'' name. Features As featured on the project's website: * Platform independent (Windows, Lin ...

, geographical information system * Education # Stellarium, a planetarium computerized for the exploration of stars, constellations, and other heavenly bodies # ICONITO, gate dedicated to the educational/school actors integrating tools and resources
Prométhée
"ready to use" open source Virtual Learning Environment for schools 100% free * Business Management: # Open Mobile IS, framework for the development of mobile applications of companies # SpagoBI, integrated platform of decisional data processing #

Pentaho Pentaho is business intelligence (BI) software that provides data integration, OLAP services, reporting, information dashboards, data mining and extract, transform, load (ETL) capabilities. Its headquarters are in Orlando, Florida. Pentaho was ...

, platform of decisional and management of flows in company * Multimedia # Ekiga GnomeMeeting, software of telephony on Internet # Gcstar, personal manager of collections multimedia # Azureus, P2P-client for the distribution of big binary files * Security # OCS Inventory Next Generation, tool for monitoring the configuration of the software on networks # GLPI, management tool of helpdesk under licence GPL #

M0n0wall m0n0wall was an embedded firewall distribution of FreeBSD, one of the BSD operating system descendants. It provides a small image which can be put on Compact Flash cards as well as on CD-ROMs and hard disks. It runs on a number of embedded plat ...

, firewall multipurpose * PHP # alternc, software of management of mutualized lodging # phpMyVisites, measure of audience and statistics for the Web sites #

phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin is a free and open source administration tool for MySQL and MariaDB. As a portable web application written primarily in PHP, it has become one of the most popular MySQL administration tools, especially for web hosting services. His ...

, Web manager for the database MySQL, translated into 50 languages

4th edition – 2007

Special prize of the jury:

Bioclipse The Bioclipse project is a Java-based, open-source, visual platform for chemo- and bioinformatics based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP). It gained scripting functionality in 2009, and a command line version in 2021. Like any RCP applic ...

5th edition – 2009

Special awards: * Open source spirit award: ''Ksplice'' * Special jury award: ''Coherence'' * Innovative project award: ''GRAPHITE'' The 5th edition (2009) was the last one of this contest and online web portal of contest is not available anymore.

References

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