From:	 Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@intevation.de>
To:	 lwn@lwn.net
Subject: PR: Free Software Award =?iso-8859-1?Q?at_?=
	 =?iso-8859-1?Q?University_of_Osnabr=FCck=2C?= Germany
Date:	 Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:13:39 +0100

 Free Software Award at University of Osnabrück, Germany

  The "Intevation-Award for Free Software" was given out the first time 
  at the award ceremony held 
  in the historical building of Osnabrück's university.
  Elmar Ludwig and Andreas Beyer were publically acknowledged
  for their achievement at the university for Free Software 
  and received a total of 750 Euro.
 
Osnabrück, Germany 25th of Januar 2002

 This friday the Intevation-Award for outstanding efforts
 in Free Software development or other research about the topic
 in the university setting was given out for the first time.
 The ceremony took place in the historical building of the
 University of Osnabrück. The award went to Elmar Ludwig and
 Andreas Beyer for their work on GToolKit and StatistX.

 "We hope to set a good example with this.", explains Jan-Oliver Wagner,
 Managing Director of Intevation GmbH, the company which contributed 
 the award. "There are countless activities within universities in 
 Germany regarding Free Software. The work done and the often exceptional
 engagement has to be honored appropriately."

 The Intevation-Award for Free Software is one of 25 awards 
 given out each year at the University of Osnabrück 
 for excellent student work. The monetary part of the award is 750 Euro.
 
 (Information about the Awards at the University of Osnabrück in German:)
	 www.uos.de/career_service/foerderpreise/update/stifter_liste.cfm


  Elmar Ludwig is autor of serveral Free Software applications,
  which he has maintained for years. GToolKit is an Objective-C binding for
  the well-known Gimp Tool Kit (GTK+).

	www.informatik.uos.de/elmar/projects/gtoolkit/

  Andreas Beyer developed "StatistX" while working on his doctoral
  degree in Environmental Systems Research. StatistX is a graphical user
  interface to a command line statistics programm and uses GToolKit.

	www.usf.uos.de/~abeyer/private/StatistX/index.html

  Intevation GmbH, located in Osnabrück, Germany is a high level
  Free Software consulting company. It empowers its clients 
  to utilise the advantages of free software culture and usable IT-solutions
  offering management and strategic consulting throughout Europe.
  Additional business units are Geographic Information Systems
  and usability design.

	www.intevation.net