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- GroundWork Open Source is sponsoring a competition amongst four popular open source mascots: “Tux” the Linux kernel penguin, “Beastie” the BSD daemon, Mozilla’s Firefox, and “The Gnu” GNU.
- The purpose of the competition is to drum up excitement around famous, non-commercial open source icons and to determine which is the favorite in the minds of today’s most dedicated open source fans.
- GroundWork will be videotaping LinuxWorld Conference and Expo interviews with attendees on the show floor and asking them to audition on behalf of their chosen open source mascot.
- The competition will begin at 7:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, August 5.
- The competition will end at 11:59 PM PDT on Thursday, August 7.
- GroundWork is inviting all open source fans to vote at Booth #501 during the conference or online at: http://www.groundworkopensource.com/community/lwce08.html.
- The “winner” of the competition will be announced Tuesday, August 12 at 7:00 AM EDT.
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“Who’s The Next Open Source Idol?” trailer video with the four contestants in costume
Watch the video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntYQw09umnM
Watch the video on Google Video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2252476793785441149&hl=en
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About Groundwork
San Francisco-based GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (http://www.groundworkopensource.com) is the market leader in commercial open source network and systems management software, delivering enterprise-class network, system and application management solutions at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions.
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