So who won the Kayak award?
I have been on holiday most of this week so have not really been keeping as close an eye as I could be on happenings in and around the world of technology.
One thing I am curious about is who won the Kayak award, and I can’t find an answer as of yet.
To explain, the owners of the web site nooxml.org worked very hard to rally a community to oppose the ratification of Open XML over the last seven months, and as part of their recruitment efforts they offered a cash prize of 2,500 euros to the team that could cause the most disruption to the process in their given country, the winner gets the cash along with the opportunity to present the details of their hard work at the FFII conference in November.
As yet I’ve not seen who the winner is, I guess we will know very soon now as it is almost conference time.
If you know who the lucky winner is of this 2,500 Euro cash prize please let me know, the suspense is killing me!
I’m also a little curious about where the money for the prize came from, but I guess that has nothing to do with me really, so I will probably never know.
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I think its a toss up between Doug Mahugh and Microsoft Sweden.
yk.
You could be in the running yourself yk, but I guess we won’t know until we see an official announcement from FFII?
BTW, welcome!
“Microsoft Awarded ‘Best Campaigner Against OOXML’”
http://slashdot.org/articles/07/10/01/235237.shtml
http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/FFII_awards_Microsoft_%22Best_Campaigner_against_OOXML_Standardization%22_prize
– any candidates to pick up the cheque?
yk.
heh, I saw this last night and thought it was pretty interesting.
FFII publically made money available in an effort to recruit people to subvert an ISO standardization process. My reading of this is that realized that it was a dumb move and they needed a clever looking way to back out of the offer.
At the same time there are probably only a small number of people who could have accepted it without undermining their own positions even if FFII had wanted to hand out the award as they originally planned.
As an added bonus FFII gave both sides of the debate something to giggle about with last nights press release.
That said, I suspect they will lose a few friends along the way. I know some people worked hard to try and win this prize along with the notoriety that it would bring.
The Kayak Award has been one of the more humorous moves of the last twelve months.
I’ll look forward to seeing the receipt from the Peruvian Earthquake Fund posted up on the net somewhere, some good will come from their nefarious plan after all!