"Who's The Next Open Source Idol?" to Take Place at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo...

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"Who's The Next Open Source Idol?" to Take Place at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco

   In-Person and Online Votes Taken Over Three Days Will Determine
Winner
SAN FRANCISCO--(Business Wire)--


   Core News Facts

   --  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.

   Multimedia Elements

   "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

   Links to Related Content

   --  Online voting page for "Who's The Next Open Source Idol?"
        (http://www.groundworkopensource.com/community/lwce08.html)

   --  YouTube Channel where "Who's The Next Open Source Idol?" will
        be posted (GroundWork TV)
        (http://www.youtube.com/user/groundworktv)

   --  Profile for Tux, the Linux mascot (Wikipedia)
        (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_the_penguin)

   --  Profile for Beastie, the BSD Daemon (Wikipedia)
        (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beastie_%28mascot%29)

   --  More information on The GNU (Wikipedia)
        (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU)

   --  More information on Mozilla's Firefox (Wikipedia)
        (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox)

   --  Link to GroundWork blog
        (http://www.groundworkopensource.com/blog/)

   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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