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Subject: DOCBOOK: FW: [ jEdit-users ] jEdit wins Finalist Awards in XML-J 2002Read er's Choice Awards!
For your information. Petr -----Original Message----- From: Robert McKinnon [mailto:r.m.mckinnon@verizon.net] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 8:54 AM To: jedit-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [ jEdit-users ] jEdit wins Finalist Awards in XML-J 2002 Reader's Choice Awards! Hi jEdit community, Congratulations to the jEdit team! jEdit with its XML and XSLT plugins was 2nd runner-up in two categories of the XML-Journal 2002 Reader's Choice Awards! Best XML Editor - Readers' Choice Award 2nd Runner-Up: jEdit (Open Source) Plug-in developers: Slava Pestov, André Kaplan Best XSLT Editor - Readers' Choice Award 2nd Runner-Up: jEdit (Open Source) Plug-in developers: Greg Merrill, Robert McKinnon, Carlos Quiroz I circumvented the awards' implicit vendor advertising objectives by nominating jEdit and several other open source efforts late in the nominations period (more on this below). I received the finalist awards certificates for jEdit in the mail last week, here are digital copies for your viewing pleasure (I think the "To: Open Source" is very amusing): http://www.geocities.com/xemplify/jedit-xml-j-2002-awards/ Slava, if you would like me to snail mail to you the XML Editor certificate, just send me your address. I also received some information about how we are allowed to 'market' the award, do we have a 'marketing' person that I should forward that on to? If anyone has suggestions for improvements to the XSLT plug-in mail them to the list. I would be interested to hear any feedback from people who are using it. The XSLT plug-in is only at v0.2 and I am sure there are lots of cool features that could be added if there is a user demand. The complete list of award winners is on the XML-Journal site: http://www.sys-con.com/xml/winners.cfm Unfortunately I feel that for *some* categories there is lower correlation between award winners and the overall importance of their technologies/products/sites. The lack of category definitions meant some category titles were ambiguous. Only vendors were invited to nominate their products, I was cheeky and got in some nominations for the open source side. My other nominations were: * MVV-Most Valuable Vendor Apache XML Project * Best XML Parsers and Processors Xerces and Xalan - Apache XML Project * Best Educational Web Site http://www.xml.com - O'Reilly http://www.zvon.org - Zvon * Most Overlooked XML-Related Tool or Technology Representational State Transfer (REST) Architecture - Roy Fielding et al XLink Specification - W3C Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) - W3C Batik (an SVG toolkit) - Apache XML Project * Most Innovative Application of XML Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) - W3C Batik (an SVG toolkit) - Apache XML Project Cocoon - Apache XML Project * Best XML Transformation Tool jEdit - Open Source My nomination list was what seemed important to me at the time. If I had thought of it I would have also nominated XML Topic Maps for the Most Overlooked XML-Related Tool or Technology. All that was required to submit a vote was a valid email address. I noticed one company offered a 'bribe' to induce their customers to vote (a free subscription to XML-Journal to those that voted for them). A large company could just ask all their staff/customers to vote to jump up the rankings. Smaller vendors interested in boosting their placings could have got their marketing departments to spend a morning registering emails and submitting votes. It is a shame that the Apache XML Project didn't pick up any awards, I don't know where Java users of XML would be without them. OK, enough ranting from me, though I can definitely see the irony in the "Company Buys Award, Updates Web Site" story at Webservile.com: http://www.webservile.com/stories/award.htm :) Regards, Robert ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf -- ----------------------------------------------- jEdit Users' List jEdit-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jedit-users --- Odchozí zpráva neobsahuje viry. Zkontrolováno antivirovým systémem AVG (http://www.grisoft.cz). Verze: 6.0.404 / Virová báze: 228 - datum vydání: 15.10. 2002
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