The RISC OS Awards 2014
Open discussion
Monday 19th January 2015, 7:45pm
For the first meeting of the new year we will be looking back on last year, as we
take a look at the categories in the RISC OS Awards 2014.
Unlike previous polls that have been multiple choice this year's simply offers
a text box for each answer. Great for providing maximum choice, but making it
tricky to remember which things happened in the past year.
At the meeting we will be putting our collective heads together to come up with a
list of options for each category. The organiser of the poll, Vince M Hudd, has
posted a few reminders on the RISCOSitory website,
but bring along your suggestions to join in what should be an interesting discussion.
Here are the nominations we came up with:
Best Commercial Product
RiscOSM
Organizer
ArtWorks
EasiWriter
DPGenealogy
DeleGate
Messenger Pro
RiscPiC (Raspberry Pi case)
SystemDisc
VirtualRPC
ProCAD+
Best Non-Commercial Product
Pluto
RPCemu
NetSurf
NetRadio
WeatherUK/NewsUK
StrongED
PlingStore
OpenVector/OpenGridPro
Erase/QLock/Stealth - privacy software from Nat Queen
USBrecorder
PipeDream
FireWorkz
ADFFS
Best Game or Diversion
Star Fighter 3000
Best Hardware
RaspberryPi B+
Best New Development
RiscOSM
USB sound hardware support
ImpressionX beta
Best Show of Initiative
ARMini.MX
RiscOSM
USB sound hardware support
ImpressionX
APDL resources rescue
Archimedes Software Preservation Project
Tim Rowledge presentaton "at" ROUGOL via video link from Canada
Vince M Hudd for organising these awards
Best Website or Online Resource
StarDot forums
ROOL
4corn
APDL
Archimedes Software Preservation Project
WIMPbasic
Jim Lesurf Audio Misc
Best Publication or Offline Resource
Archive
Drag n Drop
Bruce Smith book re-releases
Best Foreign Language Resource
riscos.fr
GAGnews
ArcSite
Best Show or Event
RISC OS London Show (we might be biased on this one, but it was good :-)
Most Innovative or Interesting Project
ARMini.MX
CJE laptop plans
RISC OS Pico
Archimedes Software Preservation Project
Steve Drain's Raspberry Pip
4K Ultra HD display
Best Overall Contributor to RISC OS
Jeffrey Lee
Bryan Hogan for organising ROUGOL meetings and the London Show (*blush* I had nothing to do with this suggestion, honest!)
David Bradforth
Willi Theis
ROOL
Andrew Rawnsley
Chris Evans / Andrew Conroy
The Centre for Computing History for their work preserving Acorn and other equipment
David Holden RIP
Broken Cog of the Year
ARMini.MX for creating such an good build up of interest and excitement... then nothing, losing the momentum :-(
Archimedes Software Preservation Project, a preservation website down for months!
RISC OS Pico visibility, not on Raspberry Pi or ROOL download pages
Archive Magazine, only two issues published in the year :-(
New EU VAT rules making cross border electronic purchases difficult for small firms
ROOL Bounty scheme, which doesn't seem to generate enough interest to pay for anything
RComp websites - disjointed, lack of updates
This question, for its potential to cause upset within the community!
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