Awarded projects

Hoodie is one of the major open source contenders in this area - an extensible web application development framework written in with the distinct goal of making full-stack application accessible and easy to front-end developers and designers. That means system administration, server provisioning, cluster configuration - not even mentioning the security aspects of doing this without too much background. The Global Directories project (part of InternetWide.org) wants to solve the problem of maintenance of ones social graph while keeping the nature of relationships private among the people involved - and while at it create an exciting new mechanism to discover new services and lower the threshold of communication security. Sometimes this involves sharing their whole address book with some intransparent commercial entity that is prepared to suck up this information in return for the right to later sell it to whomever they like for whatever purpose they like. On the user side, as a consumer of the business card, you are of course able to add additional information you find important yourself (the equivalent of making a note on the backside) and store that in your local copy of the information. A donation was made to developer Sander Bos to provide travel costs to do a presentation at OHM about the discovery and subsequent fix of a security bug in OpenBSD's networking code.