Back home for a long weekend (today is a UK bank holiday) after spending most of last week in London on business. I managed to fit in an IRC chat one evening with some of my fellow judges of the OpenOffice.org Community Innovation Programme (CIP). Sun Microsystems offered multi-million dollar prize money earlier in the year to the open-source projects it is most closely aligned with.

Evaluating the entries for the OpenOffice.org portion has proved challenging. The entries have covered all aspects of community activity, from heavy hacking through to translating, documenting… For each entry we have had to take expert opinion, and then rate the entries on a consistent basis using the published judging criteria.

I don’t know who thought it would be a good idea to do this in the middle of the holiday season, and in my case, in the build up to the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference However, spreadsheets are going backwards and forwards, and light is appearing at the end of the judging tunnel.

As someone once said, if you have something that needs doing, give it to a busy person so if you want to see what else this busy person has been up to, there’s a new version of the Conference Programme online and available for download.

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