Hamakor prize

Hamakor awards a prize annually, recognizing an Israeli who has made a significant and important contribution to Free Software. The awardee is determined in an Academy Award-like process, with all Hamakor members and friends being eligible to vote for the most deserving person, who is typically announced at the annual August Penguin event. In 2010, the prize was given in several categories: personal contribution, team/group or institute contribution and contribution for the Education system.

Year

Winner

Activity

2004

Maxim Iorsh

Culmus project providing high-quality Hebrew
fonts.

2005

Yael Vaya Talmor

Creating Free-software-based computer rooms in schools.

2006

— no prize awarded —

2007

— no prize awarded —

2008

Meir Kriheli

Creating and running Whatsup, an Israeli Free
Software news and community portal.

2009
  • Gábor Szabó
  • Shachar Shemesh
  • Tomer Cohen
  • Education Dept. of
    Petah Tikva
  • Organizing Perl conferences and meetings in
    Israel.
  • Localization of Firefox.
  • Adopting Open Source for the city’s education system.
  • General contribution to the Israeli Free Software scene.

2010
  • Writing 40 Greasemonkey scripts for fixing
    websites and improving Firefox support.
  • Building a free (blogging) platform based on
    WordPress MU, encouraging Free Software.
  • Translating and supporting Moodle.

2011

Nadav Har’el

Participated in developing Hspell, the Free Hebrew
spell-checker.