Red Hat Innovation Award

How Red Hat Innovation Award category winners were selected

Each application was reviewed by a panel of judges. The panel of judges included Red Hat executives, community leaders, and journalists. Submissions were judged on the following criteria:

• Creativity: What new or innovative ways were you able to use Red Hat technology?
• Impact:
  • How were existing processes improved or new processes successfully implemented by the project?
  • What technology challenges needed to be overcome to achieve this goal?
  • What can the business do today that it couldn't do before?
  • Was there a measurable return on investment (ROI) and increase in competitive advantage generated by the project?
• Presentation: Was the entry articulate and concise?

Judges selected one winner from each category. From this group, the Red Hat community at the Red Hat Summit and on redhat.com will have the chance to review and vote for the project they think should receive the Red Hat Innovator of the Year award. Innovation winners in each category will also be reviewed via their submission presentation for the Red Hat Summit Innovation track and a case study published in the Conference Guide and on redhat.com. The Red Hat Innovation Awards will be presented on May 11, 2006 at Red Hat Summit.

Judges:

• Matt Asay, Blogger, Infoworld
• Sacha Labourey, CTO, JBoss, a Division of Red Hat
• Michael Tiemann, President, Open Source Initiatives, Red Hat
• Laurent Lachal, Open Source Research Director, Ovum Ltd.

Questions:

• Email summit@redhat.com