Red Hat Innovation Awards | RHCE of the Year
The Red Hat Innovation Awards were created to recognize technological achievements that demonstrate creative thinking and determined problem solving. They honor the individuals and companies who have forged new ground and used Red Hat solutions in inspiring ways.
We want to hear how customers and community users have used Red Hat solutions and projects to improve existing processes, overcome technology challenges, and improve their bottom lines. Red Hat customers and partners worldwide are invited to submit a nomination, or be nominated by a development team leader, business partner, or supplier.
This year we will present the second annual Red Hat Innovation Awards--an opportunity for the Red Hat community to share their stories and be recognized for their commitment to innovating and extending Red Hat technologies. Winning projects from six categories will be recognized at the Red Hat Summit in Boston, June 18-20. From these six category winners, an Innovator of Year Award winner will be selected by the Red Hat community and presented at a special awards ceremony during the Summit.
Process
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As a Red Hat Innovator Award winner, one winner in each category will receive:
You and your project will be featured in:
A panel of judges will select one winner from each of the categories below to be a Red Hat Innovation Award winner. The community will then vote online for the Red Hat Innovator of the Year.
Recognition of the impressive use of management tools, including Red Hat Network and JBoss Operations Network, to drive down TCO and increase ROI.
Recognition of the effective use of Red Hat solutions to heighten the security of IT systems.
Recognition of striking performance and scalability enhancements delivered by open source solutions.
Recognition of the most successful migration from proprietary solutions to open source alternatives.
Recognition of the use of Red Hat's expanding partner ecosystem to create innovative architectures based on open source solutions.
Recognition of unconventional implementations of emerging technologies such as Fedora or other open source projects to create unique solutions.
The Red Hat Innovation Awards are open to all Red Hat customers and partners worldwide. Nominated solutions must be live or in production. You may submit as many Red Hat projects for consideration as you'd like, but each project must be submitted as a separate nomination.
Each application will be reviewed by a panel of distinguished judges. Judges are drawn from Red Hat executives and the analyst and journalist communities. Judges will look at a variety of criteria in determining the individual winners:
| Creative or innovative ways of using Red Hat technology | 20% |
| Impact: | |
| How existing processes were improved or new processes successfully implemented by the project | 15% |
| Technology challenges overcome to achieve goal | 20% |
| Identifiable improvements to the business | 20% |
| Measurable return on investment and increase in competitive advantage generated by the project | 15% |
| Articulate and concise entry | 10% |
Judges will select one winner from each of six categories to be the 2008 Red Hat Innovators. These Innovators' case studies will be posted at www.redhat.com/summit. The Red Hat community online and at the Red Hat Summit will have the chance to review and vote for the project they think should receive the Red Hat Innovator of the Year Award. The Red Hat Innovator Awards will be presented on June 20, 2008 at the Red Hat Summit.
Contest Has Concluded, No More Submissions will Be Considered.
Application deadline is May 2, 2008. Contest is available to legal residents of limited countries. See application information and instructions.
You've proven your Linux smarts and attained your RHCE®. Maybe you've even taken an RHCA® course and obtained a certificate of expertise or two on your way to RHCA. No doubt, you've got talent. Now is the time to prove it...
Red Hat is excited to offer the RHCE of the Year contest. This contest is available to current RHCEs who visit the RHCE of the Year application page, complete the application and include a statement of why they should be selected as the RHCE of the Year. Maybe you're administering 100 different boxes, maybe you've solved an insurmountable problem. We want to hear about it.
Apply today for a chance to see your name in lights, and be named this years RHCE of the Year.
Red Hat will select three applicants to receive the Grant, which covers the cost of registration to the Red Hat Summit June 18-20, 2008 and round-trip coach airline tickets to Boston, Massachusetts, USA. You'll get three nights' hotel accommodation in Boston, admission to conference sessions, all conference meals and great Boston style entertainment each night. You'll also receive an RHCE of the Year plaque and jacket and will be honored at the RHCE/RHCT Summit Happy Hour.
All applications must be submitted before May 2, 2008, so start thinking and get typing.
Summit 2008 is produced by IDG World Expo.
