Friday night, the JOSCARs ceremony took place here at the J and Beyond 2013 conference in the Netherlands.
Like previous years, the ceremony was presented by Brian Teeman, this year with the help of Nicholas from Akeeba Backup. Both of the guys actually won an award (Nic won two!), and they were helped by last year's winner of "Outstanding Personal Achievement" award, Ryan Ozimek.
The three Joomlaholics wore their beach outfits, in line with the event slogan "Joomla on the beach". In fact, a bike trip to the local beach for a party was planned for the evening - but the weather put a stop to that. The evening ended with a dinner in the hotel restaurant and a great party in the downstairs bar
Ask Jack Bremer if he was dancing... ;).
Outstanding Personal Achievement
In addition to the prizes mentioned below, a special jury had discussed two special prizes: "Outstanding Personal Achievement" and "Joomla Innovation of the Year". The jury told the audience that they had a hard time picking a winner in these categories, simply because there are so many worthy candidates.
For the "Joomla Innovation of the Year" award, the jury wanted to recognize the services that provide Joomla web site monitoring and upgrades. The jury said that they considered the monitoring services themselves an innovations. The prize was thus given jointly to the following companies, who had launced Joomla monitoring services in the last year:
- Watchful.li (Victor Drover)
- AdminCredible (Steve Burge and TJ Baker)
- MyJoomla (Phil Taylor)
The Watchful.li team
The last, and most prestigious award, the one for "Outstanding Personal Achievement", was given to one of 5 nominees the jury wanted to mention specifically for their achivements in the past years. The nominees were:
- Nick Savov
- Guillermo Bravo
- Elin Waring
- Tom Hutchinson and George Wilson
The prize was presented to Guillermo Bravo. He came on stage and received the award, clearly moved and happy for receiving it. He said: "Bring people into the community - together we can do great thing. There is a big community of Joomla users in Latin America, but due to the language issues they never participate in the project or Joomla staff. It has been a big challenge to bring Spanish language to the Joomla Magazine." He then ended his speech with a short thank-you in Spanish.
The following prizes were given as a result of an online nomination and votes from the participants of J and Beyond 2013.
Free Joomla Add-ons
Cost-free extensions or tools, excluding templates
- AkeebaBackup (winner)
- JCE Editor
- Kunena
- xmap
Commercial Joomla Add-ons
Paid extensions or tools, excluding templates
Nicolas from Akeeba
Joomla Template Systems
Free or commercial template frameworks or boiler-plates
Sascha and Steffan from YooTheme
Joomla Services
Joomla-specific services such as hosting, training, support, contracting, etc...
Corporate Web Sites
Web sites built for the corporate sector
The Stackideas team
Non-corporate Web Sites
Web sites built for the non-corporate sector such as NGOs, non-profits and Government
eCommerce Web Sites
Web sites built for online storefront
Mobile Web Sites
Web sites built for the mobile web
Philip Locke, JooStrap
Github Junkie
Recognising core code contributions
- David Hurley (winner)
- Elin Waring
- Mark Dexter
- Nick Savov
David Hurley
Communications Junkie
Participation in Joomla chat rooms, blogs and on social media channels
- Brian Teeman (winner)
- Dianne Henning
- Nick Savov
- Radek Suski
Brian Teeman
Bug Junkie
Finding and/or fixing bugs on the tracker
- Jean-Marie Simonet (winner)
- Michael Babker
- Nick Savov
- Roberto Segura
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