Les Trophées du Libre
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Les Trophées du Libre contest is a free software
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...

 contest whose goal is to promote innovative software projects and give these projects recognition and media coverage - recently also to motivate students and academic institutions with special prizes. The competition is international and it is intended both to free development professionals and amateurs. Participating projects can apply for seven categories: Security, Games, Multimedia, Business Management, Education, Science applications and administration and communities.

The first edition (2003) had 113 applying projects from 18 different countries.

The president for the 2009 edition is Pierre Spilleboudt. The jury is composed of about 30 experts. The Trophées du Libres fifth award ceremony took place in June 2009.

1st edition - 2003

  • Gcompris
    GCompris
    GCompris is a suite of free educational software for children aged 2 to 10., and is currently part of the GNU project.It is available for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and other systems...

     in the category of "Educational"
  • Koha
    Koha (software)
    Koha is an open source Integrated Library System , used world-wide by public, school and special libraries. The name koha comes from a Māori term for a gift or donation .- Features :...

     in the category "Public Organizations"
  • GOK in the category of "Accessibility"
  • Dolibarr
    Dolibarr
    Dolibarr ERP/CRM is an open source/free software package for small and medium companies, foundations or freelancers. It includes different features for Enterprise Resource Planning and Customer Relationship Management but also other features for different activities.- Features :There are several...

     in the category "Management Company"
  • Weasel Reader in the category of "Public"
  • Vega Strike
    Vega Strike
    Vega Strike is a first-person space trading and combat simulator, developed for Microsoft Windows, POSIX Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, and Mac OS X systems. Many of the core game mechanics of Vega Strike are indirectly inspired by Elite...

     in the category "Games"

2nd edition - 2005

  • Lodel in the category "Public Organizations and Communities"
  • Prométhée in the category of "Education"
  • MedinTux
    MedinTux
    MedinTux is a free healthcare software for managing consultations, written for the French environment.-Features:Originally written for the French emergency services, its modular conception allow it to be used in almost any area of medical or paramedical specialization.The software works in a...

     in the category "Business Management"
  • VideoLAN
    VideoLAN
    VideoLAN is a project that develops software for playing video and other media formats across a local area network . It originally developed two programs for media streaming, VideoLAN Client and VideoLAN Server , but most of the features of VLS have been incorporated into VLC, with the result...

     in the category of "Multimedia"
  • NuFW
    NuFW
    NuFW is a GPL extension to Netfilter . It adds authentication to filtering rules. NuFW is also provided as a hardware firewall, in the EdenWall firewalling appliance.- Introduction :...

     in the category "Security"
  • MediaWiki
    MediaWiki
    MediaWiki is a popular free web-based wiki software application. Developed by the Wikimedia Foundation, it is used to run all of its projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikinews. Numerous other wikis around the world also use it to power their websites...

     as "Special Prize PHP"

3rd edition - 2006

  • Public Organizations and Communities
  1. OpenElec, complete management tools of the electoral rolls
  2. demexp, system waiter of vote on computer
  3. OpenJUMP, geographical information system

  • Education
  1. Stellarium,planetarium computerized for the exploration of stars, constellations,…
  2. ICONITO, gate dedicated to the educational/school actors integrating tools and resources
  3. Prométhée, "ready to use" open source Virtual Learning Environment for schools 100% free
    • Business Management:
  4. Open Mobile IS, framework for the development of mobile applications of companies
  5. SpagoBI
    SpagoBI
    SpagoBI is the only entirely Open Source Business Intelligence suite, belonging to the free/open source SpagoWorld initiative, founded and supported by Engineering Group.....

    , integrated platform of decisional data processing
  6. Pentaho
    Pentaho
    The Pentaho BI Suite is open source Business Intelligence suite with integrated reporting, dashboard, data mining, workflow and ETL capabilities. Pentaho is headquartered in Orlando, USA.- Overview :...

    , Platform of decisional and management of flows in company
    • Multimedia
  7. Ekiga GnomeMeeting, software of telephony on Internet
  8. Gcstar
    GCstar
    GCstar is an open source application for managing personal collections. Detailed information on each item can be automatically retrieved from the Internet and the user can store additional data, such as the location or whom he/she has lent them to...

    , personal manager of collections multimedia
  9. Azureus
    Vuze
    Vuze is a BitTorrent client used to transfer files via the BitTorrent protocol. Vuze is written in Java, and uses the Azureus Engine. In addition to downloading data linked to by .torrent files, Azureus allows users to view, publish and share original DVD and HD quality video content...

    , P2P-client for the distribution of big binary files
    • Security
  10. OCS Inventory Next Generation
    OCS Inventory
    Open Computer and Software Inventory Next Generation is free software that enables users to inventory their IT assets. OCS-NG collects information about the hardware and software of networked machines running the OCS client program . OCS can be used to visualize the inventory through a web interface...

    , tool for monitoring the configuration of the software on networks
  11. GLPI
    GLPI
    GLPI, an initialism for Gestionnaire libre de parc informatique , is a free trouble ticket system software that anyone can use to build up a database with an inventory for computer equipment...

    , management tool of helpdesk under licence GPL
  12. M0n0wall
    M0n0wall
    m0n0wall is an embedded firewall distribution of FreeBSD, one of the BSD operating system descendants. It provides a small image which can be put on Compact Flash cards as well as on CDROMs and hard disks. It runs on a number of embedded platforms and generic PCs...

    , firewall multipurpose
    • PHP
  13. alternc, software of management of mutualized lodging
  14. phpMyVisites, measure of audience and statistics for the Web sites
  15. phpMyAdmin
    PhpMyAdmin
    phpMyAdmin is an open source tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL with the use of a Web browser. It can perform various tasks such as creating, modifying or deleting databases, tables, fields or rows; executing SQL statements; or managing users and...

    , Web manager for the database MySQL, translated into 50 languages

4th edition - 2007

Security
Business Management
Administration and Communities
Educational Software
Multimedia / Games
Scientific Software


Special prize of the jury: Bioclipse
Bioclipse
The Bioclipse project is a Java-based, open source, visual platform for chemo- and bioinformatics based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform...

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5th edition - 2009

Multimedia
Professional
Security
Administration
Sciences
Hobbies
Education


Special awards:
  • Open source spirit award: Ksplice
  • Special jury award: Coherence
  • Innovative project award: GRAPHITE
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