Nomination Rules for the SourceForge Community Choice Awards

The SourceForge Community Choice Awards are a terrific vehicle for recognizing excellence in open source software design. Following the nomination rules for the SourceForge Community Choice Awards is really very simple. Here is a quick breakdown of the four rules that govern these nominations.

Two parts: nomination and voting

A nomination is the first step for a project to win a Community Choice Award from SourceForge. After the nomination round, finalists are selected on which the community may vote. The result of this vote determines the winner. This is not complicated, but can take some time.

Nomination

After the period for open nomination closes, the top ten projects with the most votes in each category are now the finalists. These nominations form the pool on which the community votes. After the votes are cast, the winners in the various categories are announced.

One project, one category, one time

An individual can only nominate any given project for one category, one time. You may nominate more than one project in each category, as long as the projects are different. Multiple nominations from the same nominator will be discarded.

The vote

After the nominations are made and the finalists are announced, it is time to vote. As with nominations, each person is only allowed one vote in each category. Even if someone has nominated more than one project to the same category, he or she may still only vote for one of them.

The SourceForge Community Choice Awards are a great way to promote good open source software design. By nominating noteworthy open source projects, everyone can help make the computing world a better place.