The Source Forge Community Choice Awards

The Source Forge Community Choice Awards reward outstanding software projects. Nominated projects have to show creativity, innovations and usefulness.

General information

Source Forge classifies software in twelve different categories. Anyone can nominate one of the ten software companies that compete against each other in each of these categories. Certain requirements exist, such as the date of release of the software for the best new project category. Otherwise, the competition remains very open.

Categories

Twelve categories exist, and enough different possible uses of software to represent fairly the current software market. A category exists for best project for the enterprise, for developers, for academia or for gamers. This covers a wide range of possible users. Special features can also play an important part, such as the visual aspect with the best visual design award. A category stands out from the rest: the most likely to change the way you do everything award. This award goes to a project that approaches software in a brand new manner and offers innovative solutions for everyday computer use. This category makes the Source Forge Community Choice Awards a way of discovering tomorrow's technology.

Prizes

Winners do not get money or any kind of compensation. Their software gains prestige and publicity, and a download link appears on Source Forge's list of winners.

The Source Forge awards efficiently identify outstanding software. Using their list of winners as a recommendation list for what to download and use means keeping up with technology and having access to quality software for free.