Kalzium receives 2005 Intevation Award

Posted on 13. February, 2006 by Georg Greve

Intevation, a German company that also publishes the FreeGIS CD just gave out their 2005 award for achievement in Free Software:

    The "Intevation Award for Achievement in Free Software" at the
    University of Osnabrück has been awarded to Carsten Niehaus for
    developing the KDE application Kalzium.

    Kalzium is an application displaying information about the periodic
    system of the elements. These well organised information go beyond what
    most have still in mind from their school days. Hence Kalzium is
    nowadays part of KDE-Edu and numerous projects to promote Free Software
    in schools - but Kalzium also has its users in science: As feedbacks
    show it is installed as reference in various laboratories.

    "Alongside the large applications these specialised components - like
    Kalzium - are building the social benefit of free software", said
    managing director Frank Koormann in his laudatio last Friday.

    The Intevation-Award for Free Software is one of 25 awards given out each 
    year at the University of Osnabrück for excellent student work. The monetary 
    part of the award is 750 Euro. The price was given out for the fifth time in its history.

 
Such small initiatives and recognitions are generally underestimated. We need more such initiatives.

Excellent, and congratulations to the winner!

About Georg Greve

Georg Greve is a technologist and entrepreneur. Background as a software developer and physicist. Head of product development and Chairman at Vereign AG. Founding president of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). Previously president and CEO at Kolab Systems AG, a Swiss Open Source ISV. In 2009 Georg was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon by the Federal Republic of Germany for his contributions to Open Source and Open Standards.
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