From frank.koormann at intevation.de Mon Feb 13 14:42:05 2006 From: frank.koormann at intevation.de (Frank Koormann) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:42:05 +0100 Subject: [Intevation News] Intevation Award 2005 for KDE project Kalzium Message-ID: <20060213134205.GA19078@intevation.de> The "Intevation Award for Achievement in Free Software" at the University of Osnabr?ck has been awarded to Carsten Niehaus for developing the KDE application Kalzium [1]. 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 [2, in German] given out each year at the University of Osnabr?ck 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. [1] http://edu.kde.org/kalzium/ [2] http://www2.uni-osnabrueck.de/career_service/foerderpreise/update/stifter_liste.cfm