In-Person and Online Votes Taken Over Three Days Will Determine Winner

SAN FRANCISCO–(EMWNews)–

Core News Facts

• GroundWork Open Source is sponsoring a competition amongst four

  popular open source mascots: “Tux”

  the Linux kernel penguin, “Beastie”

  the BSD daemon, Mozilla’s Firefox, and “The

  Gnu” GNU.

• The purpose of the competition is to drum up excitement around famous,

  non-commercial open source icons and to determine which is the

  favorite in the minds of today’s most

  dedicated open source fans.

• GroundWork will be videotaping LinuxWorld Conference and Expo

  interviews with attendees on the show floor and asking them to

  audition on behalf of their chosen open source mascot.

• The competition will begin at 7:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, August 5.

• The competition will end at 11:59 PM PDT on Thursday, August 7.

• GroundWork is inviting all open source fans to vote at Booth #501

  during the conference or online at: http://www.groundworkopensource.com/community/lwce08.html.

• The “winner” of

  the competition will be announced Tuesday, August 12 at 7:00 AM EDT.

Multimedia Elements

“Who’s

with the four contestants in costume

Watch the video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntYQw09umnM

Watch the video on Google Video:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2252476793785441149&hl=en

Links to Related Content

• Online

  voting page for “Who’s

  The Next Open Source Idol?” [http://www.groundworkopensource.com/community/lwce08.html]

• YouTube Channel

  where “Who’s The

  Next Open Source Idol?” will be posted

  (GroundWork TV) [http://www.youtube.com/user/groundworktv]

• Profile for

  Tux, the Linux mascot (Wikipedia) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_the_penguin]

• Profile

  for Beastie, the BSD Daemon (Wikipedia) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beastie_%28mascot%29]

• More information on The GNU

  (Wikipedia) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU]

• More information on

  Mozilla’s Firefox (Wikipedia) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox]

• Link to GroundWork

  blog [http://www.groundworkopensource.com/blog/]

About Groundwork

San Francisco-based GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (http://www.groundworkopensource.com)

is the market leader in commercial open source network and systems

management software, delivering enterprise-class network, system and

application management solutions at a fraction of the cost of

proprietary solutions.

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