PortableApps.com Wins Big in the 2009 SourceForge Community Choice Awards at OSCON

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Submitted by John T. Haller on July 29, 2009 - 7:06am

Community Choice AwardsSourceForge.net has announced the winners of the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards and PortableApps.com is the big winner. Sweeping 4 of the 12 categories, a new record, PortableApps.com also closed the night by winning the coveted Best Project award at the awards party and ceremony at the annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention in San Jose, CA. In addition to Best Project, PortableApps.com also won Best Commercial Open Source Project, Best Visual Design and Most Likely to Change the Way You Do Everything.

We would like to thank our designer, DJ Carey, our site admins (Marko Moeller and Ryan McCue), our developers (Chris Morgan, David Dixon II, Geoff Shearsmith, Jacob Mastel, Kevin Porter, Marko Moeller, Michon van Dooren, Nathan D., Oliver Krystal, Patrick Patience, powerjuce, Ryan McCue, Shawn Faucher, Simeon Kühl, Steve Lamerton, Travis Carrico, Zach Hudock, Zach Thibeau), our forum moderators, our translators, our 90,000 community members, our millions and millions of users worldwide, our fans, our friends, our families, SourceForge.net (for hosting our downloads and organizing the awards), Drupal (the open source CMS on which our site runs), all the projects that have worked with us to make their software portable, everyone we have worked with in the past and everyone we will work with in the future.

This would not have been possible without everyone who helped, so you all deserve thanks and a round of applause. You should be proud of what we've done together. Just wait til everyone sees what we accomplish next!

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LOGAN-Portable

July 29, 2009 - 7:27am

Congrats, although I still don't get the 'Best Commercial Open Source Project' award other than PA being on a .com domain. Anyway, congrats!

It's commercial because JTH is seeking partnerships with flash drive manufacturers. They'll pay JTH/PA a percentage of what they sell the flash drives for, likely similar to how U3 did business. Only PA will (hopefully!) remain open and free to all.

Still, it's an impressive win, because none of those deals have actually closed (or at least, we aren't seeing results yet, e.g. in stores).

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BuddhaChu

August 1, 2009 - 12:02pm

Hopefully the publicity gained in these wins help close some deals and get PortableApps.com some cash to pay for server/bandwidth/etc.

(I stuffed the ballot box for PortableApps.com for the competition BTW Wink )

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jmcgarey

August 11, 2009 - 1:29pm

Darn, now that everyone else knows about PA, I won't look like such a genius...

Congrats!

JMç

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Pyromaniac

August 11, 2009 - 6:29pm

many people I talk to don't know about portableapps.com. Even after the awards. I'm sure that many people who know about it now knew about it before the CCAs. And about the genius part, I get that a lot. When I help people with their computers, they're all like "wow your so good with computers." I don't tell them no but I don't say that I am either.

A Great Preformance.
Keep up the good work

Regards,
Marcel v. Pinxteren
IT-System Manager
The Netherlands

PollieXmas

July 29, 2009 - 9:15am

Congrats to all!

Thank you John for having the vision and perseverance to make it to this milestone.

Can wait to see the next one!

Keep plugging away and keep your high standards.

I'll drink to your success tonight.

Regards
Paul

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David Dixon II

July 29, 2009 - 9:44am

We'd be nothing without John's help and expertise. (I hope i spelled that right.)
It was his idea from the start and we decided to take the time out of our lives to assist him along the way, to help him provide these wonderful portables! Smile

Thanks Johnny! and Good Job PortableApps.com!

Na na na, come on!

You did spell it right Smile

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

Well done, well deserved! PortableApps DID Change the Way [I] Do Everything after a friend in another forum brought it to my attention a few years ago. It was a revelation that applications could run without having to be installed... and oh, the freedom! I've been a strong proponent ever since and continue to steer friends and acquaintances and co-workers to the marvels that can be found here. The apps are solid, well chosen, well developed, well supported, and often downright fun to use.

I'm delighted you have succeeded so brilliantly, and that I could help in my tiny way by casting my votes and encouraging others to do so. Rah! PortableApps.com ROCKS!

Cheers forever,
---Fox

Cheers!
---Fox

HA! made my day, congratulations PA crew.
Glad PA won "Most Likely to Change the Way You Do Everything", so true.

Congratulations to the whole team!

Just wondering, was that any sort of price other than good karma, like some kind of financial support to the winners of each category?

That would be great if you got some money to help support the project.

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John T. Haller

July 29, 2009 - 10:11am

We do get some cool trophies though.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

Congrats PortableApps Team!

You guys deserve it.
Thanks again for all the hard work Smile

Indeed, a VERY well deserved honor!

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Sic semper tyrannosauro.

Your work has definitely made my life easier. I use portable Thunderbird, FireFox and MPlayer every day on at least 3 different computers. Thanks!!

And BTW, PortableApps DID Change the Way I Do Everything!

I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you.

... and the strong will to make it happen.

Thank You John for the initial flash, all the time (and money) You've spent on and with PortableApps.com.

What can words more say? ...

Paid for Software more or less?
What You need is OSS!

Is there a video or some pictures of the event?

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John T. Haller

July 29, 2009 - 3:54pm

They're coming on SourceForge.net. The whole event was professionally shot and shown live online. They're putting together some highlights. I think my interview/acceptance speech at the end will be in it.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

I hope they put your speech in it...
(they almost have to do it cause you/we/PortableApps.com won 4 times)

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

They are online now. Nice one John!

Is there ANY way to get a hold of one of these cool flash drives???

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John T. Haller

August 25, 2009 - 12:43pm

I may do a limited run of them for folks who want them. I made 100 for the show and just have a couple left.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

CONGRATULATIONS! thanks to all you guys at PA, and yes, it changed my life, too - made it much much more convenient. besides, it's so much fun - i'm looking forward to your next useful ideas.

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"Most Likely to Change the Way You Do Everything" is definitely your prize!
During my thesis you save my life thanks to gimp portable
Now the 80% of programs I use is a portable version (No more mess with reg file).

Fantastic!!! Those who contributed to the overall development of PortableApps deserve much thanks. I really benefited from your hard work like so many others have. I wish everyone of you the best of luck with all that you do.

If every little bit counts, then I'm glad I voted for PortableApps. A well deserved win for everyone involved.

Hearty congrats to John and the entire PA team! I've used Portable Apps daily via hard drive since its early days. Each and every program within the suite runs very smoothly on all types of hardware configurations, with rarely ever a glitch. IMHO, Portable Apps are the defacto model of what Windows programs should be; nonintrusive and streamlined simplicity in design, installation and operation. They make computing less intimidating to the novice, as well as more enjoyable to the experienced. I'm a huge advocate of the suite, and demonstrate & recommend them to clients & friends on virtually a daily basis. All of the awards are definitely very well deserved, and change the face of personal computing as we know it. Keep up the great work, PA team!

>REALITY ERROR: UNIVERSE HALTED

Glad my vote was able to help - but you deserve it for not only the hard work but also for your dedication to FOSS.

__

JG

A lot of names are missing in the dev list, like Kai, MaienM, and I and a bunch of other people?

Also no mod names are even mentioned Sad

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John T. Haller

July 31, 2009 - 7:37pm

It's from the team page. Michon van Dooren = MaienM. Does Kai have a released official app? I didn't list out the forum or IRC mods or the translators. I spose I could though

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

Yeeeeeessss!! a well deserved price for this AMAZING project, I love it! everyday I look forward to see what's new on the site and I love it and can't wait to see what the future holds!.

eveenstra

August 11, 2009 - 10:28pm

kinda cool, if you look at the graphs showing how many votes there were, around July 18 there was a huge spike in PA.c votes in all the categories, in 2 or 3 cases those spikes made them win.
Anyway, keep up the good work. whenever i work in Windows, i always use PortableApps. They're a ton faster and easier on your system.

.: previously I was one of the loyal IE users until my friend showed me Firefox then. And after one fateful encounter, I am using portable Fx since it still in 1.x.x.x (didn't remember the exact version) and since then my closest USB buddy is this superb PA software. Million of thanks for the great work guys, and i hope Fx can be the best browsers of them all! :.

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BuddhaChu

September 5, 2009 - 10:47pm

Are the awards ceremony videos available online yet? If so, post a link plz!

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Simeon

September 6, 2009 - 6:15pm

They are on the Sourceforge CCA 2009 page.

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portablappsfan

October 10, 2009 - 3:25am

hope you guys see this comment!!, sencillamente una serie de ideas brillantes, esyo facinado de su trabajo y lo presumo mucho con mis amigos ademas de que es un conjunto de utlidades varias, de verdad les aplaudo mucho, MUCHO su trabajo y estoy muy contento, you did a really nice job keep doing that hard work, i'm very very grateful with your apps. THANK YOU!!!