The Icon Bar: Nominations open for the Drobe Icon Bar awards 2009

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Nominations open for the Drobe Icon Bar awards 2009

Posted by Jeffrey Lee on 20:30, 13/12/2009
Drobe, RISC OS, Hardware, Software, Shows, Awards

For the past several years Drobe have run their yearly Drobe awards, in which members of the public nominate and vote for the RISC OS products and people who they believe have best served the platform over the course of the year. After a quick check with Drobe foreman Chris Williams to make sure he wasn't planning on running the awards this year, the staff at TIB decided it would be a good idea if we picked up the metaphorical torch and ran the awards ourselves. So, ladies and gentlemen, prepare for the first annual Icon Bar awards!

This year there will be four categories open for nomination. Once a suitable number of nominations have been collected, the voting booths will be opened. Then at the end of the year the votes will be tallied and the winner and runner-up for each category will be revealed. The categories for this year are:

Best commercial product
Best non-commercial product
Best new development
Best RISC OS show/event

Of course, if you want to nominate something that doesn't fit into any of the above categories, feel free to send it in and we'll see what we can do!

Update: Thanks for all your suggestions. Voting is now open until the end of the year.

	Nominations open for the ~~Drobe~~ Icon Bar awards 2009
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Eric Rucker	Message #112290, posted by bhtooefr at 21:36, 13/12/2009
Member Posts: 337	Best new development nomination: BeagleBoard port of RISC OS 5 [Edited by bhtooefr at 21:36, 13/12/2009]
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Edward Rogers	Message #112291, posted by Monty at 21:48, 13/12/2009, in reply to message #112290
Member Posts: 154	Best legal argument: Paul M.
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Blind Moose	Message #112292, posted by Acornut at 22:02, 13/12/2009, in reply to message #112290
No-eye-deer (No Idea) Posts: 487	Best non-commercial product:- NetSurf
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Jason Togneri	Message #112295, posted by filecore at 05:33, 14/12/2009, in reply to message #112292
The Iron Lord and coming soon: Haunted House Posts: 3868	If it's an award, what are you awarding? I'd probably go for Beagleboard pr0ting.
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Trevor Johnson	Message #112312, posted by trevj at 11:55, 14/12/2009, in reply to message #112290
Member Posts: 660	• Best commercial product nomination: PostScript 3 printer drivers • Best RISC OS show/event nomination: Alt Party 2009 (Sophie Wilson) - not that I was there but have watched the videos
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VinceH	Message #112313, posted by VincceH at 11:55, 14/12/2009, in reply to message #112295
Lowering the tone since the dawn of time Posts: 1600	If it's an award, what are you awarding? The right of the winner to say they won in the Icon Bar awards 2009.
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Jeffrey Lee	Message #112314, posted by Phlamethrower at 12:10, 14/12/2009, in reply to message #112313
Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff Posts: 15100	If it's an award, what are you awarding? The right of the winner to say they won in the Icon Bar awards 2009. Plus a fancy image with which they can adorn their website! Surely that's what everyone wants for Christmas? (Exact image TBD)
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Rob Kendrick	Message #112318, posted by nunfetishist at 12:27, 14/12/2009, in reply to message #112314
Today's phish is trout a la creme. Posts: 525	Plus a fancy image with which they can adorn their website! Surely that's what everyone wants for Christmas? (Exact image TBD) Can it have cute young boys?
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Jason Togneri	Message #112320, posted by filecore at 13:08, 14/12/2009, in reply to message #112312
The Iron Lord and coming soon: Haunted House Posts: 3868	• Best RISC OS show/event nomination: Alt Party 2009 (Sophie Wilson) - not that I was there but have watched the videos Ooh, definitely that. It was a great presentation - I know 'cuz I was there and it was probably my video you watched. I sent an email asking for a copy of the slideshow, but never got a response
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Bryan Hogan	Message #112322, posted by helpful at 14:00, 14/12/2009, in reply to message #112320
Member Posts: 255	Best RISC OS show/event: Am I allowed to nominate the London Show Or maybe that goes down as "Best 1st attempt at organising a show by a group who had never done anything like that before and were astonished that nothing went wrong". Could probably do with a snappier title.
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Martin Bazley	Message #112325, posted by swirlythingy at 14:41, 14/12/2009, in reply to message #112312
Placenta Mendacium Est Posts: 460	• Best commercial product nomination: PostScript 3 printer drivers I'm with Trevor on this one - it's a very significant step forward in graphics development. Perhaps it's time for NetSurf to be fobbed off with a 'Lifetime Achievement Award' for best non-commercial - and anyway, didn't they say they were going to stop RISC OS development?
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Rob Kendrick	Message #112333, posted by nunfetishist at 15:37, 14/12/2009, in reply to message #112325
Today's phish is trout a la creme. Posts: 525	Perhaps it's time for NetSurf to be fobbed off with a 'Lifetime Achievement Award' for best non-commercial - and anyway, didn't they say they were going to stop RISC OS development? Life is not ever-lasting.
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Trevor Johnson	Message #112334, posted by trevj at 15:46, 14/12/2009, in reply to message #112325
Member Posts: 660	Both products are great and would be worthy winners of the category. The more nominations, the better!
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Alan Robertson	Message #112336, posted by nytrex at 16:06, 14/12/2009, in reply to message #112334
Member Posts: 118	Best commercial product: PostScript 3 Printer Drivers Best non-commercial product: GCC Best new development: RISC OS on BeagleBoard
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George Greenfield	Message #112342, posted by Bucksboy at 17:36, 14/12/2009, in reply to message #112336
Member Posts: 91	Best commercial product: Postscript 3 Printer Drivers (1st) for transforming the efficacy of RISC OS for serious print work. Artworks (2nd), which has become by far the most powerful and versatile graphics package available to RO users. Best non-commercial product: Firefox (1st): still the most capable RO browser and quite useable on a fast machine. Netsurf (2nd): keep up the good work! Best new development: RISC OS on BeagleBoard (1st, 2nd and 3rd!)
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Eric Rucker	Message #112343, posted by bhtooefr at 17:41, 14/12/2009, in reply to message #112342
Member Posts: 337	My second place nomination for best new development: That guy getting PM to admit ROL is going nowhere, in public, on video
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Edward Rogers	Message #112345, posted by Monty at 17:49, 14/12/2009, in reply to message #112343
Member Posts: 154	I second his second place nomination.
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Alan Robertson	Message #112348, posted by nytrex at 17:57, 14/12/2009, in reply to message #112343
Member Posts: 118	My second place nomination for best new development: That guy getting PM to admit ROL is going nowhere, in public, on video Excellent - wish I had thought of that!
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Doug Webb	Message #112349, posted by bluenose at 18:22, 14/12/2009, in reply to message #112318
Member Posts: 9	Plus a fancy image with which they can adorn their website! Surely that's what everyone wants for Christmas? (Exact image TBD) Can it have cute young boys? You can have what ever you like as long as you deliver Javascript functionality in Netsurf. Now the serious bit. Flame Alert - Best commercial product - RISC OS 6.16 as it has some nice visual touches and additions like 64bit colour modes and support for Vpod, pity it not available to all hardware platforms. Followed by Postscript 3 for at last bring this element of printing up to date. Best non-commercial product - Firefox on RISC OS followed by GCC and any of Dave Higton's USB apps..great fun racing that car around my desk Best new development - RISC OS on the Beagleboard Best RISC OS show/event - MUG show [Edited by bluenose at 18:23, 14/12/2009] [Edited by bluenose at 18:24, 14/12/2009] [Edited by bluenose at 18:24, 14/12/2009] [Edited by bluenose at 18:25, 14/12/2009]
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Trevor Johnson	Message #112357, posted by trevj at 20:30, 14/12/2009, in reply to message #112349
Member Posts: 660	[...]Best commercial product - RISC OS 6.16 as it has some nice visual touches and additions like 64bit colour modes and support for Vpod, pity it not available to all hardware platforms.[...] I was on the point of nominating this earlier. But being pedantic, the 64k colour modes/sprites, etc. (in RO6.14) are documented as being a 2008 development. Perhaps the rules could be bent to include it anyway.
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Doug Webb	Message #112358, posted by bluenose at 21:16, 14/12/2009, in reply to message #112357
Member Posts: 9	Aah, well now you point it out I agree as I have just checked 6.16 details and it added no new end user features but just cleaned up the 6.14 code. Still depends on the rules of the game as they say as to if it can be included or not. Anyway Postscript 3 drivers are a equally worthy nomination.
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Steffen Huber	Message #112359, posted by hubersn at 21:25, 14/12/2009, in reply to message #112358
Member Posts: 91	Best commercial product: Dual-head DVI upgrade for ViewFinder.
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John Rickman	Message #112402, posted by riscman at 18:31, 16/12/2009, in reply to message #112359
Member Posts: 1	Best commercial product PostScript 3 drivers Best non-commercial product !StrongED - thanks Fred Best new development Icon Bar awards! Best RISC OS show/event MUG Christmas Show - well I would say that!
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