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community, organized by Hamakor. The conference is held on the first Friday in August (hence its name), usually in the

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area. It lasts one day and includes technical talks, projects' status updates, social meetings and followed by a keysigning party. During the conference, the winner of Hamakor Prize for free software-related achievements is announced. {, class="wikitable" , - style="background-color: #EFEFEF;" ! Year !! Winner !! Activity , - , 2004 , , Maxim Iorsh ,
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conferences and meetings in Israel * Contribution to the Israeli community * Localization of

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* Adopting Open source for the city's education system. , - , 2010 , , * Yehuda Bar-Nir * Blogli's website team * The Department of Software Engineering,

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, - , 2011 , , Nadav Har'El , , Participating in the development of Hspell, the free software Hebrew spell checker

External links

August Penguin’s Homepage
(mostly in Hebrew with an English page)
Hamakor homepage
(in Hebrew) Free and open-source software awards he:המקור (עמותה)#כנס "אוגוסט פינגווין"

See also

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