The Thomas-Krenn Award

The Thomas-Krenn Award

Our contribution of support for the open source community

Are you looking for new ideas on open source? Would you like to interact with experts in this field? Do you need assistance implementing an open source project? Then you've come to the right place! The Thomas-Krenn Award combines everything that is important for open source: an exchange of ideas, funding and further development. We look forward to your entries!

We support open source

Open source has long been an important topic at Thomas-Krenn. With the Thomas-Krenn Award (formerly: Open Source Grant), we support outstanding projects in this sector each year with hardware prizes valued at several thousand euros. In this way, we support open source ventures and contribute to a free, sharable and open IT community.

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When will the 2021 Thomas Krenn Award and public voting begin?

Since many in-person trade shows have been canceled due to the current situation, the award ceremony will be postponed slightly this year. More detailed information on the application deadline, how to participate in the public voting, and the announcement of the winners will be available here shortly.


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What are the benefits of participating in the Thomas Krenn Award?

Winners of the Thomas Krenn Award will receive hardware prizes totaling €10,000. The winners’ projects will also be featured on social media channels, our company blog TKmag, the Thomas Krenn Wiki, and other websites.
With this award, the winners will thus have the opportunity to further advance their ideas and projects using the new hardware and will also benefit from increased media exposure.

Attractive hardware prizes – Made in Germany

€ 10,000 worth of hardware from our online shop is up for grabs:

 
  • 1st place: Hardware valued at € 5,000 (net)
     
  • 2nd place: Hardware valued at € 3,000 (net)
     
  • 3rd place: Hardware valued at € 2,000 (net)

 

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An independent jury decides

An independent jury, together with the community's vote, will award prizes to the three most promising projects. Information on the award announcement will be forthcoming.

 

Public vote – everyone can vote

In addition to the members of the independent jury, the community also receives a vote. We want to involve the open source community even more in the Thomas-Krenn Award and enable them to support their favorites. Supporters and users can vote online following the end of the application period.


In our TKmag article, we provide a closer look at the winners of the Thomas Krenn Award 2020.

Participation is simple
  1. Create three shopping carts in the Thomas-Krenn online shop for hardware valued at € 5,000, € 3,000 and € 2,000.
     
  2. Save the shopping carts and enter “Application for the Thomas-Krenn Award” as the shopping cart name. In order to save your cart, you must provide your contact data.
     
  3. Describe the project as well as how the hardware would be used should the project be among the winners.
     
  4. Send the numbers of the saved shopping carts together with the description texts to award@thomas-krenn.com.
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Terms of participation– This is important!

1. Each applicant must be an active member of an open source or community project. Individuals are not eligible to participate in the Award.
 

2. Shopping cart numbers, a project description, and a description of the intended use must be received by us via email by the submission deadline.

3. The winning projects will be featuredin TKmag , so additional information—such as a website address—may be included with the submission.

4. Projects may be submitted multiple times for the Thomas Krenn Award.

5. The winners will be announced at the Chemnitz Linux Days; however, attendance at this event is not a prerequisite for receiving an award.

6. The decision is final and not subject to legal recourse.