Looks like this missed a few radars: Google and O'Reilly will be doing the Open Source Awards again this year at OSCON 2008.

The nomination process is open to the entire open source community, closing May 15th, 2008. Send your nominations to osawards AT oreilly DOT com. Nominations should include the name of the recipient, any associated project/org, suggested title for the award ("Best Hacker", "Best Community Builder", etc.), and a description of why you are nominating the individual. Google and O'Reilly employees cannot be nominated.

I'd suggest:

Jason Kendall - Best Hacker :)
Marcel Gagné - Best FOSS Advocate

Send your nominations TODAY!

Wow, what an honor to be invited to Chez Marcel and talk a little about one of my hobbies. Marcel, if I may borrow your trusty waiter? François, I have brought with me one of my favorite VQAs with me, would you mind fetching the 2006 Cave Springs Riesling from the chiller and pour for our friends?

François! Ah, I see you are working on your personal website. Does Marcel know you're doing this on company time? I see you're keeping a list of wines Marcel has recommended over the years for him. Very nice! But you really need not manipulate all that HTML, we have extensions for that.

I know Marcel is a fan of Drupal – and in my time, I've been fortunate enough to spend some very quality time with some of the people from the Drupal camp. I, however, am I Joomla! groupie, and I'd love to show you how easy it is to build your own personal website.