Nate Aune finalist in Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest

Jazkarta founder Nate Aune is one of six finalists in the 2007 Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest.  Nate was chosen for his work on Plone4Artists, a suite of products providing multimedia support for Plone, an open source content management system.

Plone4Artists won the majority vote in a poll where site visitors voted for their favorite application.

The Pizzigati Prize honors the brief life of Tony Pizzigati, an early advocate of open source computing who spent his college years at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology, where he worked at the world-famous MIT Media Lab and later the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. Three years after his 1992 graduation, Pizzigati, then 24 and a software consultant, died in an auto accident on his way into Silicon Valley.