July 11, 2011 at 19:43The organizers of the contest "Best Free Project of Russia" 2010 decided to save
It is published at the request of and on behalf of Ilya Muravyov, about whom I already wrote in a post about the problem with ctrl + shift in linux.
I had the opportunity at the end of 2010 to participate in the aforementioned competition . We can only say positively about the very idea of the contest - after all, this is one of the few ways to show yourself and evaluate the Open Source movement in Russia as a whole. However, there is one problem.
An impressive prize, according to the organizers of the competition (“Linux Format” with the support of several companies), was not given to me as the runner-up in the “Individual Project” nomination. They did not give not only me, but also the author of GoldenDict, Isakov Konstantin, who took 1st place in the same nomination; and surely the rest of the winners of the “contest” will confirm the same. And given the fact that the organizers are no longer responding by mail, this means that there will be no money (I recall - the contest ended in mid-December 2010).
The point, of course, is not only money: the goal of this post is to inform other participants of the 2010 competition, as well as possible participants of the future contest "Best Free Project in Russia" -2011, that there was no reason and will not be involved . Even the diploma mentioned below in correspondence with one of the organizers can not wait.
Ilya Muravyov,
author of the Bombono DVD
PS program In order not to be unfounded, I quote below my correspondence with the organizers of the contest, out of as many as seven letters (the only contact person with me was Linux center employee Svetlana Semavina).
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Date: Thu , 16 Dec 2010 19:31:51 +0300
From: Svetlana Semavina
To: mur ... @ yandex.ru
Subject: contest "The best free project of Russia - 2010"
Good afternoon, Ilya!
As you may have noticed, your project took 2nd place in the nomination
“Individual project” in the competition “Best Free Project of Russia - 2010”. Congratulations on behalf of the GNU / Linux Center and all the organizers!
We need to solve organizational issues:
1. We will be able to give your award to you by the end of February, when we collect all
contributions from sponsors. How do you best convey?
2. You will need to forward the diploma, for this you need an address with an index and a
full name of the recipient.
Sincerely,
Svetlana Semavina
GNU / Linuxcenter
(812) 309-06-86
(911) 005-42-54
Message-ID: <4D0A6AE7.2070203@yandex.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4D0A3EF7.7090004@linuxcenter.ru>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:39:19 +0300
From: Ilya Murav'jov
Subject: Re: contest "The best free project of Russia - 2010"
Svetlana Semavina writes:
Thanks, :)
Transfer to my bank account (for example).
Address: Yaroslavl region, Yaroslavl, 150057, <...>
Full name: Ilya Alekseevich Muravyov
It would be nice to receive, in addition, a (nominal, beautiful) logo of the competition,
I would put it on the project website with a link to you: image
~ 120x70 in size and something like that.
Ilya Muravyov
Message-ID: <4D6ED7CB.5030107@yandex.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4D0A3EF7.7090004@linuxcenter.ru>
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 02:50:35 +0300
From: Ilya Murav'jov
To: Svetlana Semavina
Subject: Re: contest "The best free project of Russia - 2010"
Svetlana Semavina writes:
Hello Svetlana!
When can I get an award for 2nd place in the competition, and at the same time a diploma?
Sincerely,
Ilya Muravyov
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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:34:00 +0300
From: Svetlana Semavina
To: Ilya Murav'jov
Subject: Re: contest "The best free project of Russia - 2010"
Ilya, good afternoon!
while we have not all sponsors paid their part of the money, so the issuance of
cash prizes is slightly delayed. We will try to pay in late
March or early April.
And, it would be more convenient for us to send the award through - through the CONTACT system
or Blitz. And in that, and in another case, the money is obtained by passport in
a bank branch. Tell us how you prefer to get them!
List of bank branches working with CONTACT (you need to choose one
bank branch to receive money, money will be sent to
it): www.contact-sys.com/transfer/to.html
Blitz is any branch of Sberbank (here a specific bank branch
no need to choose).
Sincerely,
Svetlana Semavina
GNU / Linuxcenter
(812) 309-06-86
(911) 005-42-54
03.03.2011 02:50, Ilya Murav'jov writes:
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In-Reply-To: <4D7E2758.4070106@linuxcenter.ru>
Date: Sat, Mar 19, 2011 2:15:20 PM +0300
From: Ilya Murav'jov
To: Svetlana Semavina
Subject: Re: contest "The best free project of Russia - 2010"
Svetlana Semavina writes:
Ok, let's get in touch. As I understand it,
my name is enough to send (but I can also send a photocopy of my passport to you):
Ilya Alekseevich
Muravyov Ilya Muravyev
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:58:04 +0300
From: Svetlana Semavina
To: Ilya Murav'jov
Subject: Re: contest "The best free project of Russia - 2010"
Ilya!
if through CONTACT, you still need to choose a bank branch convenient for you, as
money is sent to a specific department. Here is a list of possible
departments: www.contact-sys.com/transfer/to.html
Sincerely,
Svetlana Semavina
GNU / Linuxcenter
(812) 309-06-86
(911) 005-42-54 03/19/2011
14:15, Ilya Murav'jov writes:
Message-ID: <4D870D5D.8000109@yandex.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4D87050C.2070708@linuxcenter.ru>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:33:33 +0300
From: Ilya Murav'jov
To: Svetlana Semavina
Subject: Re: contest "The best free project of Russia - 2010"
Svetlana Semavina writes:
Then to Bank Vozrozhdenie, ul. Pushkina, 2, bldg. 2
www.contact-sys.com/transfer/to/RUSSIAN%20FEDERATION/YAROSLAVL/16912.html
Ilya
The correspondence ends on March 21. Let me remind you that the contest ended in mid-December, and now it is mid-July.
Thanks to the attentive rikardoac , it turns out there is already an answer from the organizers and one of the sponsors .
Pavel Frolov, General Director of GNU / Linuxcenter (CJSC Mezon.Ru):
Konstantin Kochereshkin, PR-manager PingVin Software
I had the opportunity at the end of 2010 to participate in the aforementioned competition . We can only say positively about the very idea of the contest - after all, this is one of the few ways to show yourself and evaluate the Open Source movement in Russia as a whole. However, there is one problem.
An impressive prize, according to the organizers of the competition (“Linux Format” with the support of several companies), was not given to me as the runner-up in the “Individual Project” nomination. They did not give not only me, but also the author of GoldenDict, Isakov Konstantin, who took 1st place in the same nomination; and surely the rest of the winners of the “contest” will confirm the same. And given the fact that the organizers are no longer responding by mail, this means that there will be no money (I recall - the contest ended in mid-December 2010).
The point, of course, is not only money: the goal of this post is to inform other participants of the 2010 competition, as well as possible participants of the future contest "Best Free Project in Russia" -2011, that there was no reason and will not be involved . Even the diploma mentioned below in correspondence with one of the organizers can not wait.
Ilya Muravyov,
author of the Bombono DVD
PS program In order not to be unfounded, I quote below my correspondence with the organizers of the contest, out of as many as seven letters (the only contact person with me was Linux center employee Svetlana Semavina).
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Message-ID: <4D0A3EF7.7090004@linuxcenter.ru>
Date: Thu , 16 Dec 2010 19:31:51 +0300
From: Svetlana Semavina
To: mur ... @ yandex.ru
Subject: contest "The best free project of Russia - 2010"
Good afternoon, Ilya!
As you may have noticed, your project took 2nd place in the nomination
“Individual project” in the competition “Best Free Project of Russia - 2010”. Congratulations on behalf of the GNU / Linux Center and all the organizers!
We need to solve organizational issues:
1. We will be able to give your award to you by the end of February, when we collect all
contributions from sponsors. How do you best convey?
2. You will need to forward the diploma, for this you need an address with an index and a
full name of the recipient.
Sincerely,
Svetlana Semavina
GNU / Linuxcenter
(812) 309-06-86
(911) 005-42-54
Message-ID: <4D0A6AE7.2070203@yandex.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4D0A3EF7.7090004@linuxcenter.ru>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:39:19 +0300
From: Ilya Murav'jov
Subject: Re: contest "The best free project of Russia - 2010"
Svetlana Semavina writes:
Good afternoon, Ilya!
As you may have noticed, your project took 2nd place in the nomination
“Individual project” in the competition “Best Free Project of Russia - 2010”. Congratulations on behalf of the GNU / Linux Center and all the organizers!
Thanks, :)
We need to solve organizational issues:
1. We will be able to give your award to you by the end of February, when we collect all
contributions from sponsors. How do you best convey?
Transfer to my bank account (for example).
2. You will need to forward the diploma, for this you need an address with an index and a
full name of the recipient.
Address: Yaroslavl region, Yaroslavl, 150057, <...>
Full name: Ilya Alekseevich Muravyov
It would be nice to receive, in addition, a (nominal, beautiful) logo of the competition,
I would put it on the project website with a link to you: image
~ 120x70 in size and something like that.
Ilya Muravyov
Message-ID: <4D6ED7CB.5030107@yandex.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4D0A3EF7.7090004@linuxcenter.ru>
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 02:50:35 +0300
From: Ilya Murav'jov
To: Svetlana Semavina
Subject: Re: contest "The best free project of Russia - 2010"
Svetlana Semavina writes:
Good afternoon, Ilya!
As you may have noticed, your project took 2nd place in the nomination
“Individual project” in the competition “Best Free Project of Russia - 2010”. Congratulations on behalf of the GNU / Linux Center and all the organizers!
We need to solve organizational issues:
1. We will be able to give your award to you by the end of February, when we collect all
contributions from sponsors. How do you best convey?
2. You will need to forward the diploma, for this you need an address with an index and a
full name of the recipient.
Sincerely,
Svetlana Semavina
GNU / Linuxcenter
(812) 309-06-86
(911) 005-42-54
Hello Svetlana!
When can I get an award for 2nd place in the competition, and at the same time a diploma?
Sincerely,
Ilya Muravyov
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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:34:00 +0300
From: Svetlana Semavina
To: Ilya Murav'jov
Subject: Re: contest "The best free project of Russia - 2010"
Ilya, good afternoon!
while we have not all sponsors paid their part of the money, so the issuance of
cash prizes is slightly delayed. We will try to pay in late
March or early April.
And, it would be more convenient for us to send the award through - through the CONTACT system
or Blitz. And in that, and in another case, the money is obtained by passport in
a bank branch. Tell us how you prefer to get them!
List of bank branches working with CONTACT (you need to choose one
bank branch to receive money, money will be sent to
it): www.contact-sys.com/transfer/to.html
Blitz is any branch of Sberbank (here a specific bank branch
no need to choose).
Sincerely,
Svetlana Semavina
GNU / Linuxcenter
(812) 309-06-86
(911) 005-42-54
03.03.2011 02:50, Ilya Murav'jov writes:
Svetlana Semavina writes:Good afternoon, Ilya!
As you may have noticed, your project took 2nd place in the nomination
“Individual project” in the competition “Best Free Project of Russia - 2010”. Congratulations on behalf of the GNU / Linux Center and all the organizers!
We need to solve organizational issues:
1. We will be able to give your award to you by the end of February, when we collect all
contributions from sponsors. How do you best convey?
2. You will need to forward the diploma, for this you need an address with an index and a
full name of the recipient.
Sincerely,
Svetlana Semavina
GNU / Linuxcenter
(812) 309-06-86
(911) 005-42-54
Hello Svetlana!
When can I get an award for 2nd place in the competition, and at the same time a diploma?
Sincerely,
Ilya Muravyov
Message-ID: <4D849048.6000200@yandex.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4D7E2758.4070106@linuxcenter.ru>
Date: Sat, Mar 19, 2011 2:15:20 PM +0300
From: Ilya Murav'jov
To: Svetlana Semavina
Subject: Re: contest "The best free project of Russia - 2010"
Svetlana Semavina writes:
Ilya, good afternoon!
while we have not all sponsors paid their part of the money, so the issuance of
cash prizes is slightly delayed. We will try to pay in late
March or early April.
And, it would be more convenient for us to send the award through - through the CONTACT system
or Blitz. And in that, and in another case, the money is obtained by passport in
a bank branch. Tell us how you prefer to get them!
List of bank branches working with CONTACT (you need to select one
bank branch to receive money, money will be sent to
it): www.contact-sys.com/transfer/to.html
Blitz is any Sberbank branch (
select a specific bank branch here do not).
Respectfully,
Svetlana Semavina
GNU / Linuxcenter
(812) 309-06-86
(911) 005-42-54
Ok, let's get in touch. As I understand it,
my name is enough to send (but I can also send a photocopy of my passport to you):
Ilya Alekseevich
Muravyov Ilya Muravyev
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In-Reply -To: <4D849048.6000200@yandex.ru>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:58:04 +0300
From: Svetlana Semavina
To: Ilya Murav'jov
Subject: Re: contest "The best free project of Russia - 2010"
Ilya!
if through CONTACT, you still need to choose a bank branch convenient for you, as
money is sent to a specific department. Here is a list of possible
departments: www.contact-sys.com/transfer/to.html
Sincerely,
Svetlana Semavina
GNU / Linuxcenter
(812) 309-06-86
(911) 005-42-54 03/19/2011
14:15, Ilya Murav'jov writes:
Svetlana Semavina writes:Ilya, good afternoon!
while we have not all sponsors paid their part of the money, so the issuance of
cash prizes is slightly delayed. We will try to pay in late
March or early April.
And, it would be more convenient for us to send the award through - through the CONTACT system
or Blitz. And in that, and in another case, the money is obtained by passport in
a bank branch. Tell us how you prefer to get them!
List of bank branches working with CONTACT (you need to select one
bank branch to receive money, money will be sent to
it): www.contact-sys.com/transfer/to.html
Blitz is any Sberbank branch (
select a specific bank branch here do not).
Respectfully,
Svetlana Semavina
GNU / Linuxcenter
(812) 309-06-86
(911) 005-42-54
Ok, let's get in touch. As I understand it,
my name is enough to send (but I can also send a photocopy of my passport to you):
Ilya Alekseevich
Muravyov Ilya Muravyev
Message-ID: <4D870D5D.8000109@yandex.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4D87050C.2070708@linuxcenter.ru>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:33:33 +0300
From: Ilya Murav'jov
To: Svetlana Semavina
Subject: Re: contest "The best free project of Russia - 2010"
Svetlana Semavina writes:
Ilya!
if through CONTACT, you still need to choose a bank branch convenient for you, as
money is sent to a specific department. Here is a list of possible
departments: www.contact-sys.com/transfer/to.html
Then to Bank Vozrozhdenie, ul. Pushkina, 2, bldg. 2
www.contact-sys.com/transfer/to/RUSSIAN%20FEDERATION/YAROSLAVL/16912.html
Ilya
The correspondence ends on March 21. Let me remind you that the contest ended in mid-December, and now it is mid-July.
Thanks to the attentive rikardoac , it turns out there is already an answer from the organizers and one of the sponsors .
Pavel Frolov, General Director of GNU / Linuxcenter (CJSC Mezon.Ru):
The situation with the Autumn Marathon and the contest “Best Free Project of Russia 2010” is as follows. The payment to the finalists is on the schedule of our payments, but we had financial difficulties due to the fact that one of the sponsors of the contest refused to deposit money into the prize fund (because the person with whom we agreed on sponsorship quit and his colleagues refused to answer for it arrangements with us), and another one was introduced only partially, and the second part will be received by us only at the end of summer 2011.
According to the situation for today, we have not received more than half of the prize fund for paying prizes to the finalists of the competition, and so far we have not paid anything to any of the finalists in 2010. The only option I can solve this problem that I see is to cover the shortage from our own funds of the GNU / Linux Center, but we do not have free money now. Therefore, under good circumstances, we will pay compensation to all winners, including the winner of the Autumn Marathon until the end of summer, and if it is bad, until the end of 2011.
I am personally the first to blame for this situation. bad deal with sponsors.
- Sincerely, Pavel Frolov, General Director of GNU / Linuxcentra (ZAO "Meson.ru")
Konstantin Kochereshkin, PR-manager PingVin Software
Dear participants of the contest “Best Free Project of Russia 2010”. We were surprised to learn about the current situation. On December 28, 2010, Penguin Software Company transferred 300,000 rubles to the account of Mezon.Ru CJSC (GNU / Linux Center). T.O. All obligations of Penguin Software, as one of the sponsors of the event, have been fulfilled.
Sincerely, Konstantin Kochereshkin PingVin Software PR Manager