Halalan, one of the organization’s software projects, has bagged the prize of “Best plans for FOSS (free and open source software) deployment project on new server for community benefit” category in the Software Freedom Day 2006 celebration. This is old news already since we have been informed weeks before of our victory and they even posted it on their website but we we felt that we should wait for our prize to arrive.

And now you see this post because the powerful IBM server is finally here! With a Quad Four processor the market price for one server like it is close to half a million pesos! We are definitely having our online voting system, Halalan, on a first-class hosting.

Read more of about it on the news here.