Peter Soetens of The SourceWorks has won the Willow Garage Open Source Achievement Award for 'developing Orocos RTT into a broadly used framework for real-time control'.

It's the first time that Willow Garage awards persons for their contribution to Open Source Robotics. Peter Soetens has a long tradition in developing software under Free licenses, with contributions as early as 1999. In 2001, he started programming on the Orocos project at the University of Leuven. This award acknowledges the importance of this work, which has now matured into a practical and powerful platform for real-time applications.