I got the award thing wrong. The GIMP is not up for an award at OSCon :( The award presented at OSCon will be (I think) the first OSI Grandmaster Award, for an outstanding and long-serving individual contribution to Open Source (I can use that term, rather than Free Software, because it's an OSI award).

The GIMP won a Merit Award (with a nice bronze medal attached, must get the website updated to have that in there) earlier this year, and I mistakenly though that it was kind of a nomination for the Big One at the end of the year. Sorry John!