FYI - In case anyone wants to nominate their favourite OSGeo project or contributor...
Tyler Begin forwarded message: > From: John Sullivan <i...@fsf.org> > Date: February 2, 2011 11:01:01 AM PST > To: info-...@fsf.org, info-pr...@fsf.org > Subject: [FSF] Call for nominations for the 13th Annual Free Software Awards > Reply-To: i...@fsf.org > > BOSTON, February 2, 2011--The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNU > Project today announced the opening of nominations for the 13th annual > Free Software Awards. > > Please send your nominations to <award-nominati...@gnu.org>, on or > before Wednesday, 16 February 2011. > > ### Award for the Advancement of Free Software > > The Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software > is presented annually by FSF president Richard Stallman to an individual > who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of > free software, through activities that accord with the spirit of free > software. > > Last year, John Gilmore was recognized with the Award for the > Advancement of Free Software for his contributions to network security. > Gilmore joined a prestigious list of previous winners including Wietse > Venema, Harald Welte, Ted Ts'o, Andrew Tridgell, Theo de Raadt, Alan > Cox, Larry Lessig, Guido van Rossum, Brian Paul, Miguel de Icaza and > Larry Wall. > > ### Award for Projects of Social Benefit > > Nominations are also open for the 2010 Award for Projects of Social > Benefit. The Social Benefit award recognizes a project that > intentionally and significantly benefits society through collaboration > to accomplish an important social task. > > Last year, The Internet Archive received this award, in recognition of > its work to foster a growing body of creative, educational and > scientific works that can be shared and built upon by others, and to > raise awareness of the harm inflicted by increasingly restrictive > copyright regimes. > > Previous winners have included Creative Commons, Groklaw, the Sahana > project, and Wikipedia. > > ### Eligibility > > In the case of both awards, previous winners are not eligible for > nomination, but renomination of other previous nominees is encouraged. > Only individuals are eligible for nomination for the Advancement of Free > Software Award (not projects), and only projects can be nominated for > the Social Benefit Award (not individuals). > > The award committee has not been finalized, but the last year's award > committee was composed of: Suresh Ramasubramanian (Chair), Peter H. > Salus, Raj Mathur, Hong Feng, Andrew Tridgell, Jonas Oberg, Verner > Vinge, Richard Stallman, and Fernanda G. Weiden. > > Please send your nominations to <award-nominati...@gnu.org>, on or > before Wednesday, 16 February 2011. Please submit nominations in the > following format: > > * In the email message subject line, either put the name of the person > you are nominating for the Award for Advancement of Free Software, > or put the name of the project for the Award for Projects of Social > Benefit. > > * Please include, in the body of your message, an explanation (40 > lines or less) of the work done and why you think it is especially > important to the advancement of software freedom or how it benefits > society, respectively. > > * Please state, in the body of your message, where to find the > materials (e.g., software, manuals, or writing) which your > nomination is based on. > > Information about the previous awards can be found at > <http://www.fsf.org/awards>. Winners will be announced at an awards > ceremony at the LibrePlanet 2011 conference[1] on March 19th, 2011, in > Boston. > > [1] http://libreplanet.org > > info-fsf mailing list > info-...@fsf.org > Unsubscribe: http://lists.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/info-fsf
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