The Electronic Frontier Foundation has recently established Barlow awards for people, or groups who "contributed substantially to the health, growth, accessibility, or freedom of computer-based communications. The contribution may be technical, social, economic, or cultural."
I think, at the very least, Guix distro frees admins from users and users from admins :), so maybe the Guix project could self-nominate . Just to raise the awareness a bit. Here's the link, https://www.eff.org/nominate-2019-pioneer Cheers, Todor