[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [FSF] Call for nominations for the 13th Annual Free Software Awards

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

FYI - In case anyone wants to nominate their favourite OSGeo project or contributor...  

Tyler

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> From: John Sullivan <info at fsf.org>
> Date: February 2, 2011 11:01:01 AM PST
> To: info-fsf at fsf.org, info-press at fsf.org
> Subject: [FSF] Call for nominations for the 13th Annual Free Software Awards
> Reply-To: info at 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-nominations at 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-nominations at 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
> 
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