I'm not sure who's been moderating these press releases style posts through to the group, but I think we need to be pickier about what we let through. Even if it's for a good cause - which this clearly could be - it's not topically relevant to most of the list.
And if it were shared by an active list participant with a bit of coworking context (coworking open source software, perhaps) it'd be another story. In the mean time - let's try to tighten this up and keep the list a happy and productive place to talk about coworking! :) -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Tawni Aaron <[email protected]> wrote: > Nominations Open for Nation’s Top Honor in Public Interest Computing > > Tides Pizzigati Prize will award $10,000 to an open source > software developer whose work is helping nonprofits succeed > > San Francisco, Calif. > September 12, 2011 – Nominations have now opened for the sixth annual > Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest, the > nation’s highest honor for software developers working with nonprofits > to help advance innovative social change. > Tides is now accepting nominations for this year’s $10,000 prize > through October 31. The 2012 winner will be announced in April at the > Nonprofit Technology Network annual conference in San Francisco. > Each year, starting in 2006, the Pizzigati Prize has accepted > nominations for talented and creative individuals who develop open > source software products that demonstrate impressive value to the > nonprofit sector. Tides welcomes nominations from both developers and > the nonprofits who work with them. > The most recent Pizzigati Prize winner, Ken Banks, created software > that speaks directly to the reality that millions of people globally > have only simple mobile phones and no access whatsoever to the > Internet. The software Banks has developed turns mobile phones into > grassroots organizing tools for everything from mobilizing young > voters to thwarting thieving commodity traders. > The 2010 Pizzigati Prize winner, Yaw Anokwa, led the development on > Open Data Kit, a modular set of tools that's helping nonprofits the > world over on a wide variety of battlefronts, from struggles to > prevent deforestation, to campaigns against human rights violations. > “Software developers like these fill an indispensable role,” explains > Tides chief of staff Joseph Mouzon, a Pizzigati Prize judge and the > former executive director of nonprofit services for the Groundspring > Network for Good. “The Pizzigati Prize aims to honor that contribution > — and encourage programmers to engage their talents in the ongoing > struggle for social change.” > The Pizzigati Prize honors the brief life of Tony Pizzigati, an early > advocate of open source computing. Born in 1971, Tony spent his > college years at MIT, where he worked at the world-famous MIT Media > Lab. Tony died in 1995, in an auto accident on his way to work in > Silicon Valley. . > Full details on the Pizzigati Prize, the largest annual award in > public interest computing, appear online at www.pizzigatiprize.org. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
