a ver si me nominan ;) ;) ----- Forwarded message from Matt Lee <[email protected]> -----
> Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:47:07 -0400 > From: Matt Lee <[email protected]> > To: Nicolas Reynolds <[email protected]> > Subject: Nominations are open for the 14th annual Free Software awards > > BOSTON, October 4, 2011 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the > GNU Project today announced the opening of nominations for the 14th > annual Free Software Awards. > > ### 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, Rob Savoye was recognized with the Award for the > Advancement of Free Software for his contributions to compiler and > testing tools, and his leadership of the GNU Gnash project, a > fully-free replacement for Adobe Flash. Savoye joined a prestigious > list of previous winners including John Gilmore, 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 2011 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 Tor Project received this award, in recognition of its > work to fight against surveillance inflicted by increasingly > restrictive governments and to improve the safety and wellbeing of all > Internet citizens. > > Previous winners have included the Internet Archive, 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 is made up of previous > winners, free software activists and FSF president, Richard Stallman. > > Please send your nominations to <[email protected]>, on or > before Monday, November 7th, 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 recognized at an awards > ceremony at the LibrePlanet conference tentatively scheduled for March > 2012, in Boston, Massachusetts. > > > -- > Follow us on identi.ca at http://identi.ca/fsf | Subscribe to our blogs via > RSS at http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS > Join us as an associate member at http://www.fsf.org/jf > > Sent from the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street > Fifth Floor > Boston, MA 02110-1335 > United States > > > You can unsubscribe to this mailing list by visiting the link > http://crm.fsf.org/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe&reset=1&jid=125276&qid=620863&h=8f08c451349c235b. > > *To never receive email from the Free Software Foundation, including > Defective by Design, > our monthly newsletter and more, click this link:* > > http://crm.fsf.org/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/optout&reset=1&jid=125276&qid=620863&h=8f08c451349c235b ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Salud! Nicolás Reynolds, xmpp:[email protected] omb:http://identi.ca/fauno OTR: C0CB1F0F 01DB5E18 2D634C2A A4626858 E7C7C3A2 http://parabolagnulinux.org http://endefensadelsl.org "Freedom [...] is messy" ~ Eben Moglen
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