[FSF] The 2008 Free Software Awards -- have your say!

[Matt Lee]

As an associate member, we'd love to hear your ideas for
nominations.

We have two annual awards.

Award for the Advancement of Free Software
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The Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of
Free Software is presented annually by Richard Stallman to a
person 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, Harald Welte was awarded the Award for the
Advancement of Free Software in recognition for his
contributions to the Linux kernel and the OpenMoko mobile
platform project, and his community leadership in
safeguarding the freedom of free software users by
successfully enforcing the GNU General Public License
through the gpl-violations.org project.

Welte joined a prestigious list of previous winners
including Ted Ts'o, Andrew Tridgell, Theo de Raadt, Alan
Cox, Lawrence Lessig, Guido van Rossum, Brian Paul, Miguel
de Icaza and Larry Wall.

Award for Projects of Social Benefit
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Nominations are also open for the 2008 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.

The previous winners of the Award for Projects of Social
Benefit were Groklaw, in 2007, Sahana project in 2006, and
Wikipedia, in 2005.

Join the discussion!
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Our associate members forum is the place to discuss your
ideas for these awards. The forum is limited to associate
members, like yourself.

* <http://www.fsf.org/associate/forum/general/311228771257/>

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