Award for Outstanding New Free Software Contributor
The Award for Outstanding New Free Software Contributor will be presented annually to an individual newcomer to the community who has demonstrated an outstanding dedication to software freedom. The 2020 winner of the award was announced at LibrePlanet 2021. This year's winner will be announced at LibrePlanet 2022. Nominations for this year's award are now closed.
Watch the acceptance speech from the first award winner Clarissa Lima Borges at LibrePlanet 2020
The 2020 award was received by Alyssa Rosenzweig, a free software hacker who leads the Panfrost project to reverse engineer and provide free firmware for the Mali series of GPUs. Presenting the award was Richard Stallman, founder of both the Free Software Foundation and the GNU project.
Their contributions may have included things like: empowering the community by organizing local meetups, software development, becoming involved in the strategic or logistical planning of a project, working on documentation, or helping to make improvements in the environment to attract and keep contributors.
Individuals who describe their projects as "open" instead of "free" are eligible nonetheless, provided the software is in fact free/libre.
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Free Software Awards winners announced: CiviCRM, Bradley Kuhn, and Alyssa Rosenzweig
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Mar 20, 2021 07:05 PM |
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Free Software Awards: Recognize those who advance our freedom by October 28th
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Sep 03, 2020 03:25 PM |
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Let's Encrypt, Jim Meyering, and Clarissa Lima Borges receive FSF's 2019 Free Software Awards
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Mar 14, 2020 08:55 PM |
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Free Software Awards: Nominate those who inspire you by November 6th
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Sep 25, 2019 12:50 PM |