Free Software Awards: Choose your nominations by March 5
Quoting: Free Software Awards: Choose your nominations by March 5 —
There's no better way to show a member of the free software community that you appreciate their efforts than by nominating them for a Free Software Award. Whether you're new to the free software community or have been around since the beginning, we ask you to take the time to show your appreciation for a particular member or project's commitment to software freedom. By nominating someone, you send the message that you appreciate their vital work.
Update
In FOSSForce:
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FSF Announces that Nominations Are Open for This Year’s Free Software Awards
Nomination are being accepted until March 5 at 11:59 EST, or a minute before the stroke of midnight. If you’re not connected with FSF and you’re wondering if you can nominate someone anyway, you absolutely can.
“Anyone can nominate,” Greg Farough, the FSF’s Campaigns Manager told FOSS Force. “You do not have to be an FSF associate member to nominate. You do not even have to have an account on our website; we want everyone in the free software community to participate, so we open this as wide as possible.”
Some very late coverage:
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FSF Opens Nominations For Free Software Awards
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced that nominations are open for this year's Free Software Awards. These prestigious awards demonstrate appreciation of the efforts of members of the free software community and anybody can make a nomination.
The FSF is a non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman in 1985. It advocates free software, preferably distributed under copyleft terms, such as with its own GNU General Public License.
Each year since 1998 FSF has awarded prizes for Free Software in three categories, for advancing free software, outstanding new contributor, and project of social benefit. Previous winners include Karen Sandler in 2017, the Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy; Matthew Garrett in 2014, for his work to keep “Secure Boot” compatible with open source; and Deborah Nicholson in 2018, for her advocacy for political information, freedom of speech and assembly, and civil liberties.
Now an extension (a month later):
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Free Software Awards: There's still time to submit your nomination
Maybe you've been inspired by the work of a specific member of the free software community, or impressed by a project that made great strides to incorporate free software into its platform for social change. There's been so much great effort put into the free software movement over the past year, and now we would like to invite you to take a moment to acknowledge these endeavors by nominating individuals and projects for an award in one of three categories: [...]