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FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the free-as-in-freedom dept.

bkuhn writes "The FSF has posted a a call for nominations for the 2002 FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software. Get your nominations in to <award-nominations@gnu.org> by 15 October 2002."

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  1. Valgrind by Otter · · Score: 4, Interesting
    This seems to be more a lifetime award than a "Year's Best" but since discussing what the year's biggest contribution should be is a lot more productive and less flame-y:

    I'm going to nominate Valgrind. It's going to greatly improve the performance of Linux software across the board, and puts professional grade profiling in the hands of every MP3 playlist coder on Freshmeat.

    What else? Nothing much happened this year. I'd suggest the Mono developers who seem to have accomplished a lot, but won't because I haven't tried it myself and because it's not especially relevant yet (if ever). Mozilla got a lot better, but they did so much bragging up front I'm not inclined to puff them up again now that they've finally accomplished something.

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  2. Obvious Choice by PaddyM · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Peruvian Congressman:
    David Villanueva Nuñez

  3. Itojun should get it by 0-9a-zA-Z_.+!*'()123 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    He has commit access to three bsd's and is a tireless advocate/worker on ipv6 for them.

    He posts regularly to users@ipv6.org and other
    forums.

    In terms of advancing free software outside of the US (where ipv6 adoption is still emerging), this is pretty important. You aren't going to run free software if it can't network properly.

    He has also worked on Magic Point and other free software projects.

    www.itojun.org