The Prestigious Free Software Award Goes to Karen Sandler (sfconservancy.org)

Each year the Free Software award goes to someone making "a great contribution to the progress and development of free software, through activities that accord with the spirit of free software." This year's winner is a former executive of the GNOME Foundation, Karen Sandler. Jeremy Allison - Sam, Slashdot reader #8,157, brought this announcement. Richard Stallman, President of the FSF, presented Sandler with the award during a ceremony. Stallman highlighted Sandler's dedication to software freedom. Stallman told the crowd that Sandler's "vivid warning about backdoored nonfree software in implanted medical devices has brought the issue home to people who never wrote a line of code. Her efforts, usually not in the public eye, to provide pro bono legal advice to free software organizations and [with Software Freedom Conservancy] to organize infrastructure for free software projects and copyleft defense, have been equally helpful."

In her acceptance speech, Sandler spoke about her dedication to free software as a patient, advocate and professional. "Coming to terms with a dangerous heart condition should never have cost me fundamental control over the technology that my life relies on", said Sandler... "This issue is personal not just for me but for anyone who relies on software, and today that means every single person."

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Karen Sandler is an SJW who almost destroyed GNOME

[Anonymous Coward]

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRe...

https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/201...

https://voxday.blogspot.co.uk/...

Re:Who and what?

[Anonymous Coward]

She is the one who bankupted the Gnome foundation with advocacy programs.

Re:Karen Sandler is an SJW who almost destroyed GN

[AmiMoJo]

For one month there was an issue where paying interns was scheduled to happen before sponsors paid the foundation, and because the programme was growing quickly there was a temporary shortfall. It was resolved quickly and without drama.

This was at the height of the anti-SJW movement. Vox Day wrote some nonsense about it (your third link), others reposted (your second link is just a Day repost) and the narrative that the Outreachy programme was destroying GNOME became fake news.