Title: Nominate Bitcoin for the FSF 15th Annual Free Software Awards Post by: sebicas on October 19, 2012, 02:47:39 AM The Free Software Foundation, just opened the 15th Annual Free Software Awards
http://www.fsf.org/news/the-free-software-foundation-opens-nominations-for-the-15th-annual-free-software-awards There are two categories: - Award for Advancement of Free Software[/li][/list] - Award for Projects of Social Benefit[/li][/list] Previous winners are: Award for Projects of Social Benefit: 2011 GNU Health 2010 Tor 2009 Internet Archive 2008 Creative Commons 2007 Groklaw 2006 Sahana Disaster Management System 2005 Wikipedia Award for Advancement of Free Software 2011 Yukihiro Matsumoto 2010 Rob Savoye 2009 John Gilmore 2008 Wietse Venema 2007 Harald Welte 2006 Ted Ts'o 2005 Andrew Tridgell 2004 Theo de Raadt 2003 Alan Cox 2002 Lawrence Lessig 2001 Guido van Rossum 2000 Brian Paul 1999 Miguel de Icaza 1998 Larry Wall I just nominated Bitcoin for the Projects of Social Benefit Award, so If you, like me, think Bitcoin should be nominated for the Award. [UPDATE] Instructions of how to Nominate Please send your nominations to award-nominations@gnu.org, on or before Thursday, November 15th, 2012. Please submit nominations in the following format: 1) In the email message subject line, either put the name of the person you are nominating for the Award for Advancement of Free Software, or put the name of the project for the Award for Projects of Social Benefit. 2) Please include, in the body of your message, an explanation (40 lines or less) of the work done and why you think it is especially important to the advancement of software freedom or how it benefits society, respectively. 3) Please state, in the body of your message, where to find the materials (e.g., software, manuals, or writing) which your nomination is based on. Good luck Bitcoin! Title: Re: Nominate Bitcoin for the FSF 15th Annual Free Software Awards Post by: Atlas on October 19, 2012, 02:51:10 AM Nominate Satoshi Nakamoto for The Award for Advancement of Free Software. He created Bitcoin in the first place.
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