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2011 Free Software Awards Announced Entrar Help! Members forum about campaigns licensing membership resources community donate shop 2011 Free Software Awards announced por Matt Lee — Published on 26/03/2012 12:41 Search BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Monday, March 26th, 2012 — Free Software Foundation president Richard M. Stallman announced the winners of the FSF's annual free software awards at a ceremony on Sunday, March 25th, held during the LibrePlanet 2012 conference at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Sign up The Award for the Advancement of Free Software is given annually to an individual who has made a great contribution to Enter your email address to the progress and development of free software, through activities that accord with the spirit of free software. receive our monthly newsletter, This year, it was given to Yukihiro Matsumoto (aka Matz), the the creator of the Ruby programming language. Matz has worked on GNU, Ruby, and other free software for over 20 years. He Free Software Supporter accepted the award in person and spoke at the conference on his early experiences with free software, especially the influence of GNU Emacs on Ruby. Yukihiro Matsumoto joins a distinguished list of previous Subscribe me winners: 2010 Rob Savoye 2009 John Gilmore Últimas noticias 2008 Wietse Venema Free Software Foundation 2007 Harald Welte announces freedom-respecting 2006 Ted Ts'o videoconferencing for its associate members 2005 Andrew Tridgell 28/05/2020 2004 Theo de Raadt 2003 Alan Cox Free Software Foundation targets 2002 Lawrence Lessig Microsoft's smart assistant in new Yukihiro Matsumoto and Richard Stallman. 2001 Guido van Rossum campaign 01/04/2020 2000 Brian Paul 1999 Miguel de Icaza Let's Encrypt, Jim Meyering, and 1998 Larry Wall Clarissa Lima Borges receive FSF's 2019 Free Software Awards The Award for Projects of Social Benefit is presented to the project or team responsible for applying free software, or the 14/03/2020 ideas of the free software movement, in a project that intentionally and significantly benefits society in other aspects of life. This award stresses the use of free software in the service of humanity. Más noticias… This year, the award went to GNU Health, a free software project that works with health professionals around the world to improve Recent blogs the lives of the underprivileged. GNU Health has been adopted as the Health and Hospital Information System of choice by the What's new in the GNU Press Shop United Nations University. Luis Falcon, the president of GNU Solidario (the organization behind GNU Health), was present to GNU Emacs T-shirts available now accept the award on behalf of the project. at the GNU Press Shop GNU Health joins an impressive list of previous winners: 2010 Tor New LibrePlanet 2019 tees: explore new frontiers of free software 2009 Internet Archive 2008 Creative Commons Support software freedom: Shop the 2007 Groklaw GNU Press 2006 Sahana Disaster Management System Más… 2005 Wikipedia Luis Falcon and Richard Stallman. This year's award committee was: Suresh Ramasubramanian, Peter H. Salus, Wietse Venema, Raj Mathur, Hong Feng, Andrew Tridgell, Jonas Oberg, Vernor Vinge, Richard Stallman, Fernanda G. Weiden, Harald Welte, and Rob Savoye. About the Free Software Foundation The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software -- particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants -- and free documentation for free software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of software, and its Web sites, located at fsf.org and gnu.org, are an important source of information about GNU/Linux. Donations to support the FSF's work can be made at http://donate.fsf.org. Its headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA. 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