During the LibrePlanet 2021 conference, that like last year took place online, hosted the virtual awards ceremony, in which the winners of the «Annual Free Software Awards 2020 Award», established by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), were announced and awarded to people who have the most significant contribution to Software of free development, as well as socially significant free projects.
Commemorative plaques and certificates awarded at the ceremony they were mailed to the winners (the FSF prize does not involve any monetary reward).
The Free Software Promotion and Development Award went to Bradley M. Kuhn, CEO and Co-Founder of the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). Bradley is known for his efforts to persuade people to comply with the GPL, identify violations of the GPL, and legally enforce the requirements of the GPL.
In the nomination granted to projects that have brought significant benefits to society and contributed to solving important social problems, the award was given to the CiviCRM project, which develops an open platform for the management of public and non-profit organizations, as well as volunteer communities.
The project is being developed as a free alternative to commercial CRM, optimized to organize the interaction with the participants involved and to plan the work of the employees of non-profit organizations. The code is written in PHP, comes in the form of modules for Drupal, Joomla, Backdrop, and WordPress, and is AGPLv3 licensed.
Nomination for Outstanding Contribution from a New Entrant in free software development, which is awarded to newbies, the first contribution that has shown significant commitment to the free software movement, the award Alice Rosenzweig received (Alyssa Rosenzweig) from Collabora, developed a free Panfrost driver for the Midgard and Bifrost GPU Mali microarchitecture, and also participated in the work on the reverse Apple M1 GPU.
List of previous winners:
- 2019 Jim Meyering, maintainer of the GNU Coreutils package since 1991, one of the leading autotools developers and creator of Gnulib.
- 2018 Deborah Nicholson, director of community engagement at the Software Freedom Conservancy.
- 2017Karen Sandler, director of the Software Freedom Conservancy.
- 2016 Alexandre Oliva, Brazilian popularizer and developer of free software, founder of the Foundation. Latinoamericana de Software Libre, author of the Linux-Libre project (completely free version of the Linux kernel).
- 2015 Werner Koch, creator and lead developer of the GnuPG Toolkit (GNU Privacy Guard).
- 2014 Sebastien Jodogne, Author of Orthanc, a free DICOM server for accessing CT data.
- 2013 Matthew Garrett, a co-developer of the Linux kernel and a member of the technical council of the Linux Foundation, has made significant contributions to making Linux bootable on systems with UEFI Secure Boot.
- 2012 Fernando Perez, Author of IPython, an interactive shell for Python.
- 2011 Yukihiro Matsumoto, author of the Ruby programming language. Yukihiro has been involved in the development of GNU, Ruby, and other open source projects for 20 years.
- 2010Rob Savoye, Gnash free Flash player project leader, contributor to GCC, GDB, DejaGnu, Newlib, Libgloss, Cygwin, eCos, Expect, founder of Open Media Now.
- 2009 John Gilmore, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, creator of the legendary Cypherpunks mailing list and hierarchy of alt conferences. * Usenet. Founder of Cygnus Solutions, the first to provide commercial support for free software solutions. Founder of the free projects Cygwin, GNU Radio, Gnash, GNU tar, GNU UUCP and FreeS / WAN.
- 2008 Wietse Venema (Renowned IT security expert, creator of popular projects like Postfix, TCP Wrapper, SATAN, and The Coroner's Toolkit).
- 2007 Harald Welt (architect of the OpenMoko mobile platform, one of the top 5 netfilter / iptables developers, maintainer of the Linux kernel packet filtering subsystem, activist of the free software movement, creator of gpl-violations.org).
- 2006 Theodore T'so (Kerberos v5, ext2 / ext3 filesystem developer, well-known Linux kernel hacker, and member of the group that developed the IPSEC specification).
- 2005 Andrew Tridgell (creator of the samba and rsync projects).
Source: https://www.fsf.org/