FSF Award
The FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software has been awarded by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) since 1998 to people who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of free software .
The 1999 award was presented at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City , the 2000 award at the Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme in Paris, and the 2001-2004 award at the FOSDEM in Brussels . Since then, the award has been held during the annual meeting of FSF members in the United States .
Award winners
Larry Wall , 1998 |
Miguel de Icaza , 1999 |
Brian Paul , 2000 |
Guido van Rossum , 2001 |
Lawrence Lessig , 2002 |
Alan Cox , 2003 |
Theo de Raadt , 2004 |
Andrew Tridgell , 2005 |
Theodore Ts'o , 2006 |
Harald Welte , 2007 |
Wietse Venema , 2008 |
John Gilmore , 2009 |
Rob Savoye , 2010 |
Yukihiro Matsumoto , 2011 |
Werner Koch , 2015 |
- 1998 - Larry Wall , for developing a variety of free software, particularly Perl
- 1999 - Miguel de Icaza , for leading the Gnome project and thus promoting the mainstream distribution of Linux
- 2000 - Brian Paul , for his work on the Mesa 3D graphics library
- 2001 - Guido van Rossum , for developing Python
- 2002 - Lawrence Lessig , for promoting the importance of understanding the political dimension of free software
- 2003 - Alan Cox , for advocating free software, fighting the Digital Millennium Copyright Act , and contributing to the Linux kernel
- 2004 - Theo de Raadt , for founding the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects
- 2005 - Andrew Tridgell , for developing the Samba project and reverse engineering the BitKeeper protocol
- 2006 - Theodore Ts'o , for numerous contributions in kernel development and security, in particular the Kerberos protocol and ONC RPC
- 2007 - Harald Welte , for the legal enforcement of the GPL with the project gpl-violations.org ; also for technical contributions to Openmoko and other things
- 2008 - Wietse Zweize Venema , for extensive technical contributions to network security and writing Postfix
- 2009 - John Gilmore , for establishing free software in the business world long before GNU / Linux became popular, and for numerous code and funding contributions to free software
- 2010 - Rob Savoye , for over 20 years of work on free software such as GCC , GDB , DejaGnu , Newlib , Cygwin , eCos , various Linux distributions and the One laptop per child project , but especially for the development of the free flash player Gnash
- 2011 - Yukihiro Matsumoto , for developing Ruby and working on GNU and other free software for over 20 years
- 2012 - Fernando Pérez , for developing IPython
- 2013 - Matthew Garrett , for his work to keep Secure Boot compatible with free software
- 2014 - Sébastien Jodogne , for his free Orthanc medical imaging program
- 2015 - Werner Koch , for his contributions to GnuPG
- 2016 - Alexandre Oliva , for his contributions to the GNU project
- 2017 - Karen Sandler , Head of Software Freedom Conservancy
- 2018 - Deborah Nicholson , Community Director at Software Freedom Conservancy
- 2019 - Jim Meyering , programmer
Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit
In addition to the Award for the Advancement of Free Software , the FSF has been awarding the Award for Projects of Social Benefit every year since 2005 to free software projects that make significant contributions to society. Previous winners:
- 2005 - Wikipedia
- 2006 - Sahana , for volunteering to establish a comprehensive disaster management system
- 2007 - Groklaw , for building a rich source of legal and technical information for developers, lawyers, professors and historians
- 2008 - Creative Commons , for promoting creative and scientific works that can be freely distributed and edited, and for drawing attention to the dangers of restrictive copyrights
- 2009 - Internet Archive , for building a free and open Internet library, for archiving billions of websites and for making your own contributions to free software
- 2010 - Tor , for enabling free internet access and freedom of expression while protecting privacy, important for dissidents in Iran and Egypt
- 2011 - GNU Solidario , for GNU Health , a software project that helps improve the lives of the underprivileged
- 2012 - OpenMRS , a free software for documenting medical records
- 2013 - GNOME Foundation's Outreach Program for Women
- 2014 - ReGlue , a project that gives GNU / Linux-equipped computers to people in need in Austin
- 2015 - Library Freedom Project , a project u. a. to establish gate exits in libraries
- 2016 - SecureDrop , an anonymous whistleblower platform
- 2017 - Public Lab , a project to democratize science
- 2018 - OpenStreetMap , a project to create maps
- 2019 - Let's Encrypt , a project for the encryption of data streams
Web links
- FSF Award website until 2003 (English)
- FSF Award Website 2004 to 2007 (English)
- Award for Projects of Social Benefit Website (English)
- FSF announcement price for 2008 (English)
- FSF announcement price for 2009 (English)
- FSF announcement price for 2010 (English)
- FSF announcement price for 2011 (English)
- FSF announcement price for 2012 (English)
- FSF announcement price for 2013 (English)
- FSF announcement price for 2014 (English)
- FSF announcement price for 2015 (English)
- FSF announcement price for 2016 (English)
- FSF announcement price for 2017 (English)
- FSF announcement price for 2018 (English)
- FSF announcement price for 2019 (English)