At the LibreplaNet 2021 conference, which, as and last year, was conducted online, a virtual award ceremony was held on which announced laureates of the annual award” Free Software Awards 2020 “, established by the Free PO Foundation (FSF) and awarded to people who made the most significant contribution to the development of free software, as well as socially significant free projects. Press at the ceremony Memorable plates and letters were sent to the winners by mail (the FSF premium does not imply money remuneration ).
Prize for the promotion and development of free software received Bradleli kun ( Bradley M. Kuhn ), executive director and one Of the creators of the human rights organization Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). Bralli is known for its activities on the need to comply with GPL, identifying GPL violations and legal coercion to fulfill the requirements of GPL.
In the nomination, given by projects, which brought significant benefits to society and contributed to the solution of important social tasks, the award was awarded the project civiCRM , developing open platform to managing public and non-commercial orgranisats, as well as volunteer communities. The project is developing as a free alternative to commercial CRM, optimized for organizing interaction with the participants involved in the work and planning the work of non-profit organizations. The code is written in PHP, comes in the form of modules for Drupal, Joomla, Backdrop and WordPress, and extends under the AgPlv3 license.
In the nomination for the outstanding contribution of a new participant in the development of free software, which is awarded to beginners, the first contribution of which showed a prominent commitment to the movement of free software, Alisa Rosenzweig received a prize ( Alyssa Rosenzweig ) from COLLABORA, developing a free Panfrost driver for GPU Mali based on Midgard and Bifrost microarchitectures, and also involved in the operation on the reverse initiation of the GPU Apple M1.
List past winners :
- 2019 Jim Meyering, since 1991 he has been maintained by the GNU Coreutils package, one from the main developers of Autotools and the Creator GNULIB.
- 2018 Deborah Nicholson, director of interaction with the community in the organization Software Freedom Conservancy;