Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit
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The Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit was announced in October 2005 to be an annual award granted by Free Software Foundation (FSF). The announcement said:
- "This award is presented to the project or team responsible for applying free software, or the ideas of the free software movement, in a project that intentionally and significantly benefits society in other aspects of life."
According to Richard Stallman, President of FSF, the award was inspired by the Sahana project which was developed, and was used, for organising the transfer of aid to tsunami victims in Sri Lanka after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. The developers indicated that they hope to adapt it to aid for other future disasters. [1]
This is the second annual award created by FSF. The first was the Award for the Advancement of Free Software (AAFS).
It has not yet been announced where or when the award ceremony will be. Since 2001, the Advancement of Free Software award has been announced at the FOSDEM conference, in February of each year, so this new award may also have it's ceremony there.
The award committee has been announced as Peter H. Salus, Richard Stallman, Alan Cox (AAFS winner 2003), Lawrence Lessig (AAFS winner 2002), Guido van Rossum (AAFS winner 2001), Frederic Couchet, Jonas Oberg, Hong Feng, Bruce Perens, Raju Mathur, Suresh Ramasubramanian, Enrique A. Chaparro, Ian Murdock, and Vernor Vinge.
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