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FSF: 2019 Free Software Awards

([Briefs] Mar 16, 2020 15:42 UTC (Mon) (ris))


The Free Software Foundation has [1]announced the recipients of the 2019 Free Software Awards. A new category was added this year; the [2]Award for Outstanding New Free Software Contributor went to Clarissa Lima Borges, " a talented young Brazilian software engineering student whose Outreachy internship work focused on usability testing for various GNOME applications ". The [3]Project of social benefit award went to Let's Encrypt, and the [4]Award for the Advancement of Free Software was given to Jim Meyering, " a prolific free software programmer, maintainer, and writer ".



[1] https://www.fsf.org/news/lets-encrypt-jim-meyering-and-clarissa-lima-borges-receive-fsfs-2019-free-software-awards

[2] https://www.fsf.org/awards/onfsc-award

[3] https://www.fsf.org/awards/sb-award/

[4] https://www.fsf.org/awards/fs-award

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