Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 21:44:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com> To: Michael Kenneth Henry <mhenry@black.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free Software Award Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909192141210.19489-100000@vnode.vmunix.com> In-Reply-To: <19990920012847.21FC014BB8@hub.freebsd.org>
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Would you post this to daily.daemonnews.org Chris Coleman Daemon News Editor in Chief http://www.daemonnews.org Bringing BSD together On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Michael Kenneth Henry wrote: > > Hi all, > > The Free Software Foundation is asking for nominations for > the 1999 Free Software Award. See http://www.gnu.org/award/award.html > for more info. > > I'm going to nominate Jordan Hubbard :) > > > Here's some of the info from the aforementioned page: > > Any kind of activity could be eligible--writing software, writing > documentation, publishing CDs, even journalism--but whatever the > activity, we want to recognize long-term central contributions to > the development of the world of free software. "Accord with the spirit" > means, for example, that software, manuals or collections of them > (on tape or CD) must be entirely free. (Once again, that's free as > in freedom; see our philosophy on selling free software) Work done > commercially is eligible, but we want to give awards to individuals, > not companies. > > Please send your nominations to award-nominations@gnu.org, on or > before October 8. Please put the name of the person you are nominating > in the message subject. > > Please include an explanation of the work the person has done and why > you think it is especially important--but no more than 40 lines long. > Also please state where to find the software which your nomination is > based on. > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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