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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: Image File history File links Portal. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit corporation founded in October 1985 by Richard Stallman to support the free software movement (free as in freedom), and in particular the GNU project. ...

"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] Richard Matthew Stallman (nickname RMS) (born March 16, 1953) is an acclaimed software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Sahana FOSS Disaster Management System. ... Tsunami strikes Ao Nang, Thailand. ...

This is the second annual award created by FSF. The first was the Award for the Advancement of Free Software (AAFS). The Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software is annually presented to a person who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software, through activities that accord with the spirit of free software. ...

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. 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jimbo Wales speaking at FOSDEM 2005 Since 2001, the Free and Open source Software Developers European Meeting (commonly known as FOSDEM) is an annual 2-day event hosting talks, tutorials, and stalls for the free software community. ...

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. Peter H. Salus is a linguist, computer scientist, historian of technology, author and editor of books on computing. ... Richard Matthew Stallman (nickname RMS) (born March 16, 1953) is an acclaimed software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer. ... Alan Cox, wearing a red hat, with two Gentoo users at the LinuxWorld Expo 2005 Alan Cox (born 1968) is a computer programmer heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel since its early days (1991). ... Note: This article title may be easily confused with Lawrence Lessing. ... Guido van Rossum Guido van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. ... Bruce Perens is a prominent figure in the open source movement and to some extent in the free software movement. ... Ian Murdock is the founder of the Debian project and the commercial Progeny Debian distribution. ... Vernor Steffen Vinge (IPA: ) (born February 10, 1944) is a mathematician, computer scientist and science fiction author who is best known for his Hugo award-winning novels A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky, as well as for his 1993 essay The Technological Singularity, in which...

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• The announcement of this award
• Information about previous FSF awards ceremonies