FSF Free Software Awards
The Free Software Foundation grants two annual awards. Since 1998, FSF has granted the award for Advancement of Free Software and since 2005, also the Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit.
Presentation ceremonies
In 1999 the award for Advancement of Free Software was presented at the Jacob Javits Center European Meeting. Since 2006, the awards have been presented at the FSF's annual members meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Advancement of Free Software award
The Advancement of Free Software award is annually presented by the Free Software Foundation to a person whom it deems to have made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software, through activities that accord with the spirit of free software.Winners
Source:Larry Wall, 1998 | Miguel de Icaza, 1999 |
Brian Paul, 2000 | Guido van Rossum, 2001 |
Lawrence Lessig, 2002 | Alan Cox, 2003 |
Theo de Raadt, 2004 | Andrew Tridgell, 2005 |
Theodore Ts'o, 2006 | Harald Welte, 2007 |
Wietse Venema, 2008 | John Gilmore, 2009 |
Rob Savoye, 2010 | Yukihiro Matsumoto, 2011 |
| Fernando Pérez, 2012 | Matthew Garrett, 2013 |
| Sébastien Jodogne, 2014 | Werner Koch, 2015 |
| Alexandre Oliva, 2016 | Karen Sandler, 2017 |
| Deborah Nicholson, 2018 | Jim Meyering, 2019 |
| Bradley M. Kuhn, 2020 | Paul Eggert, 2021 |
;1998 Larry Wall
;1999 Miguel de Icaza
;2000 Brian Paul
;2001 Guido van Rossum
;2002 Lawrence Lessig
;2003 Alan Cox
;2004 Theo de Raadt
;2005 Andrew Tridgell
;2006 Theodore Ts'o
;2007 Harald Welte
;2008 Wietse Venema
;2009 John Gilmore
;2010 Rob Savoye
;2011 Yukihiro Matsumoto
;2012 Fernando Pérez
;2013 Matthew Garrett
;2014 Sébastien Jodogne
;2015 Werner Koch
;2016 Alexandre Oliva
;2017 Karen Sandler
;2018 Deborah Nicholson
;2019 Jim Meyering
;2020 Bradley M. Kuhn
;2021 Paul Eggert
;2022 Eli Zaretskii
;2023 Bruno Haible
;2024 Andy Wingo
Social benefit award
Source:The Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit is an annual award granted by the Free Software Foundation. In announcing the award, the FSF explained that:
According to Richard Stallman, former 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 in other future disasters.
This is the second annual award created by the FSF. The first was the Award for the Advancement of Free Software.
Winners
The award was first awarded in 2005, and the recipients have been:;2005 Wikipedia
;2006 The Sahana FOSS Disaster Management System
;2007 Groklaw
;2008 Creative Commons
;2009 Internet Archive
;2010 Tor
;2011 GNU Health
;2012 OpenMRS
;2013 GNOME Foundation's Outreach Program for Women
;2014 Reglue
;2015 Library Freedom Project
;2016 SecureDrop
;2017 Public Lab
;2018 OpenStreetMap
;2019 Let's Encrypt
;2020 CiviCRM
;2021 SecuRepairs
;2022 GNU Jami
;2023 code.gouv.fr
;2024 Govdirectory
Award for outstanding new Free Software contributor
The third annual award created by the FSF, the award is presented to an exceptional newcomer to the free software community.Winners
The award was first awarded for 2019 at LibrePlanet 2020, and the recipients have been:;2019 Clarissa Lima Borges
;2020 Alyssa Rosenzweig
;2021 Protesilaos Stavrou
; 2022 Tad
; 2023 Nick Logozzo
; 2024 Alx Sa
Award Committee
- 1998: Peter H. Salus, Scott Christley, Rich Morin, Adam Richter, Richard Stallman, and Vernor Vinge
- 1999: Peter H. Salus, no further details found
- 2000: no details found
- 2001 The selection committee included: Miguel de Icaza, Ian Murdock, Eric S. Raymond, Peter H. Salus, Vernor Vinge, and Larry Wall
- 2002 The selection committee included: Enrique A. Chaparro, Frederic Couchet, Hong Feng, Miguel de Icaza, Raj Mathur, Frederick Noronha, Jonas Öberg, Eric S. Raymond, Guido van Rossum, Peter H. Salus, Suresh Ramasubramanian, and Larry Wall
- 2003 The selection committee included: Enrique A. Chaparro, Frederic Couchet, Miguel de Icaza, Raj Mathur, Frederick Noronha, Jonas Öberg, Bruce Perens, Peter H. Salus, Suresh Ramasubramanian, Richard Stallman, and Vernor Vinge
- 2004: Suresh Ramasubramanian, Raj Mathur, Frederick Noronha, Hong Feng, Frederic Couchet, Enrique A. Chaparro, Vernor Vinge, Larry Wall, Alan Cox, Peter H Salus, Richard Stallman
- 2005: Peter H. Salus, Richard Stallman, Alan Cox, Lawrence Lessig, Guido van Rossum, Frederic Couchet, Jonas Öberg, Hong Feng, Bruce Perens, Raj Mathur, Suresh Ramasubramanian, Enrique A. Chaparro, Ian Murdock
- 2006: Peter H. Salus, Richard Stallman, Andrew Tridgell, Alan Cox, Lawrence Lessig, Vernor Vinge, Frederic Couchet, Jonas Öberg, Hong Feng, Raj Mathur, Suresh Ramasubramanian
- 2008: Suresh Ramasubramanian, Peter H. Salus, Raj Mathur, Hong Feng, Andrew Tridgell, Jonas Öberg, Vernor Vinge, Richard Stallman, and Fernanda G. Weiden.
- 2009: Suresh Ramasubramanian, Peter H. Salus, Lawrence Lessig, Raj Mathur, Wietse Venema, Hong Feng, Andrew Tridgell, Jonas Öberg, Vernor Vinge, Richard Stallman, Fernanda G. Weiden and Harald Welte.
- 2010: Suresh Ramasubramanian, Peter H. Salus, Raj Mathur, Wietse Venema, Hong Feng, Andrew Tridgell, Jonas Öberg, Vernor Vinge, Richard Stallman, Fernanda G. Weiden and Harald Welte.
- 2011: Suresh Ramasubramanian, Peter H. Salus, Raj Mathur, Wietse Venema, Hong Feng, Andrew Tridgell, Jonas Öberg, Vernor Vinge, Richard Stallman, Fernanda G. Weiden and Harald Welte.
- 2012: Suresh Ramasubramanian, Peter H. Salus, Raj Mathur, Wietse Venema, Hong Feng, Andrew Tridgell, Jonas Öberg, Vernor Vinge, Richard Stallman, Fernanda G. Weiden and Harald Welte.
- 2013: Suresh Ramasubramanian, Wietse Venema, Hong Feng, Andrew Tridgell, Jonas Öberg, Vernor Vinge, Richard Stallman, Fernanda G. Weiden, Rob Savoye and Harald Welte.
- 2014: Suresh Ramasubramanian, Marina Zhurakhinskaya, Matthew Garrett, Rob Savoye, Wietse Venema, Richard Stallman, Vernor Vinge, Hong Feng, Fernanda G. Weiden, Harald Welte, Jonas Öberg, and Yukihiro Matsumoto.