Those of you who subscribe to the FSFE list will have already seen this, but as the the message itself suggests I am re-posting it here, together with the suggestion that this LUG should nominate M.J. Ray for all his efforts, hard work and financial support for the foundation of the AFFS, see: http://www.affs.org.uk/, as, as one of those involved in the early stages I know that there would be *NO* AFFS without Mark.
From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" bkuhn@fsf.org Subject: Nominations Request for The 2002 FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:13:56 -0400
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The FSF and the GNU project request nominations for the 2002 FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software. We want to give this award to a person who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of Free Software (free as in freedom; see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html for the definition), through activities that accord with the spirit of software freedom.
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 software freedom. "Accord with the spirit" means, for example, that software, manuals or collections of them (online or on CD) must be entirely Free. Work done commercially is eligible, but we give this award to individuals, not to companies, organizations, or teams.
People such as Miguel de Icaza, Donald Knuth, Brian Paul, Guido van Rossum, Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Larry Wall who have already received this or other awards for their contributions, are not eligible for the Award for the Advancement of Free Software. Among those who are eligible, the award committee will try to choose whoever has made the greatest contribution.
Please send your nominations to award-nominations@gnu.org, on or before 15 October 2002. Please submit nominations in the following format:
* Put the name of the person you are nominating in the email message subject line.
* Please include, in the body of your message, an explanation (40 lines or less) of the work the person has done and why you think it is especially important to software freedom.
* Please state, in the body of your message, where to find the software which your nomination is based on.
Information about the previous awards can be found online at: http://www.gnu.org/award/
John Seago john.seago@dakings.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
Now you're just making me feel guilty for not having got the charity registration process underway sooner and being particularly slow to process new membership forms (about 2 weeks is normal atm). Also, there's not enough money or organisation to do or manage any of the projects that I think we should do (a fully localised accounting package is particularly high on my list... would anyone else here put money into a targetted fund for developing such a thing?). I also think that there aren't enough members yet and I've not been travelling to LUGs as much as I ought to.
No, I think there are better people who could get this this year. A few of the FSFE founders are definitely more deserving. I particularly suggest that you look at the work done by Georg Greve in travelling, advocacy and writing; and Werner Koch, vice-chancellor of FSFE Germany and GnuPG lead author, who has helped to prod the German government towards accepting it for some sort of official use.
There are others who may also be appropriate, but those are the two who came to my mind. Take a look and see what you think. I think it's too early for the UK scene to get such an award and there are half a dozen or so of us who have done about as much. I just talk more (and probably spend too much time preaching to the choir, which means you get to hear about it).
Speaking of that, AFFS would like to have a stand at LinuxExpo in London next month. In order to do that, I suspect we'll need help, so watch out for an appeal on the fsfe-uk list (linked from http://www.affs.org.uk/ ) very soon. Who from ALUG is going to be there? Care for an ALUG meet?
MJR
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 11:12:17AM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
I'm thinking of going but have been told that it wouldn't have such a community feel etc.
But hell, work is paying for it ;)
Craig wrote:
I'm thinking of going but have been told that it wouldn't have such a community feel etc.
Thats interesting, I have always had good fun when i have been before due to meeting up with lug people and going to the community talks and the community stands are always some of the liveliest and most interesting stands to go and look at. I remember one year the biggest talk was when Alan Cox talked about the work in progress on development of the 2.4 series kernel and it *packed* out the Redhat stand, and was by far one of the best talks going.
But hell, work is paying for it ;)
Free lunch!!! ;)
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 01:42:19PM +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
I think you were refering to linux expo 2000. A lot of people said that was the best ever show. The rest didn't come anywhere close.
Free lunch!!! ;)
Probably the local mcd (ick) and it never seems to fill me up!
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 14:07:33 +0100 Craig craig@wizball.co.uk wrote:
Probably the local mcd (ick) and it never seems to fill me up!
Last year I was surprised to find a pub very close to Olympia that was pretty cheap for decent sized portions and had Adnams on draught.
Steve.
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 08:59:42PM +0100, Steve Fosdick wrote:
Probably the local mcd (ick) and it never seems to fill me up!
Last year I was surprised to find a pub very close to Olympia that was pretty > cheap for decent sized portions and had Adnams on draught.
That should do me just fine! Though I know a few good places in london (mostly a bit costly but I have a strange bad habit of splashing out a bit ;)
Craig craig@wizball.co.uk wrote:
I'm thinking of going but have been told that it wouldn't have such a community feel etc.
I think there's even a community talks track at this year's expo. Last year's one was a bit poor because of the Birmingham expo uncertainty, so I think 101 have woken up a little.
MJR
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 02:07:58PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
Am I right saying that last year linux expo that some windows machines were on display?
Craig craig@wizball.co.uk wrote:
Am I right saying that last year linux expo that some windows machines were on display?
The internet cafe was Windows machines. If I remember correctly, Planetlan, who set up the cafe but hired the machines from somewhere else, were *very* annoyed that they got the machines too late to nux any of them. I suspect this year they will come prepared with their own bootable run-from-disc CDROMs web terminals if they are doing it.
MJR
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