FSF’s “Social Benefit” award contenders

Posted by ciaran on 0

This year, FSF announced a new award, the “Free Software Award for Social Benefit“. Nominations will be accepted until November 30th, but what sort of projects are elegible?

The award was inspired by the Sahana project, which is a free software package which was written to help distribute aid in Sri Lanka after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. The developers are hoping to develop it further so that it can be used after other disasters.

So that’s the only project that we can assume is elegible. But I reckon Wikipedia is elegible. Maybe the telecentres in Brazil would be elegible, although I don’t know too much about them (and I can’t find a good webpage about them, here’s one page that mentions them at least). BarnRaiser is another suggestion I’ve heard.

I hope that gives some people ideas – leave a comment if you think of a good candidate.