'Free Software Awards' Winners Announced: Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, Govdirectory

This week the Free Software Foundation honored Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, and Govdirectory with this year's annual Free Software Awards (given to community members and groups making
'significant' contributions to software freedom):

Andy Wingo is one of the co-maintainers of GNU Guile,
the official extension language of the GNU operating system and the
Scheme 'backbone' of GNU
Guix. Upon receiving the award, he stated: 'Since I learned
about free software, the vision of a world in which hackers freely
share and build on each others' work has been a profound inspiration
to me, and I am humbled by this recognition of my small efforts in
the context of the Guile Scheme implementation. I thank my
co-maintainer, Ludovic Courtès, for his comradery over the years: we
are just building on the work of the past maintainers of Guile, and I
hope that we live long enough to congratulate its many future
maintainers.'

The 2024 Award for
Outstanding New Free
Software Contributor went to Alx Sa for work on the GNU
Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). When asked to comment, Alx
responded: 'I am honored to receive this recognition! I started
contributing to the GNU Image Manipulation Program as a way to return
the favor because of all the cool things it's allowed me to do.
Thanks to the help and mentorship of amazing people like Jehan Pagès,
Jacob Boerema, Liam Quin, and so many others, I hope I've been able
to help other people do some cool new things, too.'

Govdirectory was presented
with this year's Award
for Projects of Social Benefit, given to a project or team
responsible for applying free software, or the ideas of the free
software movement, to intentionally and significantly benefit
society. Govdirectory provides a collaborative and fact-checked
listing of government addresses, phone numbers, websites, and social
media accounts, all of which can be viewed with free software and
under a free license, allowing people to always reach their
representatives in freedom...

The FSF plans to further highlight the Free Software Award winners
in a series of events scheduled for the new year to celebrate their
contributions to free software.

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