CatfishNews/3/FsAward2006

在我國的父親節這一天，自由軟體基金會與 GNU 計畫公開徵求「2006 自由軟體貢獻獎」的提名。此一年度獎項，是為了表揚透過依循軟體自由精神的作為，而對於自由軟體的進步與發展有重要貢獻的人士。

受獎者僅限於個人，而非某一公司、組織或團隊；之前的得獎者不得被提名，但仍然鼓勵再次提名曾經被提名者。評審委員會將從合乎資格的被提名者中，選出貢獻最大的人士。

之前的受獎人和得獎原因列出如下：

• 2005	Andrew Tridgell	for his work as originator and developer of the Samba project.	公告
  2004	Theo de Raadt	for his work on OpenSSH, his leadership of OpenBSD, his selfless commitment to Free Software and his advancement of network security.	公告
  2003	Alan Cox	for his work advocating the importance of software freedom, his outspoken opposition to the USA's DMCA (and other technology control measures) and his development work on the kernel named Linux.	公告
  2002	Lawrence Lessig	for promoting understanding of the political dimension of free software, including the idea that code is law.	公告
  2001	Guido van Rossum	for inventing and implementing as Free Software the Python programming language.	公告
  2000	Brian Paul	for his ground-breaking work on the Mesa 3D Graphics Library.	公告
  1999	Miguel de Icaza	for his excellent work on the GNOME project.	公告
  1998	Larry Wall	for his many contributions to the advancement of freely distributed software, most notably Perl, a robust scripting language for sophisticated text manipulation and system management.	公告

有意提名者請於 2006 年 10 月 31 日（一）之前，將它寄到 [email protected]，提交名單請符合下列格式：

• 被提名者的姓名請放置於信件的主旨欄。

• 信件內容請包含被提名者的工作成果說明（少於 40 列），以及為何您認為它對於軟體自由有特別的重要性。

• 請於信件內容中指出，何處可以取得您的提名所依據之資料（例如：軟體、手冊或著作）。

消息來源： FSF, 1998 - 2004, 2005 - 2006.