2021 Free Software Awards announced

[Posted March 21, 2021 by corbet]

The Free Software Foundation has announced the recipients of its 2021 Free Software Awards. Alyssa Rosenzweig received the award for outstanding new free-software contributor, the CiviCRM project won the award for social benefit, and Bradley Kuhn received the award for the advancement of free software.

2021 Free Software Awards announced

Posted Mar 22, 2021 10:55 UTC (Mon) by oldtomas (guest, #72579) [Link] (2 responses)

Yay for Alyssa. She was featured here (Bitfrost). Her blog is stunning. She isn't just doing "cool stuff" as free software, but writing about it in a way that others will be inspired to try themselves.

After all, what good is free software for if nobody makes use of that freedom?

Yay for Bradley. I had the honour of meeting him in person once at a Debian conf. Thank you!

I must admit I don't know much about CiviCRM, but I'll make sure to change that.

And thank you, FSF!

2021 Free Software Awards announced

Posted Mar 22, 2021 11:18 UTC (Mon) by lynxlynxlynx (guest, #90121) [Link] (1 responses)

CiviCRM is a bit of an odd beast, but definitely deserves the laurels. Perhaps the CRM bit is confusing to some, but it really isn't about web shops and customer tracking — the C stands for constituent, so it's more about better and easier management of NGOs, their members and users. It's modular, so it can be a lean machine or a complex kitchen sink of interrelated tools.

2021 Free Software Awards announced

Posted Mar 22, 2021 14:18 UTC (Mon) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

It was definitely too complex to use even in small way for Krita's needs. Even when paying consultants to set up everything. And the implementation traject of CiviCRM for KDE e.V. has been dragging for many years now, with frequent changes of consultants.