David A. Wheeler's Blog

Sun, 06 Nov 2011

Open Source Award!

I’ve learned that Open Source for America (OSFA) has awarded me a 2011 Open Source Award - Individual Award for my work to advocate consideration of “open source software in the US Department of Defense (DoD)”. They specifically point to my papers Why Open Source Software / Free Software? Look at the Numbers! and Nearly all FLOSS is Commercial.

The winners of all the 2011 awards were:

• Open Source Deployment in Government: (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate‘s Homeland Open Security Technology (HOST) program. (I’m involved in this, too.)
• Open Source Project: Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) for its OpenLayers web mapping project.
• Individual Awards: David A. Wheeler (me) and Melanie Chernoff

Thanks so much, OSFA! I’m honored.

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