[Team] The Antonio Pizzigati Prize For Software in the Public Interest

[Nicholas Wheeler]

The Tides Foundation, the host of the prize process, will name the first
annual Pizzigati Prize winner on June 19, 2006.
All applications for this year's prize must be received by May 12, 2006.

On 6/8/06, Kevin Cole <kjcole at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> Hey all...  I thought folks might want to take a crack at this.
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> From the web pages at http://www.pizzigatiprize.org/
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> OUR MISSION
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> Software developers who create, for free public distribution, open source
> applications and tools that nonprofit and advocacy groups can put to good
> use are making a two-faceted contribution to social change.
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> These developers are first, of course, having an important practical
> impact. Their software can help nonprofits become more effective, on a
> daily basis, and build their capacity to better inform and mobilize their
> constituents.
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> But public interest software developers have a broader role to play as
> well. The ideals of public interest computing, as they have evolved inside
> the open source movement, promote collaboration and sharing. Against the
> idea that progress demands cutthroat competition, by individuals striving
> to get ever richer, these developers model the notion that we all benefit
> when we work together.
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> This commitment to collaboration and sharing, in the continuing struggle
> for a better world, is exactly what the Pizzigati Prize seeks to honor.
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Nicholas Wheeler
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