Grande Oliva, envio minhas felicitações pelo prêmio, um verdadeiro e mais do que merecido reconhecimento por todos esses anos dedicados à causa e aos diversos projetos que você fundou ou se envolveu.
Parabéns! Em 26-03-2017 08:23, fabianne balvedi escreveu: > Parabéns, Oliva!!! Prêmio mais que merecido! =D > > https://www.fsf.org/news/securedrop-and-alexandre-oliva-are-2016-free-software-awards-winners > > > SecureDrop and Alexandre Oliva are 2016 Free Software Awards winners > > by Free Software Foundation <https://www.fsf.org/author/fsfweb> — > Published on Mar 25, 2017 07:11 PM > BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Saturday, March 25, 2017 -- The Free > Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the winners of the 2016 Free > Software Awards at a ceremony held during the LibrePlanet 2017 > conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). FSF > President Richard M. Stallman presented the Award for the Advancement of > Free Software and the Award for Projects of Social Benefit. > > The Award for Projects of Social Benefit > <https://www.fsf.org/awards/sb-award/> is presented to a project or team > responsible for applying free software, or the ideas of the free > software movement, to intentionally and significantly benefit society. > This award stresses the use of free software in service to humanity. > > This year, SecureDrop <https://securedrop.org/> received the award, > which was accepted by Conor Schaefer, Senior DevOps engineer for Freedom > of the Press Foundation. > > SecureDrop is an anonymous whistleblowing platform used by major news > organizations and maintained by Freedom of the Press Foundation > <https://freedom.press/>. Originally written by the late Aaron Swartz > with assistance from Kevin Poulsen and James Dolan, the free software > platform was designed to facilitate private and anonymous conversations > and secure document transfer between journalists and sensitive sources. > It has been used in newsrooms across the world, including /the > Intercept/, /Associated Press/, /the Washington Post/, /the Guardian/, > /ProPublica/, and /the New Yorker/. > > In his speech, Stallman emphasized the importance of whistleblowers in > the maintenance of a free society. "[SecureDrop] provides a necessary > channel for whistleblowers to communicate through." > > "At Freedom of the Press Foundation, we believe strongly that an > obstinate and cantankerous press is fundamental to keeping populations > informed and empowered," Schaefer said when accepting the award. "Secure > and anonymous communication is more important today than ever before, > and is vital for protecting high-risk individuals such as investigative > journalists and their confidential sources. > > "SecureDrop is one way we try to tackle that problem, by defending the > right of the press to inform the public. The project is the result of > hard work by security engineers and contributors in the free software > community. Under the hood, it's a medley of free software tools, and > could not exist without the vibrant free software movement to depend on. > > "On behalf of Freedom of the Press Foundation, thank you, to everyone in > the free software community, to those brave enough to fight to inform > the public, and to the Free Software Foundation in particular. It's a > privilege to work with you all. Keep fighting the good fight, we're > right there with you." > > The Award for the Advancement of Free Software > <https://www.fsf.org/awards/fs-award> goes to an individual who has made > a great contribution to the progress and development of free software, > through activities that accord with the spirit of free software. > > This year, it was presented to Alexandre Oliva > <https://www.fsfla.org/%7Elxoliva/>. An advocate of free software and > the GNU Project, Oliva's impact has been felt far beyond his home in > Brazil, from giving talks about free software to his role as maintainer > of linux-libre, the fully free version of the kernel Linux. A leader in > the robust Latin American free software community, he started a project > to reverse engineer the proprietary software used by Brazilian citizens > to submit their taxes to the government, giving people there the > opportunity to complete this interaction almost entirely with free > software, and offering inspiration (and free code) for those wanting to > tackle this common issue elsewhere. > > Stallman said that he is "especially impressed with [Oliva's] project > Softwares Impostos. His project provides a free replacement for > proprietary software required by the [Brazilian] government to submit > taxes." Stallman praised the efficacy of Oliva's work and the dedication > it showed to creating and maintaining software that has significant > impact while respecting user freedoms. "In many years, he had his > updates ready before the official software came out." > > "I first met Richard 21 years ago," Oliva said. "That defined the rest > of my life. I've shared his message—our message—since then and now I > think I know that I've been doing it right." > > > > > _______________________________________________ > psl-brasil mailing list > psl-brasil@listas.softwarelivre.org > http://listas.softwarelivre.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/psl-brasil > Regras da lista: > http://wiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/PSLBrasil/RegrasDaListaPSLBrasil > SAIR DA LISTA ou trocar a senha: > http://listas.softwarelivre.org/mailman/options/psl-brasil > -- Filipe Saraiva http://filipesaraiva.info/ _______________________________________________ psl-brasil mailing list psl-brasil@listas.softwarelivre.org http://listas.softwarelivre.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/psl-brasil Regras da lista: http://wiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/PSLBrasil/RegrasDaListaPSLBrasil SAIR DA LISTA ou trocar a senha: http://listas.softwarelivre.org/mailman/options/psl-brasil
