-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [governance] APC Chris Nicol FLOSS Prize: Please spread and apply! Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:27:41 +0200 From: Anriette Esterhuysen <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: [log in to unmask], Anriette Esterhuysen <[log in to unmask]> Organization: Association for Progressive Communications To: <,[log in to unmask]>, <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>, AfriCS-IG <[log in to unmask]> Apologies for repeat and cross posts. Anriette ------------- MONTREAL, Canada, Mar 26 *Deadline has been extended to 5 May.* The APC Chris Nicol FLOSS Prize recognises initiatives that are making it easy for people to start using free/libre and open source software (FLOSS). The prize will be awarded to a person or group doing extraordinary work to make FLOSS accessible to ordinary computer users. The APC FLOSS Prize has been established to honour Chris Nicol, a longtime FLOSS advocate and activist who for many years worked with APC. Extraordinary initiatives that promote FLOSS are those that: * Improve the accessibility to, knowledge of and/or usability of FLOSS * Are user-oriented * Are documented so that others can learn from and replicate the model * Have demonstrable impact and have increased the number of people using FLOSS on a day-to-day basis. The successful initiative will be awarded a cash prize of USD 4,000 at a reception event in Barcelona, Spain on 6 June 2014. In addition to the global prize, APC will also be recognising exceptional work in FLOSS promotion with a USD 1,500 award to an individual or organisation from within its network. The prize is open to any person or group anywhere in the world who supports or promotes user-oriented free and open source software. The application form must be completed in either English or Spanish; however, there are no language restrictions regarding the language of the project. Small-scale activities are encouraged to apply. *Nominations for the prize will be collected until 5 May 2014 at midnight UTC.* *About Chris Nicol* Chris Nicol, an Australian educator and activist who made Barcelona his home in the early 1980s, was a member of the APC community from the mid-1990s until his untimely death on 29 August 2005. Chris believed that computers and the internet should be used for making the world a better place and that FLOSS was a way in which the communications for social change movement could integrate sustainable and alternative choices in its use and development of tools and technology. flossprize.apc.org <http://flossprize.apc.org> *About the Association For Progressive Communications (APC)* The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is an international network and non-profit organisation founded in 1990 that wants everyone to have access to a free and open internet to improve lives and create a more just world. apc.org <https://www.apc.org> *Media contact* Mallory Knodel Montreal +1514-573-6340 [log in to unmask] (END/2014) -- ------------------------------------------------------ anriette esterhuysen [log in to unmask] executive director, association for progressive communications www.apc.org po box 29755, melville 2109 south africa tel/fax +27 11 726 1692