Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2015/02/26/award-karen.html

I know this decision is tough, as all the candidates in the list deserve
an award. However, I hope that you’ll chose to vote for my friend and
colleague, Karen Sandler, for
the 2015 Red
Hat Women in Open Source Community Award. Admittedly, most of Karen’s
work has been for software freedom, not Open Source (i.e., her work has
been community and charity-oriented, not for-profit oriented). However,
giving her an “Open Source” award is a great way to spread the
message of software freedom to the for-profit corporate Open Source
world.

I realize that there are some amazingly good candidates, and I admit I’d
be posting a blog post to endorse someone else (No, I won’t say who 🙂 if
Karen wasn’t on the ballot for the Community Award. So, I wouldn’t say you
backed the wrong candidate you if you vote for someone else. And, I’m
imminently biased since Karen and I have worked together
on Conservancy since its
inception. But, if you can see your way through to it, I hope you’ll give
Karen your vote.

(BTW, I’m not endorsing a candidate in the Academic Award race. I am just
not familiar enough with the work of the candidates involved to make an
endorsement. I even abstained from voting in that race myself because I
didn’t want to make an uninformed vote.)