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The just-completed, online LibrePlanet conference was the venue for awarding this year’s Free Software Awards:

SecuRepairs was this year’s winner of the Award for Projects of Social Benefit, which 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. SecuRepairs is an association of professionals working in the information security industry, who have the common cause of supporting the “right to repair” devices and software.

[…] The 2021 Award for Outstanding New Free Software Contributor went to Protesilaos “Prot” Stavrou, who in a few short years has become a mainstay of the GNU Emacs community through his blog posts, livestreams, conference talks, and code contributions.

[…] Paul Eggert was this year’s honoree for the Award for the Advancement of Free Software, an award given 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. Eggert has been a contributor to the GNU operating system for over thirty years, including contributions to components like GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), and is the current maintainer of the Time Zone Database (tz), which provides accurate information on the world’s time zones.