Nominate a free software initiative for the Chris Nicol FLOSS Prize!

The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) has established the Chris Nicol FLOSS Prize, which recognizes initiatives that are making it easy for people to start using free software. The prize will be awarded to a person or group doing extraordinary work to make free software accessible to ordinary computer users. Nominations will be collected until May 5, 2014. From APC: The APC FLOSS Prize has been established to honour Chris Nicol, a longtime free software advocate and activist who for many years worked with APC. Extraordinary initiatives that promote free software are those that: Improve the accessibility to, knowledge of and/or usability of free software 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 free software 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 June 6, 2014. In addition to the global prize, APC will also be recognizing exceptional work in free software 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 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 May 5, 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 August 29, 2005. Chris believed that computers and the internet should be used for making the world a better place and that free software 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. 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.