[PSL-Brasil] SecureDrop and Alexandre Oliva are 2016 Free Software Awards winners

[Filipe Saraiva]

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."
> 
> 
> 
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