Tides Foundation is seeking nominations for the 2012 Antonio Pizzigati Prize from open source software developers that have benefitted the non-profit community in the US. This annual competition award, founded by The Florence and Frances Family Fund of Tides Foundation, gives 10,000 USD in prize honoring Tony Pizzigati, an early advocate of open source computing.
About the Pizzigati Prize
Funded by Tides Foundation, the Pizzigati Prize challenge aims at recognizing the software developers who make a two-faceted contribution to social change. At first place, the impact they create on the activitiesof non-profits: their software helps nonprofits both become more effective on a daily basis and build their capacity to better inform and mobilize their constituents. Secondly, public interest software developers play a broader role. The ideals of public interest computing, as they have evolved inside the open source movement, promote collaboration and sharing.
Applicants will be evaluated by an advisory panel that includes past winners of the Prize on a range of criteria. The winner is expected to have:
- Developed an elegant open source software product that serves a critical need in the broader U.S.-based nonprofit community
- Evolved a plan to scale the product through wide distribution of the code
- Exemplified the values of public interest computing
- Demonstrated vision and inspired innovation in the field of public interest computing
Award Ceremony
The Tides Foundation, as host of the prize process, will name the next annual Pizzigati Prize winner at the Nonprofit Technology Network’s 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference in April 2012.
Last date for submission of nominations is October 31, 2011.
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