BW: 2nd Free Software Foundation Award Given to Miguel de Icaza for His Work on the GNOME Project

"The Free Software Foundation (FSF) bestowed its second Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software to Miguel de Icaza."

"The award, a one-of-a-kind handmade quilt, was given to the 27-year-old Mexico native for de Icaza's excellent work on the GNOME project. The ceremony was held in conjunction with the Bazaar, an EarthWeb event currently taking place at the Jacob Javitz Center in New York City."

"de Icaza headed a team of more than 300 programmers worldwide, most of them volunteers, in the development of GNOME. GNOME is a user-friendly graphical users interface (GUI) and programming platform for GNU/Linux. GNOME 1.0 was first released in March 1999 and has since had a step-up release."

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