“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.”