Brazilian software student wins top free software award | Linux Today

Brazilian software student wins top free software award

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Sam Varghese
Mar 18, 2020

A Brazilian software engineering student has won the Free Software Foundation’s Award for Outstanding New Free Software Contribution, a first-time prize offered by the FSF at its annual awards presentation which was held online on 14 March as part of the annual LibrePlanet conference.

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Sam Varghese

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