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 (HTM)   Free Software Awards Winners Announced: Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, Govdirectory
       
       
        mrjay42 wrote 3 hours 4 min ago:
        I'm really surprised that in [1] " most (all?) E.U (so yes, I'm talking
        about political Europe, not geographical Europe) are not there :(
        
        What could be the reason for this?
        
 (HTM)  [1]: https://www.govdirectory.org/countries/
       
        onraglanroad wrote 4 hours 45 min ago:
        Why are the 2024 awards at the end of 2025?
       
        charcircuit wrote 8 hours 17 min ago:
        There seems to be a conflict of interest with GNU Guile and GIMP are
        winning these awards. In the last year there has been a lot of free
        software related to AI that has been developed along with pushing open
        source in AI that was more impactful tha than Guile.
       
        anyfactor wrote 9 hours 33 min ago:
        How does the govdirectory project work? Does it use web scrapers to
        collect the contact details? I checked the bot repository, and it was
        empty. [1] I would like to know about their methodology and to be
        honest how it helps me.
        
        There are only 46 countries listed there. I am not intending to be
        critical of the idea, but having contact information of government
        institutions is not an effective way to get things done, in my opinion.
        And most government websites and contact details are quite accessible
        because they are centrally built through national IT system and a
        unified software service (usually). In third and second world country
        the contact details is usually quite useless. You have to find the
        right person and sit in front of their office.
        
        The issue with the government contact repository is that it does not
        connect 'I have this problem' and 'who do I reach out to'. From my
        experience, you have to invest time in doing research and finding out
        who to reach out to.
        
 (HTM)  [1]: https://github.com/govdirectory/bots
       
        davexunit wrote 9 hours 47 min ago:
        I've worked with Andy a bunch and am glad to see him getting
        recognition for his work on Guile.
       
        EarlKing wrote 9 hours 52 min ago:
        I wish they'd spend less time giving awards and more time producing an
        actual specification for Project GNU so we can actually measure when it
        will be feature-complete.
       
          zvr wrote 1 hour 22 min ago:
          Do you have the same expectations from every software project? Linux?
          Python? Chrome? Microsoft Office?
       
       
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