Global: The Antonio Pizzigati Prize For Software in the Public Interest

The newly inaugurated Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest offers a $10,000 award to a software developer who has made, in the spirit of open source computing, an outstanding contribution to the nonprofit world and the ongoing work of social change. The Tides Foundation, the host of the prize process, will name the first annual Pizzigati Prize winner on June 19, 2006.