<incom> open source software award

[Steve Cisler]

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Mellon Foundation Announces Awards for Open Source
Software

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is pleased to announce
today a Call for
Nominations for the 2006 Mellon Awards for Technology
Collaboration
(MATC). These awards, to be bestowed for the first
time at an
international technology conference in the Fall of
2006, will recognize
not-for-profit organizations that have demonstrated
exceptional
leadership in the collaborative development of
open-source software
through the contribution of substantial, self-funded
organizational
resources to the open-source project for which they
are nominated. The
nomination period ends August 15, 2006.

MATC awards will be made at two levels-$25,000 and
$100,000-for
significant contributions to collaborative,
open-source software
development that serves one of the Foundation's
traditional
constituencies. The level of the award will depend on
the scale and
significance of the nominated project.  Any U.S. or
foreign 
organization
that meets the Foundation's legal criteria for
receiving grants and its
strict standards for excellence is eligible for
consideration. The 
Board
of Trustees of the Mellon Foundation has authorized
multiple awards at
each level.

MATC recipients will be selected by an Award Committee
consisting of:

*         Mitchell Baker, President, Mozilla
Foundation

*         Sir Timothy Berners-Lee KBE, FRS, FREng.,
Director, World 
Wide
Web Consortium; 3Com Founders Professor of Computer
Science, M.I.T.;
Professor of Computer Science, University of
Southampton

*         Vinton G. Cerf, Vice President & Chief
Internet Evangelist,
Google, Inc.

*         Ira Fuchs, Vice-President, Research in
Information 
Technology,
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

*         John Gage, Chief Researcher and Director of
the Science
Office, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

*         Tim O'Reilly, Founder and President of
O'Reilly Media

*         John Seely Brown, Former Chief Scientist,
Xerox Corp.; Former
Director, Xerox PARC

*         Donald J. Waters, Program Officer, Program
in Scholarly
Communication, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The full text of the Call for Nominations is available
now, at

http://rit.mellon.org/awards/

Founded in 1969, with offices in New York City and
Princeton, New
Jersey, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is a
philanthropic organization
with traditional constituencies in higher education
(with a particular
interest in the arts and humanities), museums and art
conservation,
performing arts, conservation and the environment, and
public affairs.
Among the Mellon Foundation's signature technology
projects are the
online academic journal repository JSTOR and the
digital art archive
ARTStor; the Foundation also funds a variety of
open-source software
development projects in higher education and other
not-for-profit
sectors.

For further information, please contact:

Christopher J. Mackie
Associate Program Officer
Research in Information Technology
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
282 Alexander Rd.
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-924-9424
646-274-6351 (fax)
cjm at mellon.org
http://rit.mellon.org

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