Public Lab and Karen Sandler are 2017 Free Software Awards winners

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announcedthe winners of the 2017 Free Software Awards during LibrePlanet."Public Lab is a community and non-profit organization with the goalof democratizing science to address environmental issues. Theircommunity-created tools and techniques utilize free software and low-costdevices to enable people at any level of technical skill to investigateenvironmental concerns." The organization received the Award forProjects of Social Benefit. Karen Sandler, the Executive Director of theSoftware Freedom Conservancy, received the Award for the Advancement ofFree Software.