Mark J. Wielaard receives Distinguished Service Award in Software Freedom

The Software FreedomConservancy has announcedthat Mark J. Wielaard has been honored with the second annualDistinguished Service Award in Software Freedom for his many years ofservice to software freedom.

Mark is one of many key FOSS developers who has designed his career sothat his employers have funded much of his FOSS work. Nevertheless,Mark continues his volunteer work after hours as a key contributor whomaintains Sourceware - theoldest FOSS collaboration and developer infrastructure hosting site inhistory.

In addition to his work on Sourceware, Wielaard is a member of the DWARF Debugging Standard Committee,the maintainer for Valgrind and elfutils, as well as a contributor tovarious other GNU projects.