[okfn-coord] [Fwd: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] Recipients of Second Annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration Announced]

Tue Dec 11 20:26:14 UTC 2007

Looks like we didn't get lucky this time...

Funny - I didn't realise that John Seeley Brown was on the panel! I 
spoke to him for a while at Open Learn - I guess I should have mentioned 
more about Kforge... :-)

Try, try and try again right?

J.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE]  Recipients of Second Annual Mellon Awards for 
Technology Collaboration Announced
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:55:34 -0500
From: Diane Goldenberg-Hart <diane at cni.org>
Reply-To: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition <CNI-ANNOUNCE at cni.org>
To: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition <CNI-ANNOUNCE at cni.org>

(WASHINGTON, DC) The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation today awarded $650,000
in prizes to ten not-for-profit institutions in the second annual
Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC).The Mellon Awards
honor not-for-profit organizations for leadership in the collaborative
development of open source software tools with application to
scholarship in the arts and humanities, as well as cultural-heritage
not-for-profit activities. The awards were presented at the Fall Task
Force meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information by Sir Timothy
Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium and the inventor
of the World Wide Web. More information on the awards ceremony,
including podcast interviews with some of the recipients, will be
available at www.cni.org beginning 11 December 2007.

After a worldwide, public nomination process, the ten recipients were
selected by the MATC Award Committee, which included Berners-Lee,
Mitchell Baker (CEO, Mozilla Corporation), John Seely Brown (former
Chief Scientist, Xerox Corp.), Vinton G. Cerf (Vice President and Chief
Internet Evangelist, Google, Inc.), John Gage (Chief Researcher and
Director of the Science Office, Sun Microsystems, Inc.), and Tim
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