Mark J. Wielaard receives Distinguished Service Award in Software Freedom
Date:
Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:44:13 +0000
Description:
The Software Freedom
Conservancy has announced that Mark J. Wielaard has been honored with the second annual
Distinguished Service Award in Software Freedom for his many years of
service to software freedom. Mark is one of many key FOSS developers who has designed his career so
that his employers have funded much of his FOSS work. Nevertheless,
Mark continues his volunteer work after hours as a key contributor who maintains Sourceware the
oldest FOSS collaboration and developer infrastructure hosting site in
history. 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 to
various other GNU projects.
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