Mellon Foundation Announces Awards for Open Source Software

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has announced [external] the call for nominations [external] for the 2006 "Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration." 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.