Nominate your entries for Free Software Magazine Awards 2008! To nominate a project, a person or a site, just leave a comment under this story or send an email with subject “Awards” to:

Nominations close on April, 30 2008. Hurry!

The core authors at Free Software Magazine will be the judges for the 2008 Free Software Magazine Awards.

The judges are:

• Tony Mobily (Free Software Magazine’s founder)
• Ryan Cartwright (FSM author)
• Andrew Min (FSM author)
• Anthony Taylor (FSM author)
• Gary Richmond (FSM author)
• Terry Hancock (FSM author)
• Andrea Di Clemente (free software wizard and guest judge)

Here are the categories:

• Most helpful web site

Which web site has helped free software and/or free software users between April 2007 and April 2008?

• Revolutionary piece of software: A piece of free software released between April 2007 and April 2008 which helped world domination

• Most influential Free Software person: Which personality has done the most for Free Software between April 2007 and April 2008

• Most inspiring project: Which project had the biggest impact in worthwhile causes between April 2007 and April 2008? (Fighting poverty, improving people’s quality of life, and so on)

• Most influential book: The most important book, in terms of free software, released after between April 2007 and April 2008

• Most important project for the GNU/Linux Desktop: The project that helped GNU/Linux the most in the desktop computing arena between April 2007 and April 2008

• Best free software friendly hosting: The hosting service that offers the best service for free software users, AND offers discounts to free software projects, between April 2007 and April 2008