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2007 Mellon MATC Awards Call for
Nominations
Our friends at the Mellon Foundation have just announced the call
for nominations for the 2007 Mellon Awards for Technology
Collaboration. This program, which debuted in 2006, recognizes
collaborative development of open source software of particular
interest to higher education and the not-for-profit sector. The full
details are below, in an announcement from the Mellon
Foundation.
I'm delighted that again in 2007 the MATC winners will be
announced and recognized at the Fall 2007 CNI Meeting in Washington DC
in December.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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Second Annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration
Announced
(NEW YORK, NY) The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation today announced
the second annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration
(MATC).The Mellon Awards, in values of $50,000 and $100,000, honor
not-for-profit organizations for leadership in the collaborative
development of open source software tools with particular application
to higher education and not-for-profit activities. More information on
the awards, including a listing of last year's winners and the 2007
online nomination form, is available at http://matc.mellon.org.
The awards will be presented at the Fall Task Force meeting of
the Coalition for Networked Information in Washington, DC on 13
December 2007, by Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide
Web Consortium and the inventor of the World Wide Web. The recipients
will be 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 O'Reilly (Founder and CEO, O'Reilly
Media).
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is a philanthropic organization
with offices in New York City and Princeton, NJ. The MATC awards are a
project of the Foundation's Program in Research in Information
Technology (RIT). More information about the MATC awards, including
the full content of this release, is available at http://matc.mellon.org.
For more information, please contact:
Christopher J. Mackie
Associate Program Officer, Program in Research in Information
Technology
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
282 Alexander Rd.
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-924-9424
cjm@mellon.org
http://rit.mellon.org
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