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
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
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
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.orgcjm@mellon.org
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