The Free Software Foundation has announced that Eli Zaretskii, the de facto lead Emacs developer, is the winner of the Award for the Advancement of Free Software. It’s well deserved and I offer him my wholehearted congratulations.
Zaretskii has provided exactly the quiet, steady leadership that the project needs. He devotes huge amounts of time to Emacs for free and we should all be extraordinarily grateful. The award is the least the community can do for him and I’m glad he received it.
Congratulations, Eli; the award is well deserved.