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Mark J. Wielaard (mjw) receives Distinguished Service Award in Software Freedom
by Justin Wheeler 13 Aug '26

13 Aug '26

Hi Fedora folks! 👋🏻 Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) honored *Mark J. Wielaard* (mjw) with the second annual Distinguished Service Award in Software Freedom at *FOSSY 2026*. This award recognizes decades of dedicated service to software freedom in both volunteer and professional capacities. Within Fedora, Mark plays a critical role in maintaining the foundation of our development and debugging stack. He is the package maintainer for several core packages, including: * debugedit * dwz * elfutils * rpm * systemtap * valgrind Beyond his essential packaging work for Fedora, Mark's broader impact on the FOSS ecosystem includes: * *Tooling & Standards*: Long-time maintainer of the Valgrind and elfutils projects, and member of the DWARF Debugging Standard Committee. * *Securing Open Java*: Led the IcedTea project to bridge core Java libraries with free software alternatives. * *Critical Infrastructure*: Voluntarily maintaining Sourceware, a developer hosting platform. Please join in congratulating Mark on this outstanding and deeply deserved recognition! 👏🏻🎉👏🏻 You can read the full SFC announcement and celebration remarks here: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2026/aug/12/mark-j-wielaard-receives-2-annua… -- *Justin Wheeler* (*he/him*) || 📧 jwheel(a)redhat.com || 🔗 jwheel.org *Formerly Justin W. Flory* *AI Alignment* Community Architect, *Fedora* TZ=America/Atlanta (UTC-4) 🕗 *Fedora is a registered Digital Public Good <https://app.digitalpublicgoods.net/a/12003>* While I may be sending this email outside my normal office hours, I have no expectation to receive a reply outside yours.

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