EFF Awards

Last night I attended the EFF Pioneer Awards. My friend Limor of Adafruit Industries recieved an award for being awesome. She is an obsessive electronic engineer who has a successful open source hardware business and she pushes the limits with projects like an open source cellphone jammer.

This is an important one. Limor is an awesome engineer. My favorite kind that won't sleep till something works and obsessive about things like order fulfillment tool chains. The open source hardware world is small and growing and Limor is a true pioneer in this frontier. Getting recognized by the EFF, is big to me. It says, "Hey, don't mess with Open Source Hardware because the EFF knows about it and recognizes it as awesome."

Besides getting to see my friend have an award ceremony moment, I got to see other people get awards including the gentleman who broke the diebold voting system.

I feel very strongly that information should be freely shared and I've been a big fan and supporter of the EFF for years. They are the rockstars of the laws that I care about and so after the awards when I got to meet a few of them, it was kinda like being backstage at a rock show. The lawyers are all badasses, but they are also nice people and they all have a strong sense of humor. If you ever get a chance to go to an EFF event, you should. If you aren't a supporting member, here's the link where you can go support these lawyers that are kicking butt to defend digital freedom.