Émilie Gillet (founder of MI) has done so much for the modular synthesiser world - she has pushed the state of the art pretty far forward, and now making all the designs available pretty much means that we are going to see some great progress beyond the current scene .. I wonder if there is a F/OSS award that she could be recommended for? Its one thing to release software for free, but to also do it for hardware designs is amazing ..
She released the designs years ago and her influence on the scene has been growing for years. Having a well engineered production example makes all the difference for people learning how to make electronic music devices