Software developers, heads up — the Tides Center is offering a $10k prize to encourage you create “open source software that adds significant value to the nonprofit sector.” See below. (Hat tip, Deb Schneider!)

Tides is now accepting nominations for the $10,000 Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest, an award that honors open source software developers who add significant value to the nonprofit sector and ongoing efforts for positive social change.

Nominations for the prize, the largest annual award in public interest computing, will be accepted through February 1, 2010, and the winner – the fourth to be selected – will be announced at NTEN’s 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference in April.

Complete application information for the Pizzigati Prize is online at www.pizzigatiprize.org.