Scandinavian Free Software Award 2007

The Scandinavian Free Software Award

About the Award

The Scandinavian Free Software Award has been designed for Nordic citizens,
projects or organisations that make an outstanding contribution to the Free
Software movement. Free Software projects, efforts, achievements of all kinds -
including work done by Nordic citizens which has had a large effect in other
parts of the world are eligble to be nominated. It is the aim of FSCONS that
this award becomes an anual event.

This award is for Scandinavian citizens, projects or organisations that make
an outstanding contribution to the Free Software movement. It will first
be presented at FSCONS on Friday, December 7th.

The Award Committee

The award committee is compiled by Nordic citizens only. This year the
members are:

Anne Østergaard(Gnome Foundation, Denmark)
Henrik Sandklef (FSFE, Sweden)
Jonas Öberg (FSFE, Sweden)
Marcus Rejås (FSFE, Sweden)
Mathias Klang (FSFE, Sweden)
Petter Reinholdtsen (NUUG, Norway)

Award Party

The award ceremony will take place in Lindholmen, Kårhus at FSCONS on
Friday, December 7th, 19.00. Join us and see who will recieve the honor of being
most influential in the Nordic region.

Nominations

We would like to announce that the poll for submitting nominations is now
closed. Thank you to all of you who took their time and made their submissions.
Following, in no particular order, is the list of all the people, organisations
and projects that recieved a nomination:

Ole Tange
Henrik Nordström/Squid
Mats Östling
IT-Political Association
Lars Magne/GNUS
Skolelinux (DebianEdu)
Trolltech
eZ Publish
Stiftelsen Åpne kontorprogram på norsk
Øyvind Kolås/GEGL
Linpro
Bjørn Venn
Ake Hedman/ VSCP
Martin Andersson/ BLHTML
Erik Josefsson
Keld Simonsen
Simon Josefsson
Daniel Stenberg
Linuxportalen/ Jonas Björk

Contact information

Jonas Öberg, Vice president of FSF Europe

Phone: +46 733 423962
email: oberg@fsfeurope.org

Anne Østergaard, leader of the award jury

Phone: +45 35428873 (hjemme)
epost: anne@oestergaard.nu

References

Free Software Foundation Europe - http://www.fsfeurope.org/

Skolelinux - http://www.skolelinux.org/

GNU/LinEx - http://www.linex.org/

FSCONS - http://www.fscons.org/

GNU - http://www.gnu.org/