Nordic Free Software Award

The Nordic Free Software Award is honouring people from the Nordic countries who've made prominent contributions to the advancement of Free Software. The jury consists of previous years' winners, making the award a true recognition from ones peers. The award was first handed out in 2007 and was last awarded in 2018 at the FOSS-North conference on the 23rd of April 2018 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

2018 Nordic Free Software Award!

At the FOSS North conference in Gothenburg, the 23rd of April 2018, Magnus Hagander received the 2018 Nordic Free Software Award. The award was presented by FSFE Nordic Team member Joonas Kylmala after a public nomination period and the selection of the jury, consisting of Otto Kekäläinen, Daniel Stenberg, Simon Josefsson, Erik Josefsson and Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson.

The jury's motivation:

Magnus is a core PostgreSQL developer, member of the first Executive Committee of PostgreSQL Europe, co-organizer of Stockholm PostgreSQL Meetup and a frequent speaker and organiser at various events all around the world.

In addition to critical and foundational technical work on PostgreSQL, Magnus has provided the practical and administrative implementation of the objectives of PostgreSQL Europe for ten years.

The Nordic Free Software Award is given to people, projects or organisations in the nordic countries who have made a prominent contribution to the advancement of Free Software.

Magnus receives the award as an individual, but in all three categories, as he has contributed to the successful institutionalisation of the prerequisites for Free Software in the field of relational databases.

Congratulations, Magnus!

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