On ma, 23 loka 2017, Joonas Kylmälä wrote:
Hi,
I was happy to receive your message! I'm interested in helping with the Nordic Free Software Award! How many people we are and will we have regular meetings in order to make the thing happen? Maybe on IRC? Also, are we going to have some event in a physical location where to announce the person who to give the award?
I'm located in Helsinki and there is this meeting once in a month called "Free Thursday" where I could advertise this and maybe we will get some help from the people there!
One thing I just remembered is that I saw a sign in our local library that they are willing to provide the space and tools to anyone who is organizing some public event or performance, though the library is quite small but I'm confident that also the bigger ones with more space offer the same service. The sign also said they were willing to help with the marketing of the event!
Yes.
There are many places around the capital area where one can get a space for meeting. In Espoo, for example, one can use https://varaamo.espoo.fi/ to search for options on a specific date among all municipal places. I'm sure Helsinki has a similar set up as well.
Availability wouldn't be a big issue if we choose a date that doesn't overlap with any of big holidays.
I'm willing to help with activities in Nordic too. ;)