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!

Joonas

Jonas Oberg:

Hello,

you're getting this e-mail as you've previously been a part of the FSFE teams or discussion lists in either Finland or Sweden. We're now taking the next steps to increase our activities in the Nordic countries and would love for you to join us as a part of our new Nordic coordination team.

If you have an hour a week to spare for the FSFE in 2018, having your help in the Nordic coordination team would be most helpful. Here's what this team will do:

The Nordic coordination team will form a geographic team of the FSFE with responsibility for the coordination of FSFE activities in the Nordic countries.

The team will be coordinated (initially) by Jonas Öberg and ???.

One of the first task of the new team will be the organisation of the next Nordic Free Software Award. Generally, the team is responsible for maintaining the Nordic' countries information on the FSFE web pages and will provide input to the FSFE on local activities in its area.

The team will also do local activities and outreach, especially in relation to some of FSFE's priorities: encouraging public administrations to use free software (Public Money - Public Code), and making software licenses and copyrights computer readable (REUSE Initiative).

You can subscribe immediately to the new team mailing list by clicking here:

https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-nordic

You can also view the team wiki page here:

https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/Nordic

We hope to hear from you, and welcome to the FSFE Nordics! :)

-- Jonas Öberg, Executive Director Free Software Foundation Europe | jonas@fsfe.org Your support enables our work (fsfe.org/join)