Subject: Magnus Hagander awarded Free Software Award

Magnus Hagander awarded Free Software Award

From: Jonas Oberg <jonas_at_fsfe.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:53:11 +0200

Hi everyone,

I'm happy to report that Magnus Hagander has received the 2018 Nordic Free
Software Award, presented to him by Joonas Kylmälä at the FOSS North
conference earlier today. 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.

Huge thanks to Joonas for stepping in to handle this in Gothenburg during
FOSS North, thanks to Johan Thelin for hosting us this morning, the jury
who did most of the hard thinking, and everyone else who contributed in the
process, on and off line!

There's an awesome photo of the prize here:

  https://twitter.com/magnushagander/status/988343438730039297/photo/1

More information about the award and past winners here:

  http://ffkp.se/softwareaward.html

Best,

-- 
Jonas Öberg
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Received on 2018-04-23