{"id":1245,"date":"2009-09-25T16:27:42","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T14:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2009-09-25T16:27:42","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T14:27:42","slug":"my-nordic-free-software-awards-2009-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2009\/09\/25\/my-nordic-free-software-awards-2009-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"My Nordic Free Software Awards 2009 nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey, it’s really about time to nominate your favourite Free Software persons and projects <\/a>from the nordic region for the 2009 awards before the time runs out.<\/p>\n

This year, I decided to nominate the following “nordic” heroes:<\/p>\n

Simon Josefsson<\/strong><\/p>\n

For his excellent work in GnuTLS<\/a>, libssh2 <\/a>and a bunch of other projects.<\/p>\n

Henrik Nordstr\u00c3\u00b6m<\/strong><\/p>\n

For his work in the Squid <\/a>project, and his efforts within IETF<\/a> and its HTTP related struggles and more.<\/p>\n

Bj\u00c3\u00b6rn Stenberg<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the primary founder of the Rockbox <\/a>project. He started somehting special back in 2001 that now is a huge, thriving and succesful Free Software project.<\/p>\n

As you might spot, I favor “doers”. I don’t believe in the concept of “nordic projects” when it comes to free or open software – the entire concept of open and free should mean that projects cross borders and regions.<\/p>\n

In fact, it feels so out of the ordinary to think about open source people in a geographical context I find it hard to come up with a lot of names. It would be cool if ohloh <\/a>had some ways to list people and projects based on where people live.<\/p>\n

Then again, if a person from <\/em>a nordic country moves somewhere else, is he or she still a nordic person? Does it depend on where the person lived during the actual act? Is Linus Torvalds a nordic person since he was born, lived many years and started his big project in Finland?<\/p>\n

(yeah I already blogged about this subject but hey, it can’t hurt can it?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey, it’s really about time to nominate your favourite Free Software persons and projects from the nordic region for the 2009 awards before the time runs out. This year, I decided to nominate the following “nordic” heroes: Simon Josefsson For his excellent work in GnuTLS, libssh2 and a bunch of other projects. Henrik Nordstr\u00c3\u00b6m For … Continue reading My Nordic Free Software Awards 2009 nominees<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,3],"tags":[227,205,230,249,424,19,416],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libssh2","category-floss","category-rockbox","tag-award","tag-fscons","tag-http","tag-ietf","tag-libssh2","tag-open-source","tag-rockbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}