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<title>Jonas Öberg joins FSFE as Executive Director</title>
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<h1>Jonas Öberg joins FSFE as Executive Director</h1>
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<p>FSFE has recruited long-time Free
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Software activist Jonas Öberg to be the organisation's
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Executive Director. He joins the organisation's leadership
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team on March 1.
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<p>Jonas
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Öberg is one of FSFE's founding members, and was the
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organisation's vice president from 2001 through 2008. He has
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considerable experience in managing Free Software-related
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projects and organisations. Before joining as the organisation's
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Executive Director, he has been a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow
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working on the Elog.io project to create a global provenance
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repository for creative works, worked as Creative Commons'
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regional coordinator in Europe, lectured in Software Engineering
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and built up the conference FSCONS in its original form.
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Jonas first started volunteering for Free Software in 1998,
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while studying mathematics at a university level. Finding the
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classes in computer science much more interesting than
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mathematics, he soon found Free Software and began volunteering
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for the Free Software Foundation as chief webmaster for the
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GNU Project. Through the years, he's also participated in
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Debian, the GNOME project, and authored the occasional software
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himself.
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<blockquote><p>"We're absolutely delighted to have Jonas on
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board," says Karsten Gerloff, FSFE's president. "FSFE's
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volunteers and staff are enourmously dedicated and
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motivated. Jonas will channel this energy into an even
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greater capacity for action. Thanks to him, we will be able
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to achieve so much more for Free Software."</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p>"We face a need to secure the legal, social
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and technical foundations of Free Software, as well as continuing
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the work of raising awareness of Free Software," says Jonas Öberg.
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"Those are challenges that I very much look forward to tackling
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together with our staff, Fellows and volunteers across Europe and
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elsewhere, as well as in collaboration with other organisations."
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