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<title>Icelandic developer receives Nordic Free Software Award</title>
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<h1>Icelandic developer receives Nordic Free Software Award</h1>
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<p>Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson, Free Software developer and community
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builder from Iceland, has received the Nordic Free Software Award.</p>
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<p>This annual prize was awarded on Saturday by Föreningen för Fri Kultur
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och Programvara and Free Software Foundation Europe at the Free
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Software Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS) which took place in
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Gothenburg, Sweden this weekend.</p>
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<p>Einarsson has been a leading figure in Iceland's Free Software
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movement for more than a decade. He has been driving the country's
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Free Software and free culture community, founding and participating
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in various groups such as Vinix, contributing to the KDE project, and
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starting netverjar.is, an organisation fighting for civil rights on
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the Internet.</p>
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<p>"Without Bjarni, Iceland's Free Software community wouldn't be what it
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is today," says Karsten Gerloff, President of the Free Software
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Foundation Europe. "People like Bjarni are the lifeblood of our
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community. I'm very glad to see his work recognised in this way."</p>
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<p>Bjarni has advocated the use of Free Software by maintaining and
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distributing CDs with a free operating system, both translating and
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developing Free Software for several years.</p>
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<p>"The Nordic Free Software Award is special because it's a recognition
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from your peers," comments 2009 award recipient, the Swedish Free
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Software developer Daniel Stehnberg. "It means having your work
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appreciated by people who understand what you have achieved."</p>
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<h2>Links</h2>
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<li><a href="http://ffkp.se">Föreningen för Fri Kultur och Programvara</a></li>
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<li><a href="/index.html">Free Software Foundation Europe</a></li>
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