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FSCONS is a Nordic conference trying to bridge the gap between software and cultural freedom held each autumn in Gothenburg

Gothenburg

Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...

, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

. It shares many similarities with FOSDEM

FOSDEM

FOSDEM is a non-commercial volunteer organized European event centered around free and open source software development. It is aimed at developers and anyone interested in the free and open source software movement...

in the way in which the event is structured, but where the latter attracts speakers and visitors primarily interested in Free software

Free software

Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...

, FSCONS aims to attract a more diverse crowd. It was first held in 2007.

History

The event was first organised by members of the Free Software Foundation Europe

Free Software Foundation Europe

The Free Software Foundation Europe was founded in 2001 as an official European sister organization of the U.S.-based Free Software Foundation to take care of all aspects of free software in Europe. FSF and FSFE are financially and legally separate entities.FSFE believes that access to and...

, in particular its Swedish team and the then current intern in the Gothenburg office. It was organised the 7-8th of December 2007 and attracted about 80 visitors. Some of the speakers were Jonas Öberg, Mats Östling, Lars Aronsson

Lars Aronsson

Lars Erik Aronsson is a Swedish programmer and consultant, and the founder of two Swedish web sites: the free electronic book archive Project Runeberg and the Swedish language wiki Susning.nu....

and Georg C. F. Greve

Georg C. F. Greve

Georg C. F. Greve is a self-taught software developer, academically trained physicist and author. He has been working on technology politics since 2001 when he founded the Free Software Foundation Europe....

.

In 2008, the FSFE

Free Software Foundation Europe

was joined by Wikimedia Sverige and Creative Commons Sweden as co-organisers of the event, which was held the 24-26th of October. Notable speakers were Smári McCarthy

Smári McCarthy

Smári McCarthy is an Icelandic/Irish innovator and activist. He is a co-founder and board member of the Icelandic Digital Freedoms Society and a participant in the Global Swadeshi movement. He was the spokesperson and one of the organizers of the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative...

, Oscar Swartz

Oscar Swartz

Per Oscar Swartz is a Swedish entrepreneur, writer and blogger.Oscar Swartz was born in Solna, Stockholm County. He is the great-grandson of the former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Swartz, and a second cousin of the publisher Eva Swartz and the journalist Richard Swartz...

and Dr. Ansgar Bernardi.

In 2009, the event was held the 13-15th of November and attracted 275 visitors. Some of the speakers were Christina Haralanova, Amelia Andersdotter

Amelia Andersdotter

Amelia Andersdotter is a Swedish politician and prospective Member of the European Parliament , elected on the Pirate Party list in the 2009 election....

, Marcin Jakubowski, Erik Zachte, Edmund Harriss, Karin Kosina and Henri Bergius.

For 2010, the event took place the 5-7th of November and the first keynote speaker announced was Karin Kosina. Other prominent talks were given by Glyn Moody

Glyn Moody

Glyn Moody is a technology writer. He is best known for his book Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution . It describes the evolution and significance of the free software and open source movements with many interviews of all the notable hackers.- Selective bibliography :* Digital Code of...

, Erik de Bruijn, and, Alessandro Rubini, to mention a few.

The FSCONS of 2011 was held the 11-13th of November. As keynotes, Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman

Richard Matthew Stallman , often shortened to rms,"'Richard Stallman' is just my mundane name; you can call me 'rms'"|last= Stallman|first= Richard|date= N.D.|work=Richard Stallman's homepage...

talked on the Saturday, and Christina Haralanova on the Sunday.

Nordic Free Software Award

FSFE

Free Software Foundation Europe

and is presenting the winner of the yearly Nordic Free Software Award, given to the person/project that have made a contribution to the advancement of Free Software in the Nordic countries. The jury consists of member from FSFE

Free Software Foundation Europe

and Föreningen fri kultur och programvara (Free Culture and Software) and members from the free software community.

Winners

2007 : Skolelinux
Skolelinux
Skolelinux is an operating system intended for educational use and based on Debian .Skolelinux is a free and open source software project founded in Norway, now supporting all languages present in Debian...
2008 : Mats Östling
2009 : Simon Josefsson & Daniel Stenberg
2010 : Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson
2011 : Erik H. Josefsson

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