JFYI:
http://www.freehackers.org/fosdem2002/guido.html
Philippe: Have you met interesting people? Guido: Oh definitely, yeah. Actually I had dinner with people from FSF Europe and they told me about their political lobbying activites in Germany and some other groups in France that are really helping governements understand what Open Source and Free Software is and helping them understand how they must make sure that they don't kill these activities.