Hi
On Sun 08-Feb-2004 at 12:19:14PM +0100, julien wrote:
Bernhard Reiter wrote:
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:22:19AM +0100, julien wrote:
I am in touch with the people whose organised the european social forum around november 2004 in London... and we would like them to work with people from the gnu/linux and FSF community for this event (registration, website, translation, media center...etc), I would like to ask you if there's some people in London ready to push the free software in this event,
I see you have found this already but others might not know that there is a discussion about this on the socialtools-help list:
http://lists.socialtools.net/wws/info/socialtools-help
And basically the SWP / GLA want to spend 20-30 grand on a 'professional' web site -- I suspect this is so they can have total control over it, more info here:
http://lists.socialtools.net/wws/arc/socialtools-help/2004-02/msg00004.html
These people (SWP / GLA) do have much to fear -- they don't like open non-hierarchical organisation or working with people who might question their demands and they have no understanding of Free software.
Onging news about the ESF in London in 2004 can be found here:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2004/esf/
Best of luck in getting these people to see the light, it might be easier to just set up a 'non-official' EFS web site that does use free software and allows participation (open publishing, wikis etc...).
Chris