Alex Hudson home@alexhudson.com writes:
.. and then you go on to agree that it is democratic.. hmm :)
I wasn't complaining that it was undemocratic, but merely that it was logical from some of the points stated to reach the conclusion that it is both secretive and undemocratic, regardless of the reality. Seeing as FSFE is supposed to lobby, it needs to learn to present things better. If it can't even preach to the choir, what hope is there?
[...] In the UK, there is _no_ Free Software organisation, full stop. There is the UKUUG (which includes propreitry Unixes), the LUGs (which include open source and/or BSD software), and that's about it. This means we have no UK chapter of the FSFE currently, and no associate organisation. There is no (AFAIK) uk discussion list @fsfeurope.org, and the one list that has been setup has had two posts (again, AFAIK) in total.
Assuming you mean http://www.x31.com/%7Eukfsfe/ then I've only just joined. The high traffic here recently and my busy week at work means that I'm lagging a bit. Expect things to pick up some time soon. There does seem to be a need for such an organisation, as my searching for a suitable UK associate organisation for FSFE over the last few months has proved fruitless.
Let's start trying to drive matters forward in the UK. I haven't noticed anyone telling uk.comp.os.linux or UKLUGs about it yet and that seems to be where many UK FS people are living for now.