"Georg C. F. Greve" greve@gnu.org writes:
First of all I'm sorry that we aren't more active on the list, but
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Don't worry about it. Thanks for keeping us informed and if you can keep passing information to the list, I'm sure the more verbose of us can try to keep the discussion running and (mostly) on topics that seem useful for the "membership" to exist at this early stage of life. I'll certainly be chipping in my two pen'orth once I return from my Christmas break. (Don't worry, I shan't be idle, I'm writing again.)
In countries where membership organizations exist (like April in France) that uphold the spirit of Free Software we will probably "make" those the associated organizations - and there is not necessarily a limit to the amount of local organizations that may become associated. In countries where such organizations do not exist or where enough people feel that another such organization should be created, we will help create it.
It sounds like you probably don't want to discuss this just yet, but are you able to provide a list of the organisations under consideration for this approach? If nothing else, it would be interesting to know what places already have people flying the Free Software banner so that we can have a peek and see what successes (and possible failures ;-) ) that they've had in this campaign, as well as their structure and methods. As I'm sure we all appreciate, there are a lot of subtly different cultures within the FSFE region and it's always interesting to look at and learn from each other.
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be prepared that people will try to get you with this one - so I thought you should know what was going on there.
Thanks.
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But we also have very good news: Mandrakesoft wants to donate EUR 2.500 to the FSF Europe. Apparently they had a challenge set up where the winning team could select a project that should be supported and the result was in favor of the Free Software Foundation Europe. Thank you so much!
What was the project whose team favours us so much? :-)
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Alright, that's it from our side, we all hope you'll have nice holidays and a good new year!
Same from here to all involved!