Hello Friends, Im julien Ottavi from Apo33 : http://www.apo33.org and Nomad/babels : http://www.apo33.org/babels + http://babels.org We try to push the free software philosphy and the gnu/linux system in art and politics through our organisations. I was part of the organisations in Mumbai for the world social forum, working with FSF india. I come to you today, because first we want to fight to push the free software, free art, free knowledge in this society!!! and also because 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, helping the organisation to set a web site, helping in registration and media center software, this is an important issue for FSF europe, there's a lot of people come to this kind of event from all over europe (last time in Paris, there was around 700000 people). Do you have some contacts of people there I could put in touch with the organisations. Please help me to make this event happen under gnu/linux !!!
thanks a lot for your answer
best
Julien
julien@apo33.org
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,
Habe you contacted the AFFS yet? It is an associate organisation of the FSFE.
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,
Habe you contacted the AFFS yet? It is an associate organisation of the FSFE.
thanks for your answer, hope it will help! If you heard anything from people there, just send me an email. thanks a lot
Julien
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