Jelle Hermsen wrote:
Maybe we can kick off some discussion about what we want to accomplish with FSFE in the lowlands. To summarize discussions we had a while ago, one of the first things would be to show our face at conferences and maybe use our NL (BNL?) team to relieve Rainer a bit.
Manning a stand is not really my piece of cake, but I will be at T-DOSE next weekend. I heard a rumour that FSFE might not be there (despite being listed on the website) because there was some confusion about dates resulting in double booking.
Another thing which is important are translations. I translated the monthly newsletter for a while, but I stopped doing this a while ago, putting more time directly into FLOSS-projects. I think it might be a good idea if we can get the Dutch translations on the road again, but especially regarding the website this is a bit of a Sisyphus task when you try to do it solo.
Translations are indeed important because I sometimes find myself not pointing someone to (a page on) the website because I know they'll be turned off by English (or just unable to understand it). I also know that good translating eats up a lot of time, which is why I'm reluctant to commit to the job for the long term (I don't like making promises I can't keep).
For me it's not that easy to make it to conferences in the weekend, and fosdem et al, because I'm the main care giver of two daughters. So unless I can push my own work aside during the week (I'm self-employed so that's doable) I won't be able to show my face much. Therefor I would love the idea of using this mailing list as the main spot for discussions and decision making.
You have my vote for fsfe-bnl. I believe in an earlier discussion fsfe-nl was found to be deprecated.