FSFE offers Free Software personal assistance for businesses
Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has always helped the community through providing pro bono advice, and through this has discovered that businesses often require additional personal assistance. For this reason, FSFE is offering businesses a chance to get individual consultancy regarding Free Software issues at its Zurich, Switzerland office.
Shane Coughlan, FTF coordinator, will be available for reserved sessions starting from July 13th. The sessions cost 150 Euro per hour, with a special discounted rate of 100 Euro for companies that have Fellowship members among their employees. The FTF can also organise and hold in-house training sessions and workshop on Free Software licensing.
"We started the FTF so individuals, projects and businesses could get high quality information and expertise when required," says Georg Greve, President of FSFE. "Most of that work is pro bono and done to support the growth of the Free Software community, but that has various limits. This new service specifically targets companies that want to obtain personal assistance from a known and trusted community organisation. It's also worth pointing out that by making use of this service, companies will help to sustain FSFE's continuing pro bono community work."
The FTF will continue to provide education, compliance assistance and fiduciary services to individuals, projects and businesses as before.
"Individual consultancy is not a replacement for any of our existing work," says Shane Coughlan, FTF coordinator. "It's an additional service to complement it and to help bring us a little closer to Free Software legal infrastruture in Europe that can provide solutions to anyone no matter how large or small their requirements."
About the Free Software Foundation Europe:
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is a non-profit non-governmental organisation active in many European countries and involved in many global activities. Access to software determines participation in a digital society. To secure equal participation in the information age, as well as freedom of competition, the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) pursues and is dedicated to the furthering of Free Software, defined by the freedoms to use, study, modify and copy. Founded in 2001, creating awareness for these issues, securing Free Software politically and legally, and giving people Freedom by supporting development of Free Software are central issues of the FSFE.