Press-release of the Free Software Foundation Europe For immediate release
"Free Software Foundation Europe finishes founding process"
(Hamburg) The founding process of the Free Software Foundation Europe, sister organization of the FSF, the world's oldest and most prominent Free Software organization, has been finished today. With a visit at the notary in Hamburg, Germany, Georg C. F. Greve, coordinator and President of the Free Software Foundation Europe, completed the final step on Tuesday, April 24th.
"The FSF Europe has officially begun activities on March 10th, 2001, but finishing the necessary formal steps for the founding took a little longer because the core team is spread over four European countries.", says Georg C. F. Greve. "The major hurdle to overcome has been to create a legal structure that would allow us to be present in every country despite the lack of harmonized laws for Europe-wide organizations."
The Free Software Foundation Europe is structured like a wheel with a hub in Germany and local organizations in the European countries. Founding the "FSF Europe - Chapter Germany" has been finished along with the central organization. The French chapter is to be finished very soon.
About the FSF Europe:
The Free Software Foundation Europe is the sister organization of the Free Software Foundation created 1984 by Richard M. Stallman in the United States of America.
Main purpose of the FSF Europe is to coordinate Free Software initiatives throughout Europe, to provide a Free Software competence-center for politicians and journalists and to provide infrastructure for Free Software projects and especially the GNU Project.
Further information about the FSF Europe can be found at
Contact: Europe Georg C. F. Greve greve@gnu.org Tel: +49-40-23809080 Fax: +49-40-23809081 France Frederic Couchet fcouchet@april.org Tel: +33-660-688931 Germany Bernhard Reiter bernhard@intevation.de Tel: +49-541-33508-33 Italy Alessandro Rubini rubini@gnu.org Tel: +39-0382-529.554 (o .424) Fax: +39-0382-529.424 Sweden Jonas Öberg jonas@gnu.org Tel: +46-21-144831
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