fsfe-nl

[Sam Geeraerts]

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.