FOSDEM Belgian follow-up

Mauricio Nascimento aurion at fsfe.org
Wed Feb 5 11:39:59 CET 2014


Hello everybody, Hi Nicolas.
I am sorry to hear that, but at least we can use the positive things 
that you and Philippe developed and learn with your experience. And 
thanks a lot for all the work you had been done so far.
Supporting this campaign is the right thing to do now. The 
freesoftwarepact.eu can be used as is or with only some little changes 
in the text for the country elections (maybe April can adapt the 
original text after the EU elections, maybe Philippe can ask April about 
it).
I am in favor of having only one Free Software pact that can be used for 
any elections, whether for European Parliament, European countries, 
American countries, Asian countries, African countries, Australian and 
Oceanian or Antarctica. We have a common goal and I think we must stick 
together a fully support it.

Cheers,

Mauricio

On 2014-02-04 21:26, Nicolas Pettiaux wrote:
> Dear,
> 
> I have indeed launched and worked a lot on lepacte.be that has followed
> candidats.be, a copy/adaptation in Belgium
> of the French initiative candidats.fr.
> 
> Thiw was done maintly and mostly by Philippe Teuwen and myself. We have
> setup the technical and done most of the actions. We have had some 
> relay in
> 2009 to have candidates from the cdH party sign, but Philippe and 
> myself
> have contacted most other candidates ourselves. This was exhausting so.
> 
> We have therefore decided not to work on the campaign again if no other
> people join strong enough. So far, even after my request for help on 
> many
> different lists and to different groups, I have not seen any help 
> coming.
> 
> Being busy by work and seeing this lack of interest and preparation, I 
> have
> therefore decided NOT to work on a 4th campaign this year.
> 
> The campaings of 2009, 2010 and 2012 have costed us (Philippe and 
> myself)
> much to much energy and money (I have spent a personnal fortune on 
> phone
> calls to policians)
> 
> But I would be more than happy to see you stepping in, working on the
> website to have it work again, and contacting the politicians or 
> setting up
> a full and better campaign.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Nicolas
> 
> 
> 2014-02-04 Maël Brunet <maelbrunet at gmail.com>:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Adding Nicolas to the thread.
>> 
>> That would be great ... FSFE had plans to launch a similar campaign 
>> but
>>> we learned that April[1] launched the campaign[2] just some minutes
>>> before. :(
>> 
>> I think April's initiative concerns the EU elections, while what Rytis
>> talked about and lepacte.be are for the Belgian federal and regional
>> elections.
>> 
>> During the meeting at Fosdem I offered to draft some ideas for an 
>> action
>> plan on lepacte.be and still intend to do so but will probably only 
>> find
>> time next week.
>> 
>> Best
>> 
>> Maël
>> 
>> 
>> 2014-02-04 Mauricio Nascimento <aurion at fsfe.org>:
>> 
>>> On 04/02/14 15:04, Rytis Bagdziunas wrote:
>>> > Hi all,
>>> >
>>> > Some of us met at FOSDEM. As a reminder, I'm from the Belgian branch.
>>> Hi Rytis, nice to meet you. I am from the Belgian branch as well and 
>>> I
>>> am really sorry I got late and missed that important meeting.
>>> I hope we can work together here in Belgium to re-activate our 
>>> sleeping
>>> cell and plan some activities very soon.
>>> How about a fellowship meeting this month?
>>> 
>>> > On the Belgian side, we talked about relaunching hetpact.be/lepacte.be
>>> > <http://lepacte.be> initiative for the coming Euopean/federal/regional
>>> > elections in May. That could be a good way for newcomers, like me, to
>>> > get into FSFE movement.
>>> That would be great ... FSFE had plans to launch a similar campaign 
>>> but
>>> we learned that April[1] launched the campaign[2] just some minutes
>>> before. :(
>>> So we decided to first, as individuals and citizens, to support April
>>> campaign and some French fellows are getting in touch with April's
>>> organization to see how FSFE can fully engage on it. I think at this
>>> moment we should concentrate the efforts and support one campaign, to
>>> make it bigger instead of spreading the efforts on two or even three
>>> campaigns on the same topic.
>>> 
>>> > Since electoral lists aren't finished yet, it's not for today but we
>>> > should be ready for some bulk e-mailing as of March, I guess.
>>> >
>>> > First thing to do is to get in touch with Nicolas Pettiaux who did it
>>> > the first time and see if he's still interested/willing to help.
>>> >
>>> > You guys have any additional thoughts or remarks on this?
>>> I talked to Nicola some weeks ago, I think we should meet him to talk
>>> about it if he is still interesting on that subject.
>>> 
>>> Please let me know if we can setup a fellowship meeting this month, 
>>> that
>>> would be awesome. :)
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Mauricio Nascimento
>>> 
>>> 
>>> [1]
>>> 
>>> https://www.april.org/en/open-letter-members-european-parliament-free-software-and-free-software-pact
>>> [2] http://freesoftwarepact.eu/
>>> 
>>> 
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