[Fsfe-ie] 1-page letter, faxes at the ready

[adam beecher]

> +32 is their Brussels office, +33 is their Strasbourg one.
> This plenary session is in Strasbourg but I've heard that
> communications sent to one office get forwarded to the other, not
> sure what sort of delay occurs though.
>
Well, I sent 'em to +32. Right-to-left an' all that. :)

> Agreed.  This is still something I'm thinking about (how to set up
> an effective organisation).  A board of five people would be great
> but five people have to stand out as being capable.  This can only
> wait so long.  At some point we should just make an org and if it's
> suboptimal, we'll live with it for a year and have elections then.
> Jan 5th would be a good cut-off date for an org, it's the 20th
> anniversary of the GNU project.
>
To be clear, I'm not all that bothered about the actual organisation. As
Adam Moran suggested, we have our organisation right here, so I'd be
inclined to just give it a name and a logo. And don't make a big thing out
of them either, they tend to take important energy away from the actual
campaign. Something simple like "The Association of Free and Open Source
Software Developers" with a plain-jane black-and-white logo (lots of faxes
remember) is just fine.

I can go through examples of why I think this if you like (I (am/have been)
involved with IrelandOffline, IE Watch and CorkWAN), but I'll assume for the
moment that I don't need to. The only minor concern I have is the implicit
tie with Free Software, but since it's just the mailing list at the moment,
it's not really that important.

> A public "fax your MEP" webpage?
> it would have been a hinderance.  One of the problems we encountered
> was the complaint that MEPs were receiving too many communications.
>
Again to be clear, the faxing project is a general tool I wish to introduce,
to be used by voters and Internet-based campaigns in general. I wasn't
specifically suggesting it for this campaign.

adam