Une FSF pour l'Europe

Je viens de recevoir un email sur la future création d'une petite soeur de la FSF pour l'Europe. Le but est d'avoir une organisation adaptée à la culture et à la législation européenne pour la promotion des Logiciels Libres et pour la récolte de fonds ...

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                Free Software Foundation Europe

                Declaration of Intent

					-- Georg C. F. Greve

                                             <greve@gnu.org>

A group of people have begun working on the concept of a "Free Software

Foundation Europe" which will essentially be a sister organization of

the Free Software Foundation founded by Richard M. Stallman.

It has become evident that the FSF in the U.S., being in a totally

different time and culture zone, can hardly keep in touch with the

strong developments and currents in European Free Software. Legally

independent of the FSF in America it will seek to grant an

organizatory backbone for Free Software in Europe - especially for

(although not limited to) the GNU Project. Furthermore it will provide

the necessary local organization for political work and distribution

of funds.

In achieving the goals

	- Political mouthpiece for Free Software & the GNU Project

	- Providing an organizational backbone

	- Raising & Distribution of funds

we percieve it as absolutely paramount to maintain the true spirit and

essence of Free Software. 

We also would like to avoid creating another splinter group in the

movement. For this reason we are in contact with Richard M. Stallman

as the goal is to become the acknowledged "European sister

organization" of the FSF - this will also allow Europeans to make

tax-deductable donations to "the" FSF.

Being the official sister organization brings the responsibility to

preserve its philosophical standpoints and values. In our eyes it is

the lastingness of all decisions and workings of the FSF that makes it

so special; so we will apply the same long-term considerations in all

our steps.

As the recent past has shown, it is quite quite easy to stray off the

path and lose track of those long-term goals. Hence it is crucial only

to have members with a firm grasp on the movement, its origins and the

goals.

We felt that this responsibility made it necessary to become aware of

the possible traps and pitfalls along the way before making our plans

public. After over a year of discussions and building trust into each

others integrity, we feel that it is time to bring those plans to

life. 

So far the core consists of

	Georg C. F. Greve <greve@gnu.org>

	Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@intevation.de>

	Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>

	Peter Gerwinski <peter@gerwinski.de>

and we will set up a "FSF Europe" organization in Germany as a

starting point. From there on we will follow a step-by-step to other

European countries with the final plan to have a strong and sound

structure in Europe that will work towards the goals of Free

Software. 

We will be looking for other people with a firm GNU and Free Software

awareness especially in France, the U.K. and Spain as our first step

of becoming truly European. If you feel you should be contacted and we

haven't done so already, don't despair. You might consider getting in

touch with us, but please bear in mind that being part of this

organization requires a relatively high level of commitment and

establishing the necessary level of trust into each other is a slow

process. 

We intend to do things right as a flawed approach might reap hideous

results. If you want to help us, feel free to get in touch with us at

	<team@fsfeurope.org>

or subscribe to the general discussion list

	<discussion@fsfeurope.org>

If you just want to be kept update of the progress, feel free to

subscribe to the announcement-only mailing list

	<announce@fsfeurope.org>

You can subscribe to the mailing lists by sending mail to

	[name]-request@fsfeurope.org

with "subscribe" in the subject or by using the web interface at

	http://mailman.fsfeurope.org

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