This might be of interest to someone... A person wanting us to promote "open source" on a short notice, with a website asking to fill out a form to get registered to vote for this stuff.
Guillaume Yziquel a écrit : > Xavier Heymans a écrit : >> Dear Mrs, Mr, >> >> I received an automatic reply suggesting to send you this email. >> >> Thanks for your help, >> >> Xavier Heymans > > Dear Xavier Heymans, > > your message has made it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am the assistant of > Georg Greve, president of the Free Software Foundation Europe. > > I am not in a position to answer your request for now. I simply wish to > point out a few informations: > > We have an office in Brussels, for our Brussels representative, Ciáran > o'Riordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. But our organisation is essentially > based in Zürich, Switzerland, and in Göteborg, Sweden. > > If Misters Greve and o'Riordan fail to answer you in a timely manner, > you can also try to contact Mister Jonas Öberg, vice-president of the FSFE. > > Please be aware that the recent turmoil around the ISO process about the > MS OOXML file format is taking much of our energy these days. Please > bear on us, and feel free to contact me back if you're impatient. I'll > do my best to get you in contact with the relevant persons. > > I've got a few questions below however: > >> ----- >> Xavier Heymans, CEO >> Zea Partners >> Avenue Maeterlinck 18 >> 1348 Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium >> Phone : +32-(0)10 45 99 02 >> Mobile : +32-(0)478 516 777 >> www.zeapartners.org >> >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: Xavier Heymans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Date: Thu 30 Aug 2007 12:20:13 GMT+02:00 >>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Cc: Nicolas Bossut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Subject: Help - Voting open source into e-govemernment >>> >>> Dear M. Riordan and Greeve, >>> >>> I’m contacting you to evaluate if it would be possible to get support >>> from the FSF Europe to promote the article below and doing so, having >>> an open source project winning an Award at the EU e-Gov awards >>> organized by the EU Commission. >>> >>> PloneGov, a project in which Zea Partners (non-profit) is involved, >>> has all the chances to win the award. As far as we know, PloneGov is >>> the only truly open source and international project that was selected >>> among the 53 finalists. The project results of a close collaboration >>> between the public sectors and an open source community. > > You are using the expression "open source". This term covers a lot of > different licences. Could you please detail the licence under which the > sotware is distributed. > > I also wish to make clear that we do not endorse the use of the > expression "open source", because of the confusion it can create: some > interpretations of "open source" are not fully compatible for the 4 > freedoms typically applicable to Free Software. > > We therefore do attach importance to PloneGov's licensing terms. Could > you provide that to us? > >>> Developing open source in the public sector is strategic for the >>> future of OS in Europe, for the impact in term of OS adoption but also >>> for the political support. > > Apart from the "OS" wording, we do endorse this vision. > >>> For example, Philippe Busquin is supporting >>> PloneGov (mayor of Seneffe, member of PloneGov), former EU >>> Commissioner for Research and member of the European Parliament >>> (member of the Committee of Industry, Research and Energy). >>> www.zeapartners.org/events/may07/plone-egov-workshop >>> >>> I would also be interested to have a contact with you to evaluate >>> possibilities of collaboration to promote OS at European level. I >>> understand that your offices are based in Brussels, I'm also based in >>> Belgium. > > You can perhaps contact Ciáran o'Riordan, as he's our Bruxelles lobbying > representative. He's however fairly busy, but the name and title of > Philippe Busquin might therefore ring a bell for him. > >>> Don’t hesitate to call me if you have any question. >>> >>> With my best regards, >>> >>> Xavier Heymans >>> >>> ======================================================== >>> Last days of a unique opportunity to vote Open Source into eGovernment >>> ======================================================== >>> Your vote for the “Most innovative good practice” award is a unique >>> opportunity to reach politicians and decision makers. Winning this >>> award will highlight the maturity achieved by the Open Source >>> collaborative model as a pragmatic way to tackle IT challenges in >>> society. You may vote until Friday, September 7th. >>> >>> www.zeapartners.org/articles/vote-egov007 >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> Xavier Heymans, CEO >>> Zea Partners >>> Avenue Maeterlinck 18 >>> 1348 Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium >>> Phone : +32-(0)10 45 99 02 >>> Mobile : +32-(0)478 516 777 >>> www.zeapartners.org > -- Guillaume Yziquel, Assistant of Georg Greve, president of [EMAIL PROTECTED] the Free Software Foundation Europe. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.fsfeurope.org/ _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
