Before I start: http://fsfe.org/source/index.en.xhtml looks broken and the contact page says to mention it here.
Matthias Kirschner <[email protected]> > There are two topics: > - There is no European association. That is bad, because else FSFE would > have choosen that one. As this is not possible, we set up a German > association. To all intents and purposes, a German association is a European association because it is governed by EU law as well as German law and I think members could join it from anywhere in the EU (maybe even the world). Even when a European corporate form exists, like SCE, you still have to choose somewhere as its residence. > - Fellows not being members. It was a choice when we set up the > Fellowship to have Fellows as non-members. Like most of the people > doing work for FSFE are non-members. I feel that was a poor choice, as you can probably guess. I am a member of most of the things I work for at the moment. Not trusting future leaders with all aspects of our work is one reason why people choose strong copyleft, GPL rather than BSD, so it seems a bit odd that FSFE (like FSF) basically demands BSD-style surrendering of control over the future uses of one's work. > After some time we wanted to give > the Fellows more legal power in our constitution, so we introduced the > Fellowship seats in the GA, which Fellows can vote. That was a good move. > (Of course one of > the most powerful ways to influence FSFE is still to just do the work > as a volunteer and to contact us on matters, and discuss with us.) That seems rather opaque and neither democratic nor do-ocratic. As you may remember, I stopped volunteering when that approach did not produce proper consideration of putting any FSFE web pages under a free software licence. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/ _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
