We could change the name to "Fellowship of the Software Freedom e.V (FSFE)" and address the fellow membership issue as well!
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Kostas Boukouvalas <[email protected]>wrote: > On 05/01/2012 01:04 μμ, William from Texas wrote: > > Seeing as fsfeurope.org <http://fsfeurope.org> redirects to fsfe.org > > <http://fsfe.org>, I don't think the brand is being weakened. "FSFE" > > would seem to be the leading acronym, with "FSF Europe" maybe used at > > times to show stronger affiliation as "a European branch of the FSF". > > Not having reviewed any charters, though, I can't be sure how accurate > > the real situation is or should be. > > > > Compare: > > - "FSFE initiated talks with Danish MEPs." -> An org called FSFE is > > talking with MEPs in Denmark. > > - "FSF Europe initiated talks with Danish MEPs." -> The FSF is talking > > with Danish MEPs through it's EU office. > > > > This would be very misleading, given that FSFE is not the European > branch of the FSF. Even FSF, at their page calls it "sister > organisation". (See above the www badges at the bottom of the page). > > > A primary acronym should be official, but a balanced "E vs Europe" mix > > can be useful in raise public awareness depending on context. > > In many ways we could raise public awareness. We could for example make > a hack and rename FSFE to EFSF so journalists, governments, the whole > world could take it for European Financial Stability Facility and so we > could be famous in dt. > > But how effective this would be for GNU/Linux to raise its market share > on desktops more than 1,2%? > > -- > FSFE Fellow >
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