On 05/02/16 15:19, Mirko Boehm wrote: > Hi, > >> On 05 Feb 2016, at 14:22, Daniel Pocock <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The UK may have an anti-EU referendum in 3 months. Yanis Varoufakis >> (controversial former Greek finance minister who rides motorbikes[1]) is >> now trying to create some movement of pro-EU democracy activists under >> the name DiEM25[2] with a launch in Berlin next week. >> >> What is notably absent from debates on both the left and right of the >> spectrum is any talk about the role of proprietary technology, big data >> and the cloud. Many of the social problems created by big data are >> global. The DiEM25 people are talking about "bringing back" democracy, >> but I suspect that with their web site simply linking to Facebook and >> Twitter they are simply another well-intentioned group transferring a >> little more power into the hands of a few privileged people in Silicon >> Valley. >> >> Is anybody in FSFE reaching out to any of these groups - anywhere in the >> political spectrum - to see if there are areas for collaboration? > > I wanted to attend the event but did not get an invitation or a ticket. I > would be interested in participating. >
How do people get the tickets, or are they purchased at the door? I wrote a blog about their reliance on facebook[1], some people have probably seen it on planet already. If people from this campaign or any other like it wanted to bootstrap themselves in a Free manner, do we have solutions for them? Has anybody ever written a guide or anything else to get people started? 1. http://danielpocock.com/giving-up-democracy-to-get-it-back _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
