Hello, > On 08 Feb 2016, at 11:28, Daniel Pocock <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We constantly reach out to political parties, attend their meetings, give >> workshops, talk with staffers, etc. >> > > How does this group appear in relation to others? > > The main thing that caught my eye is that they are unified by an > emphasis on democracy, despite the fact that many of the people involved > have significant differences in other policy areas. Democracy is also > something that is now heavily connected with digital freedom. In > Richard Stallman's talk the other day, he was emphasizing software > freedom should be considered as fundamental as the right to public > assembly or the right to vote.
I agree with your argument that groups aiming at improving democracy are better served with free software. I would be rather careful with connecting Richard’s statements with the demand for democracy in the EU. Mandatory software freedom as he demands and democracy are not inherently connected. > Has there been any effort to survey or catalog free software use in such > groups, parties, lobbying organizations and see how it evolves over > time? Some are notoriously bad at it, having something to compare them > against could be helpful. I am not aware of something like this. Cheers, Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | [email protected] | KDE e.V. FSFE Fellow, FSFE Team Germany Qt Certified Specialist Request a meeting: https://doodle.com/mirkoboehm _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
