* Daniel Pocock <[email protected]> [2016-02-08 11:28:01 +0100]: > > 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?
Sorry, I don't understand that question. > 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. Yes, I am glad Richard included that in his speeches now. See also: - Democracy requires Free Software <https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/society/democracy.en.html> (16 languages) - FSFE's mission statement <https://fsfe.org/about/mission> "These rights help support other fundamental rights like freedom of speech, freedom of press and privacy." > 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. We started once to document it for public administrations: http://wiki.fsfe.org/Free_Software_usage_in_public_administration but not for parties, lobbying organisations, etc. Best Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 | (fsfe.org/donate) Weblog (blogs.fsfe.org/mk) - Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner) _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
