Hi,
this is not an election, this is a farce. And I will not vote for anyone
in this farce. There is no election commitee I trust, so I doubt that
these are free and fair elections. The only thing you'll get here is
maybe a tendency, what the rebels, malcontents and mavericks of the FSFE
community want or don't want.
I support FSFE and not FSF - among other things - because of Stallman.
No question RMS did much good for the Free Software movement. After all,
he founded it and he is one of the reasons why Free Software even
exists. But I don't think he should stay any longer the figurehead of
the Free Software movement. Seems the longer he has any say, the longer
he will poison the well. He hurts his mission with statements about
sexual abuse, dehumanizing disabled people and denigrating women.
Btw: I have written 2 emails to lists.fsfellowship.eu. I think they
never get it to his mailling list and I can not find them in the
archive:
https://lists.fsfellowship.eu/pipermail/discussion/2019-May/thread.html
Looks like I am censored by Daniel Pocock.
Regards
Christian Imhorst
Am 13.05.2019 10:41 schrieb Ingrid Schwarz:
Hello,
Sorry everybody for not replying over the weekend, here are some of my
policies
Many Fellows use the fsfe.org email addresses. The Fellowship Council
will demand a meeting with Richard Stallman and Matthias Kirschner to
understand the conflict about the FSFE name and also represent the
interests of Fellows who may be unaware of the conflict or
inconvenienced. If FSF really objects to the name like in the leaked
email then Fellows need to stop using it now, we shouldn't be trying
to extort things from FSF. People can't accuse the last Fellowship
rep of being entitled when FSFE is even more brazen using the name of
another organization. But I would try to get a good deal for Fellows
to keep their email addresses even if FSFE loses the name, this is why
it is so important for Fellows to have a voice in the Fellowship
Council now.
Another group where I volunteer runs an annual ball. We sell tickets
to all our friends, dress up and have a lot of fun. Most members are
able to sell between 6 and 10 tickets, enough to fill a table.
Fellowship groups can bid to host a Fellowship ball in their city each
year.
Before I write a lot more about my ideas, I would like to see the
policies of other candidates.
One candidate has proposed to delete people from the mailing list
without consent. I don't feel comfortable about that and if we are
both in the Fellowship Council, I would vote against it.
Yours,
Ingrid
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Wednesday, May 8, 2019 5:16 PM, Ingrid Schwarz
<[email protected]> wrote:
Dear fellows,
Conflict like this doesn't erupt spontaneously.
Daniel isn't even a candidate but people are attacking him. They talk
about respecting the Code of conduct in one sentence and break it in
the next. He promised a smooth transition for the new council, I can't
see any way that he profits from helping run the election, why can't
people just say thank you and move on?
Both Daniel and Armijn have described thuggish behavior from FSFE
bosses. Now we see it for ourselves.
I came across this quote from Georg Greve on the fsfellowship site:
"The Fellowship is an activity of FSFE, and indeed one of the primary
ways to get involved in the organisation. It is a place for community
action, collaboration, communication, fun, and recruitment that also
helps fund the other activities of FSFE, for example, the political
work."
Moving the list to get around censorship appears to be a good example
of that 'community action', activism and political work.
That is what political action looks like. It was effective. Now
everybody knows there is censorship in FSFE. We didn't know before and
now we do. It shouldn't be happening. If only more FSFE actions could
get their point across so clearly. That's activism, isn't that what we
signed up for? People can learn from somebody like Daniel.
I can't see any harm that can come about by having a fellowship
council but I can see many benefits this council will have for free
software. So I hereby nominate.
Yours,
Ingrid
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