On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 12:03 +0000, Andrew Savory wrote: > > I think also having half an eye on what other people are doing > > (Openforum Europe =~ Open Document Alliance/Certified Open, Open > > Source > > Consortium, National Open Centre (?)) in that area is worthwhile, > > though. > > We should be friends with ORG, too.
Yep - and, to be fair, we did arrange a small gathering of us, FFII, ORG, Open Source Consortium and a few others after the DRM thing at the British Library this summer. Maintaining contacts with friendly organisations hasn't really been a problem. The main issue right now, in my mind, is having a. activists and b. identifying the issues people care about (I probably have those in the wrong order). It's not like the people who are involved with AFFS were too busy for it per se (though that definitely helped), but we've been active in different areas - the OSC and Open Schools Alliance stuff has taken the interest of a few, and of course people are involved in pet free software projects etc. too. I think, for me, the "gaping hole" in the landscape is community and voluntary development, as that hasn't been addressed particularly well, and AFFS has always basically been about the free software community anyway. Cheers, Alex. _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
