Dear Members, This is a reminder that our annual members meeting will be held two weeks from Saturday, on March 15th, 2008. The meeting will feature speeches from FSF board members Mako Hill and Henri Poole and the director of the FSF-backed End Software Patents campaign Ben Klemens who will each address this year's theme, "Tackling the Big Issues." They will look at the projects that will demand the Free Software Foundation's attention in 2008: from software patents to freedom for web services, from advancing free software adoption to the changing relations with the entertainment industry brought about by this year's Hollywood writers' strike.
This year's meeting will also host the ceremony for the FSF's annual free software awards, where winners of the "Award for the Advancement of Free Software" and the "Award for Projects of Social Benefit" will be announced and recognized. Previous winners have included community luminaries like Andrew Tridgell, Theo de Raadt, and All Cox and projects of social benefit such as the Sahana Disaster Management System and Wikipedia. The meeting will also feature practical discussion among FSF members and its board of directors left by FSF president Richard Stallman who, as part of an interactive "Members Forum" session, will discuss current FSF campaigns and projects. The meeting is open to all FSF members. Please, send an RSVP to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Monday, March 10. The full schedule of speakers and details for attendees and registration is published at http://www.fsf.org/associate/meetings/2008. We hope to see you there! Sincerely, -- Jeanne Rasata Program Assistant Free Software Foundation _______________________________________________ Info-member mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-member
