I don't take directly part on FSF. I'm a advanced user of Fedora and Centos. However I'm engaging to put the free-software in first place among the Fedora people (in my blog, in Fedora forum, on the web), e.g. with post like that<http://fedora-os.org/2011/10/17/how-to-render-fedora-fully-free-or-almost/>.
In my opinion, we (as free software supporters) should start with a STRONG spread of the FOSS within the major distro communities; now, the no-FOSS is more and more present into the distros by reason of professional needs or "personal convenience" and this is very dangerous. 2012/5/12 Ramana Kumar <[email protected]> > As promised, I've started a campaign page on LibrePlanet for New GNU. > > Here it is: http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:New_GNU. > I repeat my request for someone to set up a proper campaign home page. > > Everyone please visit the wiki page and make one small improvement! > > We can continue to clarify ideas on the wiki page and on this list. > > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Ramana Kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Thanks for mentioning Diaspora* - I actually hadn't heard of it before, >> and now I have requested an invite. >> >> It sounds like there are two actionable threads emerging from this >> discussion: >> 1. organise promotion of free social networks, especially switching away >> from proprietary ones together as a group of friends, and >> 2. organise promotion of free operating systems, possibly by introducing >> GNU to many people who haven't seen it or didn't know they were using it >> These activities can of course be linked, because they share the >> underlying message that freedom matters. >> >> In the spirit of Free as in United <http://rys.io/en/58> I think these >> two projects should have a homepage or two so we can clarify plans and >> ideas and get people involved. >> Who would like to host this? Remember the bystander effect: if you don't >> volunteer, maybe nobody will. So I am asking you to step up! >> In the meantime, I commit to start a page on the LibrePlanet Wiki to >> collate ideas raised so far by Monday 14th. (unless someone beats me to it >> :P) >> >> >> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> Dnia wtorek, 8 maja 2012 o 12:18:56 Patrick Anderson napisał(a): >>> > We are fooling ourselves to believe P2P networking >>> > such as Diaspora can solve our problems. >>> > >>> > It only moves a very small part of the problem. >>> > >>> > We, the users, must co-own the servers and the >>> > buildings housing those servers, and the ISP connecting >>> > us to those servers, and the factories used to create >>> > those servers, and the power-plants used to power >>> > those servers, and the fields used to supply the food >>> > needed to power our bodies, and the water-rights >>> > needed to grow that food, and the mines needed to >>> > create all the tools needed for those operations, and >>> > all the other parts, recursively, for all the production >>> > needed to continuously recreate our daily needs for >>> > all the things we need. >>> > >>> > To leave any of this to corporations that we do not >>> > control is to relinquish control of the planet to those >>> > that must subjugate us in a variety of ways to >>> > perpetuate the scarcity required in their maniacal >>> > quest to keep price above costs. >>> >>> Absolutely. But we need to start *somewhere* and moving away from >>> proprietary social networks is a good first step - first, because it >>> can be made "fun" (as I wrote before; secondly, as after that, even if >>> 90% of users will be on joindiaspora.com, they will already be using a >>> service with a protocol and decentralisation built-in. That means it >>> will be trivial to move from server to server if need be. >>> >>> Instead of "moving away from Facebook and losing all my contacts" >>> situation we will land in "I'll just change the server and notify all >>> my contacts, just like with e-mail". Which is obviously much, much >>> better. >>> >>> Other than that, pray tell, do you have a silver-bullet-conquer-them- >>> all plan to achieve what you wrote about? If so, I'm in. If not, we >>> need to move one step at a time. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Pozdrawiam >>> Michał "rysiek" Woźniak >>> >>> Fundacja Wolnego i Otwartego Oprogramowania >>> >> >> > -- *Antonio Trande "Fedora Ambassador" **mail*: mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]> *Homepage*: http://www.fedora-os.org *Sip Address* : sip:sagitter AT ekiga.net *Jabber <http://jabber.org/>* :sagitter AT jabber.org *GPG Key: 19E6DF27*
