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Hi
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It's great to see all this goodwill towards promoting our project. And I guess this is just as good an excuse as any to reach out to our friends at the FSF and wish them the best for the new year and all! ([EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:ed) A personal mesage to Richard: I know you speak French, and wish to extend this email as an open invitation to visit us in Paris. We would love to have you host a talk here, but I guess you are quite busy with the GPLv3 launch these days? * Wengo is a FSF associate member (#3789), and is highly interested in any venture promoting/defending libre/free software, because a [major amount] of its business is based on open-source technologies. We are obviously concerned (puzzled?) with the current EUCD policy-making that is going on these days here in France. * I believe OpenWengo, ie us all here on the mailing list, should also look at various business-oriented interest groups, such as the OSI, to help us understand how to build a sustainable ecosystem between this community and the "commercial pressure from above" (and hence, for those of us who are lucky to be employed, to preserve our salaries) - in the end we all have the same goal of making the best free software possible. * I think I can say that we [wengo-employed developers] are all very excited to be working on a free software project such as wengophone while getting payed for it. But the best part is that Wengo[the SIP service company] is actually playing the F/OSS game, and giving quite a lot of autonomy to its developers to organize, promote and maintain the project's growing community. Hence the "openwengo initiative", a trac/wiki for technical info, this mailinglist, IRC channel, etc... These public tools exist because Wengo believes the community has an important part to play in this adventure. * To even further OpenWengo's independence from Wengo[SIP service], and i'm announcing this here for the first time very officially, a brand new community website is currently being worked on. It will present the OpenWengo initiative, it's projects, an easy download of both binaries and source packages, and more. Once we have it up and running, replacing the current www.openwengo.com, the anglophone SIPminute-selling interface (and the end-user support forum) will move to another domain. The trac/wiki @ dev.openwengo.com will remain as is, though it is being heavily worked on also by jgi who is doing an astonishing job with documentation. pat cito wrote: what do you think about Vadim's idea "Free to call, using Free software"? sounds great don't you think?Why not... Don't y'all think there is something to do with the word "speech" ? Free software for free speech? We most definitely could change our "claim" in sync with the website overhaul... Does anyone have other suggestions, even radically different? In the long run, we intend to make the www.openwengo.com website a community project, just like wengophone. For now, we'd like to make a bunch of goodies available for download for the new website's launch... Anyone out there with graphic talent want to make a cool OpenWengo desktop wallpaper? Send your creations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Happy Holidays to all ;-) -- /adrien |
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