Re: [fsfc-discuss] A first time hello

[Russell McOrmond]

  Hello Mark, and sorry for the long delay responding.  My first 
thought was to wait to see if anyone else replied, and then this message 
got a bit lost in my overly large TODO box.


Mirko Lindner wrote:
> concrete plans to form a FSFC in the near future and if there was 
> anything I can do to help.


  I'm feeling underwhelmed by the response.  What we need to find is 
people with the energy to put some focus on this.   FSFC has my support, 
but unfortunately I can only give support to someone else and not do it 
myself (I'm focused on digital-copyright.ca , GOSLINGcommunity.org and 
related stuff).


  If you check the archives at 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/fsfc-discuss/ you will notice that the 
discussion of past attempts at getting charitable status.  There seems 
to be the suggestion that without the charitable status there is no 
point to there being an FSF chapter in Canada.  I don't agree, and 
believe that there is more than just the GNU project (IE: funding of 
software development) that is relevant for an FSF Canada to do.   I hear 
of FSF India hosting conferences, being active in public policy work, 
and so-on.

 It is (or should be) clear that the policy work needed in Canada is 
very different than the policy work needed in the USA.


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