Re: [Fsfe-uk] Stalls at Marxism 2003

[North London John]

On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 12:47  pm, Ramanan Selvaratnam wrote:

> > > I don't believe it would be appropriate for AFFS to have an official
> > > presence at this event.
> What would be considered as an official presence?
>
> A desk with leaflets and energetic members willing to chat about the 
> need for software freedom is all what would be needed in any party 
> political convention.

Would it be possible to do cd-roms with Free Software (Mozilla, 
OpenOffice, Knoppix) and Free writings? Demonstrate our principles as 
well as talk about them.

> I thought there was a special reason for attending Marxism 2003 ..... 
> to highlight the hypocritical practices of the system admins of the 
> SWP.

Also, it was suggested because it's broader than just the SWP - 
spanning Labour leftwards. Bringing Free Software to the attention of 
unions would be a benefit.
(And connecting with other NGOs concerned with intellectual property 
law - eg the various campaigns opposing Monsanto's seed patents.)

> Maybe more information and  introductory leaflets stating our position 
> as purely software freedom related is needed.
> In fact there are other resources dedicated to marxist free software 
> campaigners to avoid some of the common misunderstandings we might 
> have experienced in the past (ie, point away for any party political 
> animal who misses the point).

I thought there was a lack of marxist free software resources? Could 
you post details/urls/etc?

(On a tangent, the party conference season will be here in a few months 
- it's not too early to consider attending those.)

John Levin