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Re: [fsfc-discuss] Ping
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Russell McOrmond |
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Re: [fsfc-discuss] Ping |
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Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:11:29 -0400 (EDT) |
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Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) |
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Fabian Rodriguez wrote:
I noticed it's been quiet here for a while, just curious to know what is
going on with free software outside of Ontario and Quebec. And most
importantly, is there a need for an FSF.ca at all ?
It seems that it has remained quiet. I'm just going through older
email (more availability at end of a busy contract), and found this.
I still believe an FSF.ca would be very useful. I'm not thinking about
a GNU project (IE: a group that is authoring software) given I believe
that software is already being written, but an FSF Canada that focuses on
the advocacy and policy work.
We just had a public consultation on Copyright, and while I submitted
CLUE's policy summary to the consultation there was little FLOSS
visability that I'm aware of. I don't know if FSF itself, which indicates
they support North America, made a formal submission to the process. It
should have, and had many Canadians sign onto it to demonstrate it is a
message from Canadians, but this needed to have been coordinated.
There will always be things like that which needs people flying the FSF
flag to be doing work (and be visible) in Canada.
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