Re: [Dfey-nw-discuss] Facebook Group

[Tim Dobson]

I think this was meant for the list too :)

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Subject: Re: [Dfey-nw-discuss] Facebook Group
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 00:36:59 +0100 (BST)
From: Richard Thompson <address@hidden>
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> Hope everyone is ok...
>
> I've been thinking a bit.
>
> I hate the system to death but I think we should get a DFEY-NW facebook
> group going.
>
> The reasons are simple: it's really easy to get people in the fringes to
> join a facebook group before joining a mailing list, coming to meetings,
> events etc...
>
> It's a good way to reach out.
>
> What's people's ideas on this?
>
> Tim
>
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> If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, then each of us
> still has one object.
> If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them, then each of us now
> has two ideas.   -  George Bernard Shaw

I think using Facebook to reach out is a great idea and have no issues
against it, however, as a group, we may need to decide whether using
Facebook contradicts DFEY politics.

Is the DFEY here to promote "free software" from a social perspective,
where the user's freedom is the main focus, or are we here to promote
"open source" from a technical perspective where the proprietary software
model is simply sub-optimal to the open source software model.

Or, I don't know, maybe we're here for a bit of both?


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Richard Thompson


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If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, then each of us
still has one object.
If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them, then each of us now
has two ideas.   -  George Bernard Shaw