Re: [Dfey-nw-discuss] Facebook Group

[Richard Thompson]

> I think this was meant for the list too :)

It might be better if you set all mail from the mailing list to have a
reply-to of the mailing list rather than the person who originally sent
the mail.

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> -------- Original Message --------
> 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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> To: 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
>>
>> --
>> www.tdobson.net
>> ----
>> 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?
>
>
> --
> Richard Thompson
>
>
> --
> www.tdobson.net
> ----
> 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
>
>
>


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Richard Thompson