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[Fsfe-france] Compte rendu d'activite de la liste fsfe-portugal
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Frederic Couchet |
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[Fsfe-france] Compte rendu d'activite de la liste fsfe-portugal |
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12 Jun 2001 11:35:43 +0200 |
Les énergies se mobilisent au Portugal derrière la FSF Europe, en
étroite coopération avec le chapitre français de la FSFE.
[ seule version disponible, en anglais ]
url http://france.fsfeurope.org/news/article2001-06-11-02.en.html
Activity in fsfe-portugal list
[ Report prepared by members of address@hidden list.
Author : Frederico S. Muñoz, modified by Jaime E. Villate ]
June 7th, 2001
The members of the list fsfe-portugal have taken the first steps
towards the goal of forming a support association for a future
Chapter of the [2]FSFE in Portugal.
From the early moments when the FSFE created its public mailing
lists, some Portuguese list members have been present in the
discussion (Klaus Schilling, Frederico Muñoz); to give an example,
Portuguese was the first language in which the [3]FSFE Press
Releases were translated (F. Muñoz) - and are still being
translated and sent to the local media - apart from the 3
'official' languages; after an initial time were inertia won, it
became apparent that a specialized list to deal with the number of
Portuguese-speaking members was necessary, since there was much
interest, among many subscribers, to form a Portuguese national
Chapter of the FSFE; around April the address@hidden
mailing list was set up by Loic Dachary who has encouraged us
to follow the good example of the [5]French Chapter of the FSFE
and [6]APRIL.
The list began with around 12 people, and its first objective was
to allow its members to get to know each other better; soon enough
the discussion about the legal things needed to fulfill the goal
begun, with several members already experienced in forming
associations (Ruben Mendes, F. Muñoz, Hugo Nogueira) stepping up
and advising on some initial decisions that would have to be made.
Jaime Villate has served as a liaison with the FSF and the FSFE;
with several years of participation in free software in general and
his recent contributions to the GNU Project and personal
acquaintance with some people in the FSF - not to mention the deep
involvement in several national GNU/Linux websites and free
software related activities - Jaime coordinates the efforts of the
Portuguese group and has been influential in bringing more people
to the project and in helping the FSFE in several ways.
One of the first tasks was to help with the creation of a new site
for the FSFE (J. Villate, Loic Dachary), in time for the public
announcement of the creation of the FSFE; soon after, the members
of the fsfe-portugal list undertook the translation of the FSFE
website into Portuguese, and that was in a sense a proving ground
for our ability to work together (João Miguel Neves coordinated the
effort, with R. Mendes, H. Nogueira, F. Muñoz). It can gladly be
said that such ability is present in a high degree, since most of
the site was quickly translated into Portuguese, with the members
sharing opinions and information about the translation of several
terms, use of the XHTML scheme and [7]Savannah, etc. Not only
that but some members are also taking up tasks in the FSFE website.
New members are joining in a steady rate, partly due to the effort
made to get the FSFE noticed by a larger audiency by releasing
several messages and news to national websites; if the FSFE was
largely unknown in Portugal some months ago, that situation has
changed - and is changing more as time passes. There are roughly 30
people subscribed to the list now, and an IRC channel (#fsfe-pt) on
the OpenProjects Network was created (Matti Särkisitta) to allow
more real-time contact between the members.
One important step will be made in the 9th of June, when the
[22]first meeting will take place in Oporto; this meeting is being
prepared and anticipated from some time now and will provide a
privileged occasion to discuss things in more detail and to meet
personally. On the agenda is the discussion of the legal status and
name of the organization, distribution of tasks, a general
reflection about the FSFE and our collaboration with it and a small
key-signing party.
In conclusion, the initial steps to facilitate the participation of
FSFE in Portugal have been taken, and the creation of a support
association is underway; after this first meeting more work is to
be distributed and we expect to see more members joining as we
spread the word. After someone from our group is accredited by the
FSFE core team, it is safe to assume that there will exists a real
possibility of having a FSFE Chapter Portugal in the short/medium
term; among GNU members, Debian developers, people involved in
setting up some of the foremost national free software websites,
people involved in several ways with the free software ideals for
years and newcomers with a great will to get the work done, we have
a good human potential to build this reality.
The future looks bright :)
References
1. http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-portugal/
2. http://www.fsfeurope.org/
3. http://www.fsfeurope.org/press/
4. http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-portugal/
5. http://france.fsfeurope.org/
6. http://www.april.org/
7. http://savannah.gnu.org/
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Frederic Couchet Tel: 06 60 68 89 31 / 01 49 22 67 89
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