[wilhelmtux-discussion] Re: World Summit on the Information Society - FSF at WSIS?

[Alex Schroeder]

I will send mail to RMS and ask him about it.

Alex.


"Claude Almansi" <claude.almansi at bluewin.ch> writes:

> Hi Sascha
>
> FSF isn't in the WSIS list of participants either, I just checked.
> Chantal also sent the e-mail with the worrying text about Open Source
> being slashed from the official WSIS documents
> (http://www.worldsummit2003.de/en/web/237.htm ) to gnu at gnu.org . Now I
> wouldn't feel serious contacting them from Outlook to ask them to join
> WSIS. Nevertheless, I also forwarded Chantal's e-mail to 2 journalists -
> one from Nepal, one from Zambia - who were present at the
> UNESCO-for_WSIS roundtable in Lugano this week-end. Because developping
> countries have insisted several times on the importance of Open Source
> Software during PrepCom2 for WSIS in february.
>
> So for these countries, it would be very important if FSF were present.
> Would someone with more serious open-source credentials than me write
> them, please?
>
> Claude
>
> Claude Almansi
> Coordinatrice in/formazione
> www.adisi.ch 
> v. Cantonale 22
> 6532 Castione
> Switzerland
> 091 829 04 51
> 076 405 85 69
>
> PS - Chantal, je m'emmeles les pinceaux ou le texte
> http://www.worldsummit2003.de/en/web/237.htm n'a pas encore ete envoye a
> la plateforme comunica-ch.net?
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : wilhelmtux-discussion-bounces at wilhelmtux.ch
> [mailto:wilhelmtux-discussion-bounces at wilhelmtux.ch] De la part de
> Sascha Brawer
> Envoye : mardi 18 mars 2003 15:09
> A : team at fsfeurope.org; gnu at gnu.org; discussion at fsfeurope.org
> Cc : xdrudis at tinet.org; Loic Dachary; Wilhelm Tux; Imran William Smith;
> Frederic Couchet
> Objet : [wilhelmtux-discussion] Re: World Summit on the Information
> Society
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> many thanks to everyone for replying to my questions with regards to
> WSIS, the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society in
> Geneva, December 2003.
>
> To summarize: Free Software proponents are in contact with several local
> WSIS preparation groups.  Also, some local NGOs, whose declared goals
> include the propagation of Free Software, have registered with the
> summit.  However, unless I'm overlooking something, the Free Software
> Foundation has not officially been present at any meetings so far.
>
> I cannot speak for the FSF, of course, but I really think that it would
> be a pity to miss this opportunity.  At least in my personal opinion,
> the Free Software Foundation should be represented at the summit.
>
> Does anyone know how to make this happen?
>
> -- Sascha Brawer, brawer at dandelis.ch
>    http://www.dandelis.ch/people/brawer/
>
>
>
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