Hi Fabio, ~ Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists [2019-05-12 19:44 +0200]: > i'm supporting Pirate Party (in Italy) for EU Election, i'm a strong > free software advocate, and in the common european pirate party program > > (the same program in 9 EU states), there's a clear commitment on Free > Software and the use/production of Free Software by Public > Administration (100% in line with the campaign public code, public > money).
That reads good, thanks for the pointer! It is motivating to see that more and more parties and decision-makers are picking up our goals and arguments for Public Money, Public Code and Free Software in general. > I would love to see FSFE to support that point of the program of PP > publicly, calling for all free software communities across europe to > support that trough their own communities. > > https://wiki.ppeu.net/doku.php?id=programme:ceep2019#free_software > > Is that something that has been considered? One of the FSFE's principles is to be non-partisan. That is easier said than done, because at the same time we don't want to generally leave positive (or negative) developments of political parties and actors uncommented. However, asking our community to support a specific party because of a positive position towards Free Software will most probably cross the line. Therefore, I am afraid that we cannot follow your suggestion. But since we sensitise people about Free Software and the importance of publicly funded software to be public code, it is likely that they will also consider parties' positions on this topic during an election. Best, Max PS: For similar requests, we recommend contacting us directly using cont...@fsfe.org. That makes it easy to distribute your request directly to the people who know most about a specific topic. -- Max Mehl - Programme Manager - Free Software Foundation Europe Contact and information: https://fsfe.org/about/mehl | @mxmehl Become a supporter of software freedom: https://fsfe.org/join _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion This mailing list is covered by the FSFE's Code of Conduct. All participants are kindly asked to be excellent to each other: https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct
