Hi, On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 2:30 AM, Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> wrote: > Do any other candidates want to state plans to intentionally spread > the ideas of the free software movement?
This is not precise enough to qualify as a plan, but it sets the general direction I'd like to follow. With the surveillance stories in the last few years, the general public has become more aware of the importance of privacy. This is a domain where free software can really shine and we should use that as one of the vectors for our advocacy. Two talks that I find very inspirational in this regard are "More secure with less security" by Stefan Walter [0] and the keynote Jacob Appelbaum gave at GUADEC 2012. They both talk about how we should be helping the users by providing more security while making them have less to seek it actively. The implementation of such ideas is of course a technical matter and the board doesn't have much to do with it. What the board can do is facilitate it and promote it. We should reach out to people working on freedom related projects (like Jacob and Tor to take an earlier example) and discuss how we can integrate with them, and how they would like us to work with them. The board can extend an invitation for a talk/keynote at GUADEC that will hopefully foster activity around a given topic in the community afterwards. That can also take the form of a simple email discussion, or a hackfest where GNOME people would meet with people from another project to work on the integration. Privacy is the most prominent one, but not the only domain where this applies. Free culture is another example that comes to mind, and we could come up with many others. We should reach out to free content creators, show them how our platform can help them produce their content and publish it. Last but not least, when reaching out to the general public, we should show them how this integration benefits them. [0] http://videos.guadec.org/2013/More%20secure%20less%20security/ -- Alexandre Franke _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
