Re: How FSFE is organised

2019-10-22 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 21. October 2019 07.20.49 Florian Snow wrote: > > Paul Boddie writes: > > I am sorry for the confusion here. In fact, I wasn't referring to the > > FSFE with my remark, but the following crowdfunding campaign promoted > > on this mailing list four years ago by a FSFE General Assembly me

Re: How FSFE is organised

2019-10-21 Thread Florian Snow
Hi Bernhard, "Bernhard E. Reiter" writes: > The "VIP track" is called "volunteer". :) Really nicely said. It took me half a paragraph to express the same idea. Happy hacking! Florian ___ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://list

Re: How FSFE is organised

2019-10-21 Thread Florian Snow
Hi Paul, Paul Boddie writes: > The problem with this from the perspective of an outsider, who is or > has been supporting a community-oriented organisation like FSFE, is > that it doesn't give me anything more than "indicators". I agree that we should be more transparent about the Legal Networ

Re: How FSFE is organised

2019-10-21 Thread Florian Snow
Hi Paul, Paul Boddie writes: > I am sorry for the confusion here. In fact, I wasn't referring to the > FSFE with my remark, but the following crowdfunding campaign promoted > on this mailing list four years ago by a FSFE General Assembly member: > > https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/roundcube-n

Re: How FSFE is organised

2019-10-17 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday 16. October 2019 16.24.37 Harald Welte wrote: > > Not only is there a mixture of different positions and agendas, but it's > also a mixture of people with [formal] legal background with people from > the developer communities, including some very high-profile developers from > the Lin

Re: How FSFE is organised

2019-10-16 Thread Harald Welte
I'm both a participant of the FSFE legal network since its very first incarnation as well as a member of the FSFE legal team. I've also been sitting on the programme committee of the annual legal network conference. I am not a formal member of FSFE GA, I don't represent FSFE formally, but I do

Re: How FSFE is organised

2019-10-11 Thread Paul Boddie
On Thursday 10. October 2019 18.33.57 Carsten Agger wrote: > On 10/10/19 2:04 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: > > Are we left to assume that whatever consensus was reached at this event is > > the reason for the FSFE being indifferent about possibly the most > > significant licence compliance case in Europe

Re: How FSFE is organised

2019-10-11 Thread Carsten Agger
On 10/10/19 2:04 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: > Are we left to assume that whatever consensus was reached at this event is > the > reason for the FSFE being indifferent about possibly the most significant > licence compliance case in Europe in recent years? (One that was only > "settled" by the defe

Re: How FSFE is organised

2019-10-10 Thread Paul Boddie
On Thursday 10. October 2019 10.45.48 Bernhard E. Reiter wrote: > Am Mittwoch 09 Oktober 2019 15:16:23 schrieb Paul Boddie: > > I am sorry for the confusion here. In fact, I wasn't referring to the FSFE > > with my remark > > Thanks for clarifying. I think it is clear that FSFE volunteers have oth

Re: How FSFE is organised

2019-10-10 Thread Bernhard E. Reiter
Am Mittwoch 09 Oktober 2019 15:16:23 schrieb Paul Boddie: > I am sorry for the confusion here. In fact, I wasn't referring to the FSFE > with my remark Thanks for clarifying. I think it is clear that FSFE volunteers have other professional lives and need to earn their living. Many of them are stil

Re: How FSFE is organised (was: Organisation democracy)

2019-10-10 Thread Paul Boddie
On Tuesday 8. October 2019 17.44.02 Bernhard E. Reiter wrote: > > Am Freitag 27 September 2019 18:00:28 schrieb Paul Boddie: > > > > Admittedly, the rest of us don't tend to do things like park $10 > > destined for improving Free Software in a bank account for four years > > This is book-keep

How FSFE is organised (was: Organisation democracy)

2019-10-09 Thread Bernhard E. Reiter
Hi Paul, Am Freitag 27 September 2019 18:00:28 schrieb Paul Boddie: > It seemed to me when I last looked at any minutes from FSFE meetings that a > lot of people eligible to vote were either delegating their votes to the > leadership or just not voting at all. those formal meetings of the associ