[FSFE PR][EN] FKF and FSFE teaming up: FKF official associate
organisation of FSF Europe
Joachim Jakobs
press at fsfeurope.org
Tue Feb 14 17:44:08 CET 2006
FKF and FSFE teaming up: FKF official associate organisation of FSF Europe
14 February 2006
Madrid/Hamburg
The Free Knowledge Foundation / Fundación Conocimiento Libre (FKF) and
Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) are proud to announce their new
official associate status, working together for the promotion and
protection of Free Software in Spain.
Following a decision at the last foundation board meeting of FKF to
co-operate more closely with FSF Europe, as well as a decision by the
members of the FSFE Team, both organisations are delighted to announce
their official co-operation. The FKF is the first associate organisation
of the FSFE in Spain, a country with a strong Free Software community.
"Our adversaries are usually multi-national groups, funded heavily by
multi-national companies. If we are to defend Free Software and all
that is related to it against their encroachments, then we need to be
equally present," explains Georg Greve, President of Free Software
Foundation Europe. "That is why FSFE started out as a multi-national
organisation from the outset, building teams across cultural and
language barriers to work together to further Free Software. We are very
happy to welcome another group to our large family."
"While we are focused on Free Knowledge, Free Software, Free Standards
and Intellectual Wealth dissemination, Free Software is at the centre
of our work, as the initiating and inspiring phenomenon of this new
way of understanding knowledge.", says Pablo Machón, President of
FKF. "The FSFE has always been an inspiration for our work. Becoming
an associated organisation of FSFE is, thus, a natural consequence of
sharing ideals, a long-term vocation, and working together towards
the same goal."
About the Free Knowledge Foundation (FKF)
The Free Knowledge Foundation is a non-profit organisation based in
Spain and focused on Free Knowledge, Free Software, Free Standards
and Intellectual Wealth dissemination. The FKF promotes the concept
of knowledge as being publicly and freely accessible for both usage
and contribution.
www.libre.org
About the Free Software Foundation Europe
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe) is a charitable
non-governmental organisation dedicated to all aspects of Free
Software in Europe. Access to software determines who may participate
in a digital society. Therefore the freedoms to use, copy, modify and
redistribute software - as described in the Free Software definition -
allow equal participation in the information age. Creating awareness
of these issues, securing Free Software politically and legally, and
giving people freedom by supporting development of Free Software are
central issues of the FSF Europe, which was founded in 2001 as the
European sister organisation of the Free Software Foundation in the
United States.
www.fsfeurope.org
Contact
FSF Europe:
Georg C. F. Greve <greve at fsfeurope.org>
phone: +49-40-23809080
fax: +49-40-23809081
FKF:
Pablo Machón <pablo at libre.org>
phone / fax: +34 91 8445346
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