Hi all,
Alcove had the idea to launch a "Why we speak about Free Software" campaign that we considered to be a pretty good idea, so I prepared a text for it that you'll find attached below.
The FSF has agreed to this statement (Richard gave his okay), so has Alcove. This means we have a sound basis to run this campaign. Alcove wanted it done fast and I saw no major reason to delay it, so release date for it is
Monday, September 10th
which means it is not yet officially out and I'd like to ask you to wait publicising the campaign until then.
I have begun preparing a web site for it at
http://fsfeurope.org/documents/whyfs.en.html
that might take a little while to go online (I just checked it in).
There are several things I could think of that would be very useful to do to make this campaign a success:
1. Talk to other companies that might be interested in supporting this campaign from launch-time. The more companies support it from the beginning, the better.
2. We could make web-site buttons saying "I speak about Free Software" "We speak about Free Software" "Free Software - because freedom matters" or so that people could put on their web sites as links to this campaign in order to show support and make it more well-known.
3. Translate the text into other languages - although it is possible that some last-minute changes will still be made.
4. Read over the text to make sure it doesn't contain embarassing mistakes.
5. Anything else you can think of that would be useful.
Regards, Georg