Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
MJ Ray <mjr@...> writes:
it would be nice to see where the EUR120/year's going to go...
With my time [...]
Sorry, it wasn't meant to be an anecdote request. I guess I should have written "there's no clear way of tracking the money from the fellowship site."
FSFE's funds are more transperant than most NGOs: http://fsfeurope.org/about/funds/funds.en.html
Are you sure? Most associations I'm involved with present their accounts in their annual report, so I'm surprised that 2005 is still unavailable. Maybe that says more about how important clear accounting is to me than most NGOs, though.
FSFE does have more information more readily available than many, though. Would the 2005 and 2006 accounts be available on request? (if the FSFE accounts are published to April, like many)
[...] If you see low hanging fruit, make a suggestion.f
Link http://fsfeurope.org/about/funds/funds.en.html and the coming year's budget from the money request page.
- No support for FSF*'s non-free-software actions (FDL and so on)
Personally, I'm also not a fan of the GFDL, but I think it's disproportionate to black ball FSFE's work because of this.
So we disagree. FDL is an increasing pain in the backside for my work. It hurts my bottom line, as it were.
RMS said a year and a half ago that GFDL would be updated. [...] http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/6019 Eben Moglen says that a draft of the next version of the GFDL is almost ready [...]
When it changes, then things change. Not before. I've made that mistake in the past. FSF does nothing to do with FDL on time. As it's not really much to do with free software, that's understandable.
- No personal data for sites without a privacy policy or P3P support.
Hmm, seems like an easily correctable oversight. I've raised it now: http://fsfe.org/en/forums/fellowship_smoothers/privacy_policy
Let us know what happens. It seemed a bit odd for a group aimed at "the spearhead of those who are aware of issues of privacy, security and digital self-determination" not to have anything like ol' Auntie Beeb's http://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy/
Thanks,
- No support for FSF*'s non-free-software actions (FDL and so
on)
Personally, I'm also not a fan of the GFDL, but I think it's disproportionate to black ball FSFE's work because of this.
So we disagree. FDL is an increasing pain in the backside for my work. It hurts my bottom line, as it were.
The GPL is also a pain in the backside for many.
On 13-Sep-2006, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
- No support for FSF*'s non-free-software actions (FDL and so
on)
Personally, I'm also not a fan of the GFDL, but I think it's disproportionate to black ball FSFE's work because of this.
So we disagree. FDL is an increasing pain in the backside for my work. It hurts my bottom line, as it were.
The GPL is also a pain in the backside for many.
MJ Ray is giving his reason for not (monetarily) supporting the FSFE. Those inconvenienced by the GPL will probably not support FSFE either. I'm baffled as to why you raise this point.