Hello,
Here is the (overdue) Finnish report:
- How has your team developed over the past 12 months? Did you gain or lose members, and did you gain or lose active people?
We lost one member, so we're down to 19. I have fsfe-fi@ subscription stats since Oct 20, 2010 and they show an increase of subscribers from 50 to 52.
- Please give a brief summary of your activities over the past 12 months, since June 2010.
Some meetings with politicans, messaging by email and facebook, giving advice on FOSS related stuff. Building relations to other FOSS groups in Finland. Attending COSS board meetings with the FSFE hat on. One small press releases without major media break through.
I've written more detailed reports to team@ and I'm sorry I don't have to summarise them now. The main things are though the city council initiatives in Helsinki and Tampere, which will lead to OpenOffice (or LibreOffice) pilots in both cities.
- What plans do you have for upcoming activities in the next 3-6 months?
Two Fellowship meetings planned on 2011-06-01 and 2011-06-13. The idea is to activate the Fellows in Finland to participate - the current country team can't do everything on it's own.
- What ideas do you have for activities that you'd like to undertake?
Depends on the outcome of those Fellowship meetings. At the moment me and Martin von Willebrand are engaged in working with politicians and administration to influence procurement etc. OpenOffice cases in the two biggest cities in Finland can be seen as an advancement. We'll do what we can to make sure they turn out positive for FOSS.
- Where do you have Fellowship meetings? How often?
We had some meetings in Tampere last year, but this year we so far have had only one very small meeting. That was in Helsinki last week (no meetings in Tampere this year).
- What are your plans to enlarge the Fellowship in your country?
Have more meetings, activate people and see how it goes. Maybe some PR or campaign the get more visibility. We should also promote our own work, to show that supporting FSFE is useful.
I've been talking about improving the Fellowship join page for long, and I've even made a prototype (http://otto.kekalainen.net/FSFE/join.html), but I don't have time to actually implement it. Ask Matthias for details. Please make everything you can to lower the barriers for joining mailing lists and joining the fellowship. More Fellows is a priority, that will lead to all kinds of other good things.
- what help and support do you expect / need / wish for from the European hub?
We would like that a share of the Fellowship payments get targeted into Finnish activities, and so far we've got all the funding we've asked for, so the situation is OK.
- what would you like to do as a team in order to support the European hub of FSFE?
We'll report about our activities and the general FOSS landscape in Finland as a minimum. Provide feedback. Maybe help out with small things, like website usability etc. It all depends on how much we have resources to put on FSFE, mainly time.
- as coordinators, what are your personal plans for the coming year? Do you think that you will be able spend more or less time on FSFE activities?
I guess all of us are quite busy with our professional life. On the other hand, our professional life is free software. The amount of work we have done so far is the best estimate on how we'll do in the future.
- in which FSFE campaigns (if any) has your team engaged? E.g. DFD, pdfreaders...
None. There was a Fellow in Turku who I almost converted into writing a press release about DFD and having a small event, but the then backed out. I know there are many who'd like to support us, let's hope meetings we'll help channel that will into concrete action plans and execution.