Hi!
The notes from yesterday's meeting are now available at http://fellowship.se/wiki/Projekt/friepost/Protokoll. The most important were summarised in Stefan's previous e-mail.
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Stefan Kangas wrote:
For now, the by-laws will have to do.
Don't forget to look through the suggestion of statues on the wiki, http://fellowship.se/wiki/Projekt/friepost/Stadgar, and also the suggestion for agenda, http://fellowship.se/wiki/Projekt/friepost/%C3%85rsm%C3%B6te.
There is a suggestion for a letter below that I think is suitable for spreading this invitation wider. Please voice any objections, suggestions or other thoughts.
Comments and questions follows.
Otherwise, I will send this to:
- diskussion@lists.se.linux.org
- Serengeti-listan
- fosskalendern.se
- any other places I did not think of?
Doesn't Piratpartiet have a sending list? they should be interested.
#### INVITATION LETTER FOLLOWS ####
Subject: November 4, 2010 -- Welcome to founding meeting of the Free E-mail Association
I am proud to announce the founding of a new association: The Free E-mail Association (Den fria e-postföreningen).
Will the name not be /Fripost, den fria e-postföreningen/?
We will have a founding meeting November 4, 2010 18:00 at Gnutiken.
Add the address: Övre Husargatan 27, 41314 Göteborg,
Please see the suggestions for by-laws on the website:
http://fellowship.se/wiki/Projekt/friepost
We need to elect: a chairman (ordförande), a board (styrelse), an accountant (revisor) and a nominating committee (valberedning).
I suggest that we use, "president" and "auditor". A /chairman/ is more of an meeting officer.
We want to create an alternative to privately controlled e-mail services like Google or Yahoo mail where the users' freedom and integrity will always come second to the service providers interests. More concretely, this means we will collaborate around and run a number of mail servers.
-> "With privately controlled e-mail services, like Gmail or Yahoo mail, the users' freedom and integrity always come second to the service providers interests. We want to create an alternative. More concretely, this means that we will collaborate around and run a number of mail servers."
The associations email service will be free as in free speech, but not as in free beer. Quite the opposite; we will be funded primarily by our membership fees. The association will be democratic and the e-mail service as transparent as possible. To guarantee this, we must be independent from any third parties.
"Quite the opposite" -> "In fact the opposite holds" "funded" -> "financed" "democratic and" -> "democratic, and"
We will suggest a membership fee of 300 SEK per year. This means that we need 50 members to reach 15,000 SEK, which is our estimate of what we need before we can begin doing the initial investments. Specifically, we need to buy storage and pay for hosting. The rest can be done by using already donated or otherwise borrowed hardware. We are already running temporary systems that will only need a tad bit more configuring and testing before we are ready to allow the members to start using them.
"begin doing" -> "begin with"
Everyone is free to become a member at the meeting, and everyone who is a member is electable for the board. There will be a nomination process during the meeting, and the elections will be done by a secret ballot.
-> "and elections will be made ballots" or "and the elections will be secret"
To achieve a sufficient level of reliability, we need to do some investments in hardware and hosting. This means we need members. The problem is that some people might be less willing to join until everything is up and running.
However, we must not let ourselves be trapped by this deadlock. We need to do the opposite of waiting around: now is the time to act.
-> "take action"
We invite you to join us and share our vision of a user controlled email service. All interested parties, whether they know for sure they want to join or not, are welcome to our founding meeting and to visit our presentation at FSCONS.
What better place than here? What better time than now?
-> "What better place than here, and hat better time than now is there?
-------------------------------- Gustav Eek Volrat Thamsgatan 12, läg 6551 412 60 Göteborg tfn: 031-24 55 86, 0709-58 85 93 e-post: gustaveek@student.gu.se
PS. Nästa kritisk massa: 29 oktober, http://gothenburgcriticalmass.blogspot.com. DS.
PPS. Presstödsförändringar gör att FRIA tidningen behöver prenumeranter för att kunna fortleva. Jag hjälper till med att värva fyra innan oktobers slut: tre månader, 93 kr. Fråga gärna! DDS.