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