[Fsfe-ie] supporting FSFE's Fellowship

Adam Moran adam at webarchitects.co.uk
Fri Nov 18 13:04:00 CET 2005


This is tangential ...

    http://www.pledgebank.com/rights

... but seems to have worked well

    http://www.pledgebank.com/rights/info

I'm unsure where this requisition was placed other than here:

http://www.xenoclast.org/free-sklyarov-uk/2005-July/006108.html


Justin Mason wrote:
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> My theory: 120 euros per year is just too much money.
> 
> If you're personally very committed to the cause, it may be worth it; but
> most people are simply not *that* committed.
> 
> Even EFF allows membership at $25, and their average membership fee is
> apparently $65.  That's a lot lower.
> 
> (As for my excuse -- I haven't been living in Europe for several years
> now.  maybe when I get back. but then I'll have a wedding to fund, and
> justifying a 3-figure donation to the fiancee under those circumstances
> isn't so easy ;)
> 
> - --j.
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> Ciaran O'Riordan writes:
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>>So far, 3 people in Ireland have joined FSFE's fellowship. 
>>
>>(as far as I know, that includes me.)
>>
>>My mails to fsfe-ie and to ILUG in March, and my talk at the ILUG AGM, all
>>seem to have resulted in no sign-ups each.
>>
>>So what went wrong?
>>
>>Is it that people assume that others will join, and put it off - so the
>>remedy would be to inform the mailing lists again and tell them the numbers?
>>
>>I know that's what I've just done here, and I do encourage people on this
>>list to sign up since that's how FSFE's work gets funded - but I'm
>>interested to know what to do when contacting other lists.
>>
>>All suggestions and comments would be welcome.
>>
>>I made this page, which needs updating, but it might have some useful info:
>>http://ciaran.compsoc.com/fsfe-fellowship.html
>>
>>-- 
>>Ciarán O'Riordan, ___________/        Join the Fellowship of FSFE to
>>http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ _/ support the campaigns against software
>>___________________________/      patents and IPRED2 http://fsfe.org
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