[diskussion] Microsofts nya hot.

[Jonas Oberg]

Jeremiah Foster wrote:

> - It needs more openness. Currently FLOSS is dominated by groups like FSFE and 
>   the Swedish Linux Foreningen. These groups are closed - especially the FSFE. 

I doubt this is really the case. This seems akin to saying that politics
is closed since not anyone can be in the government!

>   While the FSFE has two board members from Sweden representing a significant 
>   portion of the board no one knows how they got there. Are they elected? What 
>   is the process?

What you're talking about is only one small portion of what constitutes
the FSFE. The FSFE is made up of all our Fellows, all of our teams (web
team, translators, booth volunteers, etc), as well as the core team and
the general assembly.

The general assembly represents the legal skeleton for the FSFE and is
there to give the organisation stability and legal standing. Some high
level strategic discussions are held here that require explicit
confidentiality. For instance, we would never have gotten as far as we
have in the anti-trust case against Microsoft by the European
Commission, if Microsoft would have had access to our strategic discussions.

To be in the GA, you basically have to show that you're in this for the
long term (10+ years) and have gained trust from all of the other GA
members.

All of this is purely academic though: there are so many ways to be
involved with the FSFE that I don't dare try to list them all. Some
teams are more inclusive than others, it all depends on what kind of
work they do.

We also have our associate organisations, which are usually very
inclusive indeed, and we often seek the consensus of our associate
organisations for some decisions. Unfortunately, there's no associate
organisation in Sweden yet, and I'm not sure if there's sufficient
interest to found one. At least noone have ever told me that they wanted
to found one :-)


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Jonas Öberg
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