[FSF-WG] need for Full timers, was Re: [Fsf-friends] MS' influence in academia

[Mahesh T. Pai]

Nagarjuna G. said on Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 12:12:02PM +0530,:

> Take a look at our website.   The site doesnt look at the activities
 > that FSF  india is  carrying out.  Feb  we had  several activities.
 > some of them were very  impressive.  They are not listed as events.
 > The details of those events  are not recorded on the website.  Most
 > of this only due to the absence of one responsible person who takes
 > note of all the events and  creates content and sends it to Dileep.
 > Dileep does his  job very promptly, but content  creation is a very
 > important job.  Whether  paid or unpaid we need  someone to do this
 > job.

IIRC, we  do have a -volunteers  list. But mailing lists  alone do not
help.  Several  activities are  planned  outside formal  communication
channels.

 > Several  events  are  happening  all  over  the  country.  Chennai,
 > Vellore, Mumbai,  Puna, Delhi, Ahmedabad,  Calcutta, Kharagpur, not
 > to mention the events in  Kerala.  Why should they get reflected at
 > the site.

Organisers of such events ought to have given a feed back / report of
such events to one of the fsf forums.

AFAICT,  only  RMS's  visit   was  discussed;  detailed  planning  and
executionw was done outside of the lists. 

 > We also  need volunteers to take responsibility  to manufacture and
 > dispatch  goodies like  Tshirts,  stickers, posters,  documentation
 > CDs, ebooks etc to people.  And send them to each place so that the
 > organizers find it handy.

Please  post  this requirement  on  a public  list.   I  am sure  that
competent people will come forward.

And, does  `manufacture and ...' mean  that the volunteer  has to make
the initial investment??

 > We want a coordinator for FSF, whether paid or not. 

It  is  for  the board  to  decide  whether  we have  the  (financial)
resources to afford  a paid co-ordinator.  If we  cannot afford a paid
one we should go public asking  for an unpaid co-ordinator.  If we can
afford a  paid co-ordinator,  we certainly should  go public  with the
offer.
 
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