[FSUG-Bangalore] Join FSF-India TODAY

Nagarjuna G. nagarjun at gnowledge.org
Sat May 17 10:23:21 IST 2008


We will be updating the non-functional fellowship application on the
site during this week.  please bear with us.  We will inform the
community once it is functional.

Nagarjuna


On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Vikram Vincent
<vincentvikram at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> Having chanced upon Benjamin "Mako" Hill's blog, I'm using his appeal to
> appeal to you all to join as Associate Members of FSF-India.
>
> Associate Fellowship of FSF India http://www.gnu.org.in/fellowship
>
> "Now is the time to join and give to Free Software Foundation. 2008 is going
> to be extraordinarily important year for free software.
>
> Eben Moglen likes to quote Gandhi's "first they ignore you, then they laugh
> at you, then they fight you, then you win" progression when describing the
> free software movement. As I pointed out when I joined the FSF board, we're
> beginning to see powerful interests fighting free software. It's going to
> increase in the next few years. Things will probably get a lot uglier for
> free software before they get better. We can win but things are far from
> settled. The FSF is the front-line organization in this fight and we need a
> robust and proactive foundation, and an active and involved membership, if
> we're going to win.
>
> Here are the issues that I'm going to pushing the FSF to pursue in the next
> year."
>
> Read more at Mako's blog http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20071214-00
>
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> Vikram Vincent
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