[1913] in comp.os.os2.announce archive
New Organization: Free Software Union
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Braddock C. Gaskill)
Sat Sep 28 17:17:49 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 28 Sep 1996 20:59:33 GMT
From: braddock@braddock.com (Braddock C. Gaskill)
Reply-To: braddock@braddock.com (Braddock C. Gaskill)
Reply-to: braddock@braddock.com (Braddock C. Gaskill)
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Free Software Union
"Free Software Lovers Unite!"
http://www.jagunet.com/~braddock/fslu/org
This is a call to all Free Software developers, users, and enthusiasts to join
a novel new organization that could act as a unifying center for the Free
Software community!
The FSU is a democratic organization dedicated to the Free Software community.
It provides all users, developers, and enthusiasts with full-voice membership
in a voting decision making body. It channels resources, manpower, and
community feedback for voter endorsed project implementation.
The FSU has been particularly inspired by the speed, effectiveness, and
organization of the Linux Kernel developers. We hope to spread that
development model to all middleware and end large-scale application
development, among other things, giving real, large scale application suites to
Linux, FreeBSD, OS-2, and other OSes.
The FSU gives developers guarantee of wide acceptance and support by providing
guidelines and tools for development to produce consistent and inter-operable
software, and volunteer man-power recruiting assistance for large endorsed
projects.
The FSU gives users the ability to participate in the future of Free Software,
and to find existing and future Free Software solutions for their needs.
The FSU gives enthusiasts the ability to actively participate in work on Free
Software projects, and provide resources and assistance to projects (such as
web page maintenance, design, coding, publicity, documentation, etc).
Some of the projects that the FSU is currently considering is the adoption of
CORBA or SOM, licensed porting/re-implementation of OpenDoc, a "Free Software
Map" database of all known free software projects (a superset of LSM), and much
more!
By supplementing the private resources of the Free Software Foundation with the
resources, man-power, knowledge, and feedback from the community at large, the
FSU and FSF together could promise a very bright future for Free Software!
FSU Founder/Contact: Jan Vicherek <honza@ied.com>
FSU Mailing List Posts: fslu@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Find out more and join at: http://www.jagunet.com/~braddock/fslu/org
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