Tom Chance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Given the circumstances I think now is a good time to bow out. But I would > also suggest that we formally fold FC-UK,
OK. > redirecting people's energy and > projects into organisations with more momentum such as ORG (copyright > extensions -> Release the Music), Not OK. ORG: Hierarchy of London/SE-centric usual suspects AFAICT. > the OKFN (PD Burn is joint already), Seems offline from here. Can't remember what it does. > the FSF (DRM -> Defective by Design), Undemocratic, opaque and troublesome when they stray outside programs. How about FSFE? > iCommons (for CC work), Is anti-commercialism still embedded in their constitution? > the FCF (where Rob > and I intend to take our free culture 4 students work), OK so far, as far as I can see (heh, see, geddit? its web site is hard to read because of low contrast: please don't set text colour on the main body), but it's still young and starting up. > Libre Society (for discussions & debates) and so on. No opinion. Maybe Oekenux worth linking too? Personally, since moving across the country, I've been putting more time into informing cooperatives and third-sector groups and making much more progress with much less stress than trying to make any progress together with the usual suspects. While some activists are very keen and well-informed about very specific things, like TPM for example, many are intolerant or inconsiderate about disabilities, commerce, i18nism and various other topics which I'm involved in. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Somerset, England. Work/Laborejo: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ IRC/Jabber/SIP: on request/peteble. _______________________________________________ fc-uk-discuss mailing list fc-uk-discuss@lists.okfn.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/fc-uk-discuss
