Russell McOrmond wrote:
I'm feeling underwhelmed by the response. What we need to find is
people with the energy to put some focus on this. FSFC has my
support, but unfortunately I can only give support to someone else and
not do it myself (I'm focused on digital-copyright.ca ,
GOSLINGcommunity.org and related stuff).
For what it's worth, I am willing to help and to participate. However, I
don't think I'm fit or able to do it myself either. For one, I'm still a
student (third year computer science at UofT). I'd be happy to
collaborate with others to get something going though.
If you check the archives at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/fsfc-discuss/ you will notice that
the discussion of past attempts at getting charitable status. There
seems to be the suggestion that without the charitable status there is
no point to there being an FSF chapter in Canada. I don't agree, and
believe that there is more than just the GNU project (IE: funding of
software development) that is relevant for an FSF Canada to do. I
hear of FSF India hosting conferences, being active in public policy
work, and so-on.
It is (or should be) clear that the policy work needed in Canada is
very different than the policy work needed in the USA.
I agree that there is much more to be done outside of funding software
development. I think there is still an important role to play without
charitable status.
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