On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 22:52 +0100, Graham Seaman wrote: > > (Re: FSFE-UK) > Except it's not hosted by the FSFE, it's hosted by the FSF, as are an > extremely large number of other lists, many of which seem to have no > particular relation to the FSF other than mutual sympathy and co-operation.
Oh, I totally agree, and in many ways FSFE-UK is basically an AFFS list - the aims are very similar. > But if this is the FSFE's UK list, is the AFFS the FSFE's UK branch? If > not, does the FSFE have a UK branch? AFFS is the FSFE's sole UK associate. AFFS is independent from FSFE, and is not (nor would be) FSFE-UK. There is no UK branch at the moment, but I think/hope there will be one in the not too distant future. > No. I don't want to be in an organisation which communicates with its > members. I want to be in an organisation where the members communicate > with one another (and if necessary give instructions to a committee > which does the boring but necessary stuff). Ah, I'm probably asking a slightly different question to what you're answering :) I have no problems with the idea of members communicating, that's clearly a good thing! Currently, when AFFS asks members to join, we promise that we'll send them newsletters and official announcements (mainly invites to the AGM), so there is a responsibility on the part of the AFFS ctte to have a communication channel to the members. The newsletter is effectively an announce list (although it's technically not setup as a mailing list), AGM invites are a slightly different matter (they're snail mail - we don't actually have e-mail addresses for all our members, so couldn't do it electronically even if we wanted ;) What I was getting at was whether you saw any of the above subsumed into a new members' list, or whether this is a completely new function that we don't currently offer. I'm actually thinking that we don't need a new list right now; we just need to actually use AFFS-Project more and publicise it more. Having checked the membership, I'm actually surprised the number of people subscribing to it - while not huge, when we first set it up we didn't get past 10 or something for ages. Cheers, Alex. _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
