I'm copying this message to libreplanet-discuss and to Alexandre Oliva since I think it's important for them to know this message too.
I'm very worried about the crowdfunding too. Don't worry, I *am* contributing by spreading the word about it, even though I hardly have the salary/wage to support it financially. My message is focused on the *possibility* to do things right from the beginning (by explaining that it's *being evaluated for RYF certification), and because if it's at least proven to work with free/libre system distributions, it allows the community to use it even in environments/situations that are hostile to free/libre software movement. I also have tried to counter a misinformation that is spread here in Brazil: That "Raspberry Pi works with free/libre system distributions", or that "Raspberry Pi is good for the free/libre software movement". And I also tried to convince people to buy Libre Tea Computer instead of Raspberry Pi. However, I was recently financially and accessibly limited to how many people I would be able to inform. From July 13th to 16th, an event/conference happened here in Brazil, called Fórum Internacional de Software Livre (FISL, "international forum of free/libre software") in Porto Alegre. Lot's of people go there, and there are lot's of "pro-open-source-only" talks there, and even some advertising "Raspberry Pi as free/libre software friendly". As I said: I was financially and accessibly limited to go to that event. Financially because it's hard to find free/libre software-friendly jobs here in the State of Santa Catarina, where I live, specially those not requiring programming skills (I'm not a programmer). I accept work overseas, but I haven't found such opportunity so far. I was accessibly limited because there were no caravans/groups near where I live to take me to the event. Big Mother agreed to pay the caravan/group travel expenses if I could find one nearby, but I couldn't. Perhaps we could start working on spreading representative persons of the free/libre software movement to attend these events, not just Stallman, Sullivan, and Gay. Oliva is one of such people but, as far as I know, he wasn't aware of Libre Tea Computer (we probably need to ask him this: does he participate on libreplanet-discuss mailing list?). The way I see it, we have lost a great opportunity to stand up for free/libre software.
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