[en] FSFLA News

[Beatriz Busaniche]

FSFLA News
Issue #5
December, 2005

Birth of FSFLA

During `5tas. Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre' (5th Regional
Free Software Days), taken place in Rosario, Argentina, the founding
members of FSFLA Free Software Foundation Latin America took the first
formal steps to the foundation's legal creation, joining the Free
Software Foundations network.

In the Founding Assembly, FSFLA's Administration Council elected
Federico Heinz as President, Alexandre Oliva as Secretary and Beatriz
Busaniche as Treasurer, determining the Executive Council of the new
organization.  The other Administration Council members are Enrique
A. Chaparro, Mario M. Bonilla, Fernanda G. Weiden and Juan José
Ciarlante.

The new organization's official launch counted with the presence of
the president of Free Software Foundation Europe, Georg Greve.

FSFLA is the fourth Free Software Foundation in the network, started
in 1985 with the Free Software Foundation founded by Richard
M. Stallman, later joined by Free Software Foundations Europe and
India.

Next steps

In the next few days, the FSFLA founding workgroup will present the
legal documents approved in the Assembly in Rosario to the Argentinian
authorities, which will get FSFLA's legal existence evaluation process
started.  This evaluation may take several months, and even require
changes to the bylaws approved in the Assembly.  The documents to be
presented to the authorities include the bylaws, a 3-year work plan
and the Foundation Minutes signed in Rosario.

Acknowledgments

The FSFLA Workgroup wishes to thank the support from the Free Software
community, especially `Grupo de Usuarios de Software Libre de la
Ciudad de Rosario' (Rosario Free Software User Group) and `Asociación
de Nuevas Tecnologías' (New Technologies Association), in charge of
organizing `V Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre', and to all the
people who joined us during `Jornadas', collaborating in the writing
of the founding documents for FSFLA.  This acknowledgment extends to
those who could not be present in Rosario, but that offered valuable
contributions in the FSFLA discussion mailing list.

FSFLA wishes to thank particularly the support and the trust placed on
us by the President of FSF Europe, Georg Greve, who accompanied us
during the FSFLA launch and was in charge of welcoming the new
organization into the FSF Network, in the name of them all.

We also wish to thank Aurélio A. Heckert by the design of FSFLA's
first logo.  His web site is at
http://gnosislivre.org/twiki/bin/view/Aurium/WebHome

Work groups

We remind those that wish to integrate the first work groups that you
can join them by sending an e-mail to info at fsfla.org with details
about the work group of your interest in the subject.  Those who would
like to join the work groups of translation and web design can write
us starting the subject with [translation] and [web site],
respectively.

Events

GNU/Linux day
Alexandre Oliva participated in GNU/Linux Day on November 26 this year
in Americana, state of São Paulo, Brazil.  FSFLA thanks the donation
offered by the organizers, who also corrected the event name from
Linux Day to GNU/Linux Day on the last minute.
http://www.portalcon.com.br/linuxday/

Federico Heinz in Mexico
Invited by `Oficina México, Centro América y Caribe' (Mexico, Central
America and Caribbean Office) de la `Fundación Heinrich Boell'
(Heirich Boell Foundation), the FSFLA elect President participates in
an intense week of work, from November 27 to December 3 in the Mexican
Federal District.  He has several scheduled appointments with various
government and academic sectors and social organizations, while he
participates in events to present the book "¿Un mundo patentado? La
privatización de la vida y el conocimiento" (A patented world?  The
privatization of life and knowledge) along with Silke Helfrich from
Boell Foundation, Alejandro Calvillo, Director of Greenpeace Mexico
and Silvia Ribeiro, investigator for the ETC Group.

Lacfree 2005

During the event, to take place December 5-8 in Recife and Olinda,
Brazil, a FSF Network meeting will take place counting with the
presence of delegates from FSF Europe, FSF India and FSF Latin
America.  Georg Greve (FSFE), G. Nagarjuna (FSFI), Federico Heinz,
Fernanda Weiden, Alexandre Oliva, Mario Bonilla and Beatriz Busaniche
(FSFLA) will all be present.

Free Software and Mobility Workshop in Ceará
On December 13, Alexandre Oliva will take part in the panel `Software
Livre e Mobilidade: Estamos rumo à convergência?' (Free Software and
Mobility: Are we towards a convergence?) and will present his lecture
`A Beautiful Mind Meets Free Software: Game Theory, Competition and
Cooperation'
http://www.larces.uece.br/wcslm/home.php


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