[en] FSFLA News Issue #2

[Fernanda G Weiden]

FSFLA News 
Issue #2
September 1st, 2005

Work in progress
More than 70 people are subscribed on the mailing list and are
participating in the discussions about the future internal organization
of FSFLA. If you want to acess the archives, or subscribe to the
mailing list, please do so at
https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfla-discusion 

The proposed objective is to develop a new draft of the internal
structure of FSFLA before the middle of September and define the legal
seat of FSFLA on the October 1st.

As planned, the first General Assembly of FSFLA will take place in
november at the "5tas. Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre" in
Rosario, Argentina. In this event, FSFLA will have a booth and will
participate in a couple of sessions. More info can be found at
http://www.ant.org.ar/jornadas/html/

Release Actions
FSFLA will have a monthly column in the Brazilian magazine PC Master.
This magazine is dedicated to Free Software and is one of the olders in
that country. Beginning next month, FSFLA will have a place to release
news about it activities and it sisters organisations, FSF, FSFE and
FSFI, and about Free Software in general.

Events
On the August 25th and 26th, Fernanda G Weiden participated in the “V
Congresso Nacional de Software Libre”, in Cochabamba, Bolivia. In the
ending session, Fernanda gave a talk to introduce the Free Software
Foundation Latin America.

Fernanda also went to “Congresso de Software Livre de Ourinhos”, giving
a talk about the same subject.

Meanwhile, Federico Heinz and Beatriz Busaniche have been in
Canterbury, England, participating in the Workshop Copy/South at the
Kent University. After that, Beatriz went to Dublin, where she had
working meetings with the team of IFSO (Irish Free Software
Organization). IFSO is a associated organisation of Free Software
Foundation Europe.