[FOSDEM] groups missing a booth because of FSFE

[Jasper Nuyens]

Hej Virgil,

Maybe you should tell the group why 'another group' deserves a space
instead of dissing on the Free Software Foundation Europe.
I'm not a part of the core team of Fosdem but helped out starting up in the
early days. Yet of all my speaking proposals over the years, not one has
been accepted. This time I proposed a talk about 'Tesla Hacking' which has
evolved now into the launching of a new opensource project 'FreedomEV'.
Still the chance for me to get on the Fosdem stage is small. Because it's
such a popular event and because there are so many great talks already.
Don't take it personal.

I believe it's the same with booth space.
But try to remain positive and optimistic and let our Fosdem Overlords
decide what's best, it worked out great like that, every time. Or - in the
other case - in true OpenSource fashion; fork the event and create one too
:-D

We have these stickers: "don't complain, suggest what's better". I have
some extra and will bring one to Fosdem for you :-)

Greetings,
Jasper
-- 
Jasper Nuyens
Managing Director, Linux Belgium
http://www.linuxbe.com
Phone: +32 (0)2 747 47 01
Fax: +32 (0)2 747 47 10
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On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 12:31 PM, <virgilva at keemail.me> wrote:

>
>
> Greetings FOSDEM people!
>
> One group, FSFE always have the biggest booth at FOSDEM.  Many volunteer
> groups rejected every year and FSFE has a booth big enough for 3 groups.
> Our project never got a booth at FOSDEM.
>
> People are talking about FSFE now, not the same group it was before 10
> years.  A business, staff are de-facto shareholders, censoring community
> initiative.  Many people founded other activist groups now and all deserve
> equal space.
>
> Why are FSFE special then?  European?  Only 20 people are really FSFE
> members!   Most are from one country, Germany!
>
> Best wishes
>
> Virgil
>
>
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