<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hej Virgil,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Maybe you should tell the group why 'another group' deserves a space instead of dissing on the Free Software Foundation Europe.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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'.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Don't take it personal. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I believe it's the same with booth space.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">We have these stickers: "don't complain, suggest what's better". I have some extra and will bring one to Fosdem for you :-)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Greetings,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Jasper</div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Jasper Nuyens <br>Managing Director, Linux Belgium <br><a href="http://www.linuxbe.com/" target="_blank">http://www.linuxbe.com</a> <br>Phone: +32 (0)2 747 47 01 <br>Fax: +32 (0)2 747 47 10<br>GSM: +32 (0)478 978967</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 12:31 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:virgilva@keemail.me" target="_blank">virgilva@keemail.me</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<br><div><br></div><div>Greetings FOSDEM people!</div><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Why are FSFE special then? European? Only 20 people are really FSFE members! Most are from one country, Germany!<br></div><br><div>Best wishes</div><div><br></div><div>Virgil<br></div><br> </div>
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