[EuroPython] send out press release

Martijn Faassen faassen@vet.uu.nl
Thu, 14 Feb 2002 20:08:34 +0100


Laura Creighton wrote:
[avoid the word 'Free' in press releases for marketing reasons]

I think that this is a good point, and we'll attempt to avoid giving the
word 'Free' too prominent attention.

[snip]
> > Just an idea: one approach that was adopted at the European COmmission 
> > consists to speak about libre software and explain how this temr relates to 
> > free and open-source. Could we use that formulation ?
> 
> On the Wiki, yes, great wonderful.

Okay, hereby I declare that we can also use the phrase 'Libre Software'
as an alternative for 'open source software' in some contexts.

This all fits in with my theory that we can offend RMS freely if we 
like. Now only if we could fit in the word 'communism' in there somewhere
to really offend ESR.. Perhaps 'socialism' will do. :)

[snip lots of good questions about the European Commission]

As was already said, please do set up a team for this, and run it together
with Nicolas Pettiaux and whomever else is interested. See the teams page:

http://europython.zope.nl/wiki/ConferenceTeams

Regards,

Martijn