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activities related to Fellowship, FSFE and Free Software…
Vercors Libre : a natural park for Free Software
February 8th, 2008
Hello, this is an information that could eventually fit on fsfe’s events page… I don’t know, maybe someone will help me decide.
I live in and occasionnally work for the Parc Naturel du Vercors (in France), and we are organising events around Free Software around the different villages to let people know about Free Software.
We already made two of these events which were very interesting and gave a good show of Free Software in action to the audience. We are planning three more this winter and spring in the area… I’d like to present them on the FSFE website. My problem is that even if I’m a Fellow, I do not have any french material of the FSFE to produce. Now I know where the source documents are, but I’m not sure I’ll have time until the next event to translate some.
If you’re interested in looking at what it looks on the net, look at this page of the Parc du Vercors’ website, you can also have a small relation of the event on this page of the G3L website (G3L is an association of people spreading Free Software in our area, with some smart nerds capable of incredible things in xorg.conf :-). Last time we installed 3 GNU/linux system, including one on the mayor’s laptop !
My personal count at this time for 2008 is : 10 penguins 🙂
Go on free.
Meeting with Rainer Kersten on the 10th of January 2008
January 14th, 2008
Hi all fellows,
two years after becoming a Fellows I found something that was of interest for this Blog ! And that’s pretty much of something since I had the pleasure to host Rainer Kersten, the one that runs FSFE’s Düsseldorf office.
On his quantic and probabilistic way between Spain and Germany, his car WayOfLife lead him to my home, in the mountains above Grenoble. You can see it in front of the house :
Rainer’s customized Way Of Life as he says.
He arrived in the afternoon after many SMS written while following the many curves of the road, after having thought I was laughing at him while recommending passing through Die (wich didn’t reflect any bad intention from me, but the actual name of a town ;-).
It’s always a very nice experience to meet people you only know by some of their acts, and you increase the chances things turn right when the common thing is about Free Software, because you know each other will have something to do with Freedom.
We had many talks, and surprisingly we talked about FSFE in the end, after a few hours of discussion ! Especially about other people he personnaly nows and I don’t (easy, I only know one personnaly now : him :-). He gave me the pin every Fellow that had met someone from the office has, and this small object already gave many occasions to talk about FSFE.
Finally he stayed home for the night, and we were able to share a bottle of Rioja that he brought back from Spain, and an excerpt of French food science consisting of some duck and ravioles (no typo here).
The morning after, he gave a wonderful present to the kids (and in some way the father too) offering me to drive the children to school in his car wayoflife :
Our arrival to school was remarked as you may imagine !
Thank you for visiting me Rainer, it was a good time. I hope I’ll be able to get occasions to get closer of the FSFE people in the coming times.
Michel