What do I actually do?
ciaran
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06. enero 2006
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Sometimes, when I meet other activists, they ask me what I do, and I
never have a good answer. I usually say something vague about
building support for things among policital groups, and assisting
other campaigns that need help and that are doing things that
benefit free software, but then the person asks "Yeh, but
what's your day like?" ...but I don't have an average day to
describe.
A friend suggested using my blog to send a few notes about each day,
so I've taken it as my new year's resolution and here I am. There's
a load of mundane stuff as well, like any job, and internal
discussions, but here are some of the other things I did in the last
three days.
Wednesday
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Talking to different people about organising events in Belfast,
Dublin, and London. One large event is certainly happening in
Belfast in March, in IFSO we are
considering trying to organise a follow-up event for May in
Dublin, and I've been invited to give a talk in London at the
start of April so I'm looking into organising another event in
London to coicide with that. One idea was an international event
for Fellows.
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Some coordination work for a new part of the Fellowship site which
is not announced yet.
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Sent info
to the discussion list about the new GNU project for making a
Flash
player: Gnash.
On Thursday
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Got
the fsfe-ni
mailing list set up for Northern Ireland, put an entry in the
FSFE newsletter about it, and informed the Belfast GNU/Linux
users group.
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Gave some help to a group of people who are considering taking
over the GNU package that I
maintain: GNU acct.
I am looking to hand over to someone else because I am no longer
an active programmer.
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...and I made the hard decision that I will attend the GPLv3
launch conference. This means that, like anyone wanting to enter
the the USA, I will have to submit to being fingerprinted. A
second issue is that my government will be required to hand over a
lot of data about me to the government of the USA. The government of the USA has promised to keep
that data private, and to only use it for fighting terrorism,
but the ink was barely dry when they
were caught breaking that agreement. It seems to me
that the USA was a terrible choice of venue, but I have decided to go,
so I will now focus my thinking on making the most of this trip and the
conference. My expenses are being paid by the hosts.
Today (Friday)
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Interfacing and coordination between the European Commission, FSF,
and FSFE regarding the GPLv3 conference.
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Enquiring as to whether I have the papers etc. for travelling to
the USA. (I do.)
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Blogged about what I do :-)
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