Meeting of FSFE's Spanish Team in Miraflores de la Sierra
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Saturday 04 March 2006
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Thanks to snow chaos in Munich, I spent most of yesterday on planes
and airports to finally get to the beautiful Spanish town Miraflores
de la Sierra, home of FSFE's Spanish associate organisation, the
Free Knowledge
Foundation (FKF) who organised today's open
meeting of the Spanish Team of the FSFE.
The meeting was organised and hosted by Pablo Machon, FSFE's Spanish coordinator, and
there were around 24 people at the meeting from different parts of
Spain, including Jose Marchesi and others of GNU Spain, Xavier Reina and many
others.
After a couple of introductory words by Pablo, I explained a little
bit about the Free Software Foundations, the global vision and
structure, how Free Software Foundation Europe came into being, and
what considerations went into its design. The focus was on giving an
idea of the overall context of the Spanish Team and its activities,
trying to give an idea of how FSFE functions and how to get
involved.
Pablo and the rest of the Team then started to identify and
classify obstacles to Free Software adoption and spreading in Spain,
and discussing the setup of working groups to address them. A brief
introduction of the Fellowship then ended the official part of the
meeting.
A little more than half of the group that had participated in the
meeting then went on to continue discussions over extensive lunch,
after which I briefly enjoyed one of my personal favorites in terms of
cultural achievements: Siesta.
