Ποιος θα ενδιαφερόταν να συμμετέχει στη συγγραφή του παρακάτω? -- Δέσποινα Μητροπούλου ΕΕΛ/ΛΑΚ Τηλ: 210 7474271 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Despoina Mitropoulou <des [ dot ] mitropoulou [ at ] eellak [ dot ] gr> Date: 2013/11/5 Subject: Re: FSFE / GFOSS introductions To: Karsten Gerloff <gerloff [ at ] fsfeurope [ dot ] org> Cc: Alexios Zavras <zvr [ at ] zvr [ dot ] gr>, Theodoros Karounos <karounos [ at ] eellak [ dot ] gr> Hi Karsten, Thank you so much for the reply and wishes, and Alexis thank you for the introductions. Our suggestion is to draft together a detailed policy proposal that will be submitted to the Vice-President of the European Commission, Neelie Kroes, about the preferential treatment of Open Source for SMEs in this project. If you agree we can create a googledoc and start collecting input. Also please feel free to recommend any other relevant organisation you believe would be interested in participating in this initiative. Kind Regards, -- Despina Mitropoulou GFOSS Tel:+30 210 7474271 2013/11/4 Karsten Gerloff <gerloff [ at ] fsfeurope [ dot ] org> > Hi Alexios, > > it was great to meet you in Edinburgh! > > On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 12:10:39AM +0200, Alexios Zavras wrote: > > Hi all, > > [I promised I'd send this earlier, but I was in Vienna > > and then got a cold that really made it hard] > > Now that's odd. I was also in Vienna three weeks ago, > and brought back a bad cold. Coincidence? ;-) > > > > introductions, all around: > > > > - Karsten is the President of Free Software Foundation Europe, > > a very nice guy, who is sorry for not getting back to you > > for the GFOSS affiliation to the FSFE :-) > > Absolutely. It's been sitting on my todo list for quite a while > now. My sincere apologies! > > > - Theodoros is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of GFOSS, > > a non-profit organization in Greece founded by Universities, > > Research Centers, etc., which promotes all things Open. > > (I was also somewhat involved with it before leaving Greece). > > Great to meet you, Theodoros. > > > > - Despoina is the super-efficient organiser in GFOSS, > > who keeps track of everything and always > > provides answers in a timely matter > > (and who celebrates her birthday today) > > Despoina, belated best wishes for your birthday! > > > > > > now that everybody knows everybody, down to business: > > > > Karsten, GFOSS wants to talk to FSFE (besides the affiliate status) > > about the European Commission press release on "European regions > > encouraged to offer SMEs vouchers of up to 10,000 to go digital" > > http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-916_en.htm > > Interesting stuff. I must admit that I hadn't seen this one > before. > > > They want to organize a feedback to the EC so that > > this initiative (and I assume other like it) > > also contain information on Free Software -- > > if not advocate its use outright. > > Yes, that sounds useful. > > This is an initiative by DIGIT, which is perhaps the most friendly > DG from our point of view. That's good. > > One of the pilots is in Extremadura, which happens to be one of > the first large-scale deployments of Free Software in schools that > I'm aware of -- they started in ca. 2001. > > How do we best take this forward? > > > > Best regards, > Karsten > -- > Karsten Gerloff [ ] <gerloff [ at ] fsfeurope [ dot ] org> > Free Software Foundation Europe [ ][ ][ ] [http://fsfe.org] > President | | +49 176 9690 4298 > Support software freedom! [http://fsfe.org/support] > > Free Software Foundation Europe e.V. is a German Verein registered > at the Registergericht Hamburg (VR 17030). > > > <210%207474271>