From: Gilad Ben-Yossef (gilad_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Tue 01 Apr 2003 - 13:58:19 IDT
Ira Abramov wrote:
> While Hamakor doesn't mention that in it's guidelines, the purpose it
> was created for is to act as a legal and financial body to represent
> activists. if you find a sponsor for your project and they need a
You are confusing 'reason' and 'purpose'. The purpose is to do whatever
we can for Free Software and Open Source in Israel as stated by the
guide lines. The reason we created this org is because we felt an
official body could help us further those causes.
> But more to the point, because of the above foggyness and my past
> disagreement with Oleg about "the ideology of Hamakor" I started making
> moves towards establishing an Israeli chapter of the FSF (more likely
> under the FSF Europe umbrella), including an Israeli savannah server
> "Arava" based on a hebrew sourceforge, but all this is too early to talk
> about and still in its diapers, plus my only current sponsor may bail out
> on me. I can't tell you more at the moment, but rest assured that there
> are forces on the move :)
I don't think we are "foggy" at all. We started Hamakor as a resource
for both Free Software and Open Source people, or factions, to utilize
and thus both are represented.
I wish you success Ira, as a registered member of the FSF :-) although I
also wish there could be a way to not needlesly waste resources by
creating two seperate bodies with all the overhead this entails. Are you
sure this is the right thing to do?
Regardless, let me know if there is any way me or HaMakor can help. That
"Arava" service sounds wonderful - if you need space for it the IBM soon
to be delivered Netfity server sounds like a perfect fit. Don't worry,
it'll runs Debian GNU/Linux :-)
Cheers,
Gilad.
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