From: Oleg Goldshmidt (pub_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Tue 01 Apr 2003 - 14:15:37 IDT
Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad_at_benyossef.com> writes:
> 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 :-)
And since my name was mentioned, I don't know how you interpreted our
exchange, Ira, but were I a board member of HaMakor I would vote for
support of the initiative.
>
> Cheers,
> Gilad.
>
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