It’s all about communication
About one week ago the new Fellowship web page was launched. It’s a great improvement over the old one. Finally we have a first-class blogging platform, a first class wiki and a planet to aggregate all weblogs of FSFE’s Fellows. I think this components already show that communication (blogs, planet) and collaboration (wiki) is an essential part of the Fellowship. Beside increasing FSFE’s financial independence and political weight the Fellowship always aimed to bring Free Software supporters together and offer them a place to exchange ideas and collaborate on Free Software activities.
But the Fellowship offers even more ways to collaborate and communicate. There are mailing lists for various languages and regional Fellowship groups, there is a Jabber server with multi-user chats (MUC), there are IRC channels and there are even Fellowship meetings for real life contacts. I always thought that this infrastructure was not as visible as it should be. So as one of my contribution to the new web page I helped to create the communicate-page which gives an overview of all these options.
Just take a look at it. Maybe you will find some mailing lists or chat rooms you are interested in. With this web page in place I hope more Fellows will know an use the various communication channels.
Tags: fellowship, FSFE




Thanks for the commuincate-page! Could you also add the Fellowship mailinglist for the Rhein-Main (https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/rhein-main) area? Thanks!
You might want to fix the link for the discussion mailing list – it points to the designers list currently. Perhaps we should make the Wiki pages nicer for things like lists of local groups: I might take a look at the built-in search options to improve that situation.
@Guido and Paul: Thank you for your comments! I have fixed the link to the discussion mailing list and added the Rhein-Main list.
@Paul: Yes, the wiki page with the list of the local groups could definitely be nicer. It would be great if you have some time to look into this!
Thank you for creating this page, Björn. It was very much needed! We should also find some way of linking to it from the index of the Fellowship web site, I mean from the text.
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