[Discussioni] Associazione nazione per il software libero in Portugal : ANSOL

[raphael calvelli]

Eccoli in Portogallo, chi è membro di Assoli potrebbe mandargli 
congratulazioni.

http://www.ansol.org/ansol.en.html 
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              Public announcement of the creation of ANSOL

                               Jaime E. Villate


    The creation of the "[1]National Association for Free Software" (in
    Portuguese: "AssociaÁ“o Nacional para o Software Livre"), ANSOL, was
    made on Friday October 12th, at 2001's edition of [2]Oporto,
    Technological City, in the northern Portuguese city of Oporto. The
    announcement was made by a group of free software advocates who have
    been working during the last months towards the participation of
    Portugal in the recently created [3]Free Software Foundation Europe.

    The association will be a non-profit organization committed to the
    promotion, development, research and study of Computing Freedom and
    its socio-political, cultural and technological implications. A [4]Web
    site for the association has been created, and a first draft of its
    [5]bylaws has been written. The initiative has awakened the interest
    of free software enthusiasts in Portugal, who are discussing in the
    [6]association's mailing list the schedule for the first General
    Assembly at which the governing boards will be elected.

    [7]Oporto, Technological City is a Free Software event opened to the
    public, sponsored and organized by Oporto's City Hall and the School
    of Engineering of the University of Oporto. It was started last year
    by Raul Oliveira, Jaime Villate and Nuno Faria, who are also among the
    group involved in the creation of ANSOL. This year the event consisted
    of an exhibition by Institutions and Companies that develop and work
    with Free Software, a GNU/Linux Installation Party and a series of
    lectures (more photos available at [8]this site); among the special
    guests invited to deliver lectures were Bradley Kuhn, vice-president
    of the Free Software Foundation, LoÔc Dachary, vice-president of the
    Free Software Foundation Europe, and Alberto Martins, the Portuguese
    Minister of State Reform and Public Administration. The event was also
    attended, among many other local public figures, by the Mayor of
    Oporto, Nuno Cardoso (whose office undertook the organization of the
    event) and the Portuguese Minister of Science and Technology, Mariano
    Gago, who gave a press conference at the event.

    The event was also a good opportunity for the founding members of the
    association to meet and exchange ideas with the vice-presidents of the
    Free Software Foundation and the Free Software Foundation Europe.


URLs

    1. http://www.ansol.org/ansol.en.html
    2. http://www.cidadetecnologica.org/
    3. http://www.fsfeurope.org/
    4. http://www.ansol.org/ansol.en.html
    5. http://www.ansol.org/docs/estatutos.en.html
    6. http://listas.ansol.org/mailman/listinfo/ansol-geral
    7. http://www.cidadetecnologica.org/
    8. http://reinolinux.fe.up.pt/fpct/

Photographs:

    http://www.ansol.org/fotos/pct2001-miguelg.jpg
         ANSOL's member, Miguel GonÁalves, being interviewed for Portuguese
         National Television.

    http://www.ansol.org/fotos/pct2001-Loic.jpg
         The vice-president of FSF-Europe, LoÔc Dachary, speaks about Free
         Software organizations throughout the world, at "Oporto,
         Technological City".

    http://www.ansol.org/fotos/pct2001-MGago.jpg
         The Portuguese Minister of Science and Technology and the Mayor of
         Oporto (center) visit the event with some officers from the School
         of Engineering of the Univ. of Oporto, escorted by organizers Jaime
         Villate and Raul Oliveira (left).

    http://www.ansol.org/fotos/pct2001-fsf.jpg
         The vice-president of the FSF, Bradley Kuhn, and some members of
         ANSOL at the FSF booth.