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Public announcement of the creation of ANSOL, http://www.ansol.org/docs/lancamento.en.html (text version below)
Minutes of the second meeting of the founding members of ANSOL http://www.ansol.org/docs/acta2.en.html
Public announcement of the creation of ANSOL
Jaime E. Villate
The creation of the "[1]National Association for Free Software" (in Portuguese: "Associação 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, Loïc 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 Gonçalves, being interviewed for Portuguese National Television.
http://www.ansol.org/fotos/pct2001-Loic.jpg The vice-president of FSF-Europe, Loïc 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.
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