Hi Paul,
Am Donnerstag 02 Mai 2019 21:45:40 schrieb Paul Boddie:
I would also encourage the FSFE leadership to use venues like this list to more fully engage with the community, even when this involves encountering dissent.
doing a rough count on my personal archive which starts 2016: There are about 1500 posts in this discussion list and I count about 350 from people that are in the main e.V. which is the highst official organ in the FSFE. So I'll estimate 20% of posts here from the "leadership".
Personally I've encountered some criticism and I experience FSFE very open to finding ways of how to improve. To me some criticism was not constructive. Thus I think that FSFE must limit its time to deal with criticism that is repeating or non-constructive. We certainly have to respond to it from time to time so that others know that loud voices may not be right (as like in other part of the public life) and point to the information we already publish.
Also we shall spend more time on the topics were we can advance Free Software in society according to our constitution. Our newsletters and other articles are full of hints that we need to spread and explain to more people. I believe that most our supporters are supporting us because FSFE is pragmatic about what we can do (and this includes limiting the energy spending on "internal politics").
To make an example: I found some of your articles on mobile computing with Free Software helpful, we could see if we collect information about this more systematically. To include new "fair" approaches like the Shift-phones or LineageOS-MicroG on used phones. If some folks are interested in this a group of volunteers within FSFE can do a lot of useful things.
Best Regards, Bernhard