GNU-bizz / education Re: GNUBiz / experiences

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Jeremiah Foster a écrit :

> Dear Anton, Henrik and others interrested in GNU Business,
>
> Glad to hear people taking up this issue. I think this is the last 
> frontier for adoption of Free Software; small business and local 
> government adoption. While there seems to be considerable government 
> adoption in some countries, like Brazil, there ought to be more, 
> simply because a country's information is too important. Citizens 
> should not be held hostage by large corporations that are undemocratic 
> and do not have the interests of citizens at heart.
>
> Small business can benefit from free software and lower its costs for 
> IT in general. But it lacks competency. We ought to support small 
> businesses in numbers large enough to assure small businesses that 
> there is a reasonable alternative to Microsoft. This means hackers 
> need to develop business models, support procedures, customer service, 
> and marketing messages to reach the small business world through the 
> channels they use.
>
> This means, and market research supports this, that we need more than 
> advocacy, we need a tangible alternative.
>
> I think the idea for a cooperative is an excellent one. It would allow 
> groups and individuals an opportunity to communicate and share 
> experiences. And I agree that it ought not to interfere with 
> consultancies or individuals who are earning their living supporting 
> Free Software. Rather we ought to support these people somehow, so 
> that a local entity can grow vendor independence yet have access to 
> global resources, like a cooperative.
>
> My personal goal is to develop my small company into a firm that sells 
> support and hosting, gives away software, and conducts itself 
> according to GNU Biz principles:
>
> http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/gnubiz-disc/2000-December/000014.html
>
> As a small business owner trying to establish himself in the 
> marketplace I would welcome a cooperative where I might share my 
> approach to marketing free software to other entities. What works, 
> what is needed, how can someone who believes in the social good 
> created by Free Software contribute and earn a living? I am willing to 
> spend time, energy and resources developing such a cooperative.


I can help too.

I'm not a developper for the moment but I can, I want and I must learn 
to create an numeric grid for hardware mix in visual trance.

Even i will propose it in Paris in september, my project won't be useful 
for industries, nor the Broadcast which - at the contrary - wants to 
make people asleep. So I won't find any compagny to develop it for me, 
nor cross their licences with all the patents I will met... to take the 
control of my video center (with debian).

I've understood the problem in 2003, so I've joined and help the 
community with the ffii directly. Without knowing anything about Linux, 
even I've programmed for my studies in the 80s. But it can be a chance.

I'm a visualizer, so I make design, videos, and performances in real time.

But also an educative one: I intend to make a video about the OS Linux 
and it's free world to learn for myself first. With synthesis pictures, 
I want to make it easy for people to undertand the past, the present and 
the possible overtures of this tool. It can be useful for newbies like 
me. I will be helped in this project by the President of Abul, a french 
association of free software in Bordeaux. I will need to learn what's 
happened since the begining. A hard but extraordinary job.

In translating some texts from rms, I've arleady learnt a lot. But my 
curiosity will be satisfied when I will be able to make it. It can take 
a long time, but the project is begun.


M.