Summary of KDE 4.2 Release Party in Zurich

[Ian Monroe]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> *
> At this event I had the pleasure to meet Shane Coughlan from the FSFE
> (official title "Freedom Task Force Coordinator" [1]). Shane is
> involved in the Software Conservancy and expressed his great interest
> in helping us with getting things done with the organization. Shane
> was extremely friendly and appeared to really want to help us in any
> possible ways to "get things going". In particular he explained that
> there are ways to solve the issues with getting financial advances for
> planned travels that had been a concern for us.
>
> Shane offered solutions to get around this and other problems. He
> explained that he is "very well connected" with lawyers around the
> world, which could be an important asset to us. As I am not an expert
> in financial and business matters, I did invite him to subscribe to
> this mailing list and participate directly in the discussions around
> the Conservancy. I hope this is in your interest too.

Well that's great to hear. I think we're making the right decision.

Ian