(CC: me on replies as I'm not suscribed). Taking advantage of the recent debconf-es [1,2] which took place this weekend in the Creofonte technological center in Casar de Cáceres (Extremadura, Spain) the "Debian Spanish" organization has been funded with over 20 initial founding members. This organization has been created with some broad goals in mind mainly the development of the Debian project as well as Debian-developed operating systems and free sofware. However, it is not a developers-only organization as it tries to also cover users and their needs. The organization still needs to be approved by the Spanish Internal Affairs Ministry. Once this is done it could be also a way to collect donations for Debian at Spain (for those that can't place international orders and thus do them directly to SPI), to defend the Debian trademark [3] and to register the debian.es domain. Also, one of the the long term goals is to obtain non-for-profit status in Spain (which would allow for tax-deductible donations). On the other side, with the recent tide of things in some public administrations which are starting to be very Debian-focused (including Extremadura's public administration, which has produced Linex, and Andalucia's which has produced Guadalinex) this also provides them an "official" single point of contact regarding Debian. Useful for them when they want to discuss needs and wants and better than talking to DDs individually. I will try to translate the by-laws and post them here, if requested. Regards Javi PS: Note that this organization has been created related to the idea of baby-Debian organizations which was discussed in Debconf 3 recently: http://mako.yukidoke.org/talks/20030718-spi_workshop/spi_workshop_notes-20030718.txt [1] http://www.hispalinux.es/~amaya/debconf-es/ (spanish only) [2] Some pictures available at http://www.alobbs.com/album/debconf-es [3] Which is currently registered in Spain by a perspon unrelated to the Debian project. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200209/msg00057.html
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