2016-07-24 15:15 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton:
I followed the development of the EOMA68 Laptop for a long time and waited eagerly for the crowfunding-campaign. After the start of the campaign I regularly postet news on diaspora* and gnusocial and on the fsfe-de e-mail list and will do so until the end of the campaign.
thanks wolfgang, please do keep it up.
Ideas of places where I haven't seen it published, if you think that it's worth a try: Slashdot, SoylentNews, LWN.
(I posted the links to a few places as well, but don't have much time/energy left for the above).
I hope it helps. I wonder, why so few people of the free software movement support your campaign. I thouhgt, free hardware in combination with free software was one of the top whishes of the free software community.
the fsf is run by volunteers who are paid hourly: they're really *really* pressed and very understaffed, and many of them have other jobs so cannot work on fsf tasks outside of their (actual) paid hours. i'm leaving it with them to get the press release and so on out when they have available time.
I read Wolfgang's paragraph a bit differently... I think that Wolfgang wonders why there are not more pledges / purchasing orders from people *following* the FOSS/libre software; while Luke interprets that Wolfgang is complaining about people *leading* FSF*-related orgs (including Europe, Latin America, etc.; and other countries similar orgs like ANSOL in Portugal or April in France) are not promoting EOMA68 from their orgs as much as they could / should.
Or perhaps I am wrong and Luke did read Wolfgang's message correctly.
In any case I think that it's a bit of both... and if it was being promoted prominently by some orgs, specially FSF's Respects Your Freedom campaing, would probably give the campaing a big boost.
But hey, I am positive and I think that it's doing quite well at the moment :-)
Cheers.