[Fsfe-uk] Young Greens moving on FS

[Tom Chance]

Hello,

It seems that the Young Greens - the youth wing of the UK Green Party - may be 
starting a campaign on Free Software. I saw this in a section on campaigning 
in recent meeting report:

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Promote universities/individuals to switch from Microsoft to open source 
(non-copyright) software. Cheaper and better than buying from large 
monopoly. Campaign is beginning in Liverpool.
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I've contacted the Liverpool group to ask for more information, as well as to 
suggest they work with the AFFS on this. Hopefully we can persuade them to do 
something similar to the German 'Grune Jugend' in making Free Software (not 
OSS) advocacy a major part of their work. And hopefully we lend expertise in 
straightening out their wording (though I presume the text above isn't to be 
taken as a policy statement, nor a quick note from the meeting secretary!)

I'll post when I have more info, but I thought it was worth a quick "heads 
up" :-)

Regards,
Tom