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I’m taking the chance to spread the word about a new initiative at the European level.

I paste there the content I received from Alix Cazenave in charge at the April organization, the main French association to promote Free Software.

I hope the invitation will be taken in consideration and Romanians will take some action to write to the people they elected or they will elect. Till now, I didn’t see any topic related to Open Source and Free Software in any Romanian political platform. Unfortunately.

Her is the message I received:

"

Dear colleagues,

I am a representative from association April, which is the main French
association for the promotion and defence of free software. I have met
some of you during the previous months.

I was contacted by Mr Cottigny’s assistant (French Member of the
European Parliament) about written declaration 46/2008 (see attachment -
I can provide you with translated versions in all EU languages).

Several members of the European Parliament have initiated a written
declaration in order to support free software. It aims at:
- having the EU support free software R&D;
- having the European Parliament switch its computer system to free
software.

About a hundred MEP’s have already signed the declaration, but a total
amount of 393 MEP signatures is required before september 25th. MEPs
will be able to sign the declaration during the next plenary session -
i.e. during week 39 (September II). A promotion operation will be
organized inside the European Parliament, in order to inform MEPs and
encourage them to sign.

Mr Cottigny’s assistant asked me to contact you so that you could help
and support this declaration. It would be very helpful if you could
email your MEPs and ask them to sign the declaration. In attachment you
may find the brief that was sent to MEPs by their colleagues to inform
them about free software.

Please let your members/friends know about this declaration, so that
they too can contribute to this free software promotion action.

Thank you in advance for the help you may provide !

Sincerely,

– Alix Cazenave Chargée de mission – April http://www.april.org/

"

I attached here the three documents received:
1. EN-European-Parliament-Written-Declaration.pdf
2. europarl-carteD46.pdf
3. why-choose-free-software.pdf