Re: Setting up a well-funded Digital Rights campaign organisation

>Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 03:40:03 +0100 (BST)
>From: Martin Keegan <[email protected]>
>If they're successful in getting enough financial support, I'd like to
>propose turning over CDR's cash (only six hundred quid left) and the
>limited company (potentially more useful, having a seat on the European
>Digital Rights organisation) to them; I'd particularly appreciate feedback
>from readers of this list, out of which CDR grew, on the advisability of
>the latter two actions. 

sounds good to me - also (and for once, I'm not joking), we could use that
600 quid to sign up (say) 10 more people (at 5 quid a month, for a year =
60 quid) to the pledgebank list. it's looking fairly healthy at the moment
(and has another 5 months or so to run) but might provide a useful boost at
some later point..?

>Philip Hunt, zen19725-1HOZaDBbGgxaa/[email protected]:
>1. Is the idea to set up a new organisation, separate to FFII? It seems to
me 
>that FFII has done a good job with the software patents directive, and it's
>not obvious to me what the benefits of a new separate organisation would be.

- all completely unofficial/ hypothetical of course, but i'd suspect that
one of this new organisation's funded activists would most likely be FFII's
Rufus Pollock - and if this were the case, FFII could also benefit from him
not having to seek gainful employment the rest of the time...