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Granted — it is all in French, it wasn’t national television, and it didn’t last long enough to cover many details. But it is all still worth boasting about: here are two minutes and fifty seconds of GNU/Linux Matters fame. During the RMLL 2008 in Mont-de-Marsan where we held a booth, a camera crew from FreeNewsTV, a French web TV channel, stopped by and interviewed the only one of us who spoke French.

(The video is a 26 MB Ogg file, viewable with VLC or any other decent video player.)

Given the hurried pace, the continuously moving camera, some disarming questions, and the speaker who consistently mis-pronounced every name he could read, it wasn’t such a bad performance after all. We’ll try hard to be interviewed in English, next time.

Mennecy, France (Sept 4, 2008) – The GNU/Linux Matters non-profit organization is extremely happy to release HonaLinux.org, PereidiNaLinux.org, DungLinux.org, and OtrymayLinux.org, four websites intended to become the homepage of the Linux operating system in Arabic, Russian, Vietnamese and Ukrainian.

By focusing on everyday users rather than software experts, the organization wishes to affect freedomware adoption at a wide scale. The websites feature concise, introductory information about the free operating system, favoring legibility over exhaustiveness.

The release of the four websites, which are translations of the English GetGNULinux.org, fits within the organization’s vision for a multilingual web advocacy movement. “We now have a mature, easy to use web translation system which will allow the rapid release of further translations”, said Gustavo Narea, General Secretary of the organization.

GNU/Linux Matters warmly invites community members of all languages to translate, improve, and link to its websites. “We are slowly making our way towards our objective of having one million Windows users go through our websites over one year”, expressed Olivier Cleynen, president of the non-profit. “With the coming of Animador, our web freedomware advocacy platform, participating should be even more enjoyable and exciting”, added Gustavo Narea.

The organization’s first step into the non-Western Internet was made possible thanks to the efforts of a few motivated participants from around the planet. With a small but growing community, and several additional projects about to be released, GNU/Linux Matters enthusiastically works its way to becoming the first web forefront for FLOSS communities.

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About GNU/Linux Matters:

A forefront actor of Internet marketing for software freedom, GNU/Linux Matters is a non-profit organization registered in France. Consisting of a small team of passionate members, it provides free software communities with high-quality, multi-lingual websites aimed at everyday computer users. Its main project, GetGNULinux.org (http://www.getgnulinux.org/), is focused on the Linux operating system.
Read more at http://www.gnulinuxmatters.org/

Contact:

Paris: Olivier Cleynen,     +33 (0)6 28 410 948     (French, English, German)
Madrid: Gustavo Narea,     +34 (0)6 29 247 034     (Spanish, English)
http://www.gnulinuxmatters.org/contact

Our organization has changed address, and slightly updated its bylaws. Although this is a formal announcement, there are no implications over our structure or activities —in practice, nothing has changed.

The legal address of the organization is now at 10 rue des Ormes, 91 540 Mennecy, France, off from Toulouse where we first established fifteen months ago.

During the (tedious) process, our bylaws have received a few modifications. As was discussed in our forum, we edited the procedure for general assemblies (once-yearly Association Committee meetings) and decision-making (internal voting process). Nothing else has changed. The change has been validated by formal committee vote on June 10th.

You can always download the bylaws at documents.gnulinuxmatters.org/bylaws. Please note that as per French law, only the bylaws in French are legally-binding.