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FSU - Free Software Union

The FSU is a democratic organization dedicated to the free software community. It provides all users, developers, and enthusiasts of free software membership in a voting decision making body. It provides resources, manpower, and community feedback for voter endorsed project implementation. By providing guidelines and tools for development to produce consistent and inter-operable software environment, FSU gives authors guarantee of wide acceptance and support.

6 Apr 1997 - Free Software Task List is started!
31 Oct 1996 - RESULTS OF ELECTIONS ARE IN!
31 Oct 1996 - THE CHARTER HAS BEEN APPROVED!
26 Sept 1996 - Our first general membership drive is on!
Here's our announcement, a call for Free Software Lovers to Unite!

FSU Organization Site Contents

Status - Current state of the organization, official "Status Updates", announcements, and press releases.
What is the FSU?
Register! - Become a registered Free Software user, developer, or enthusiast! Gain a vote on issues, and if you want help on community projects!
FAQ - FSU Frequently Asked Questions
Votes - Executive decisions and positions of the FSU. Voting page for FSU memebers.
Members - FSU member information database.
Join List - here also you can join the main mailing list.
Archives of the mailing lists
- Current mailing lists
  - HTML
  - GZipped mailbox format
- The first (FSLU) mailing list (inactive)
  - HTML
  - Mailbox format (GZipped -- 665667 bytes)
Contacts - How to contact the FSU.
Charter - The FSU Charter - How we work.
Reaction - Some initial reaction to FSU and it's founder's clarifications of our purpose.
FSF vs. FSU - Statement clarifying the differences between the FSU and the FSF.
All FSU web pages in tar.gz format - CVS version controled, so feel free to submit your own improvements (database pages not included).
Required reading
- Definitions and categorization of free software

FSU Technical Solutions Group Contents

Contrib - Member Contributed Information and Materials
- The FSU Widget set and GUI Toolkit Page - Containing links and descriptions of all major GUI development libraries. By Robin Smidsroed
- The GUI Toolkit/Framework Page by Andy Tai.
- Beginners Guide to OpenDoc, CORBA, GNUstep, Fresco, SOM and other related technologies of interest to FSU. Links to many reference sites. Written by Braddock Gaskill (braddock@braddock.com).
- Free Software Union Web Page Management How-To describes how the FSU web pages are written and maintained. By Braddock Gaskill. Submitted 20 September 1996.
- Miracle Design Specification Document Version 0.1 - A functional design of a GUI visual-based development application. Written by Michel Selten (mitch@il.ft.hse.nl). Submitted 17 Sept 1996
- Interface Design Specification Document Version 0.1 - A partially complete proposed look-and-feel standard. Written by Michel Selten (mitch@il.ft.hse.nl). Submitted 17 Sept 1996

FSU Free Software Task List

Status - Latest News, Announcements, and Press Releases about the Free Software Task List.
Task List - The current Free Software Task List
How-To - How-To contribute to and use the Free Software Task List.
Mailing List - How to (un)subscribe and view archives of our group mailing list.
Contacts
FSF Task List - See Also the Free Software Foundation's task list.
Feedback - Send mail to fsu-fstl@fslu.org.

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